Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IX. Tragedy: Humor. 1904. | | | | Humorous Poems: IV. Ingenuities: Oddities | | Ode to the Human Heart | | Laman Blanchard (1803–1845) |
| | | BLIND Thamyris, and Blind Mæonides, | Milton. | |
| Pursue the triumph and partake the gale! | Pope. | |
| Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees, | Shakespeare. | |
| To point a moral or adorn a tale. | Johnson. | |
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| Full many a gem of purest ray serene, | Gray. | 5 |
| Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears, | Tennyson. | |
| Like angels’ visits, few and far between, | Campbell. | |
| Deck the long vista of departed years. | ? | |
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| Man never is, but always to be blessed; | Pope. | |
| The tenth transmitter of a foolish face, | Savage. | 10 |
| Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest, | Pope. | |
| And makes a sunshine in the shady place. | Spenser. | |
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| For man the hermit sighed, till the woman smiled, | Campbell. | |
| To waft a feather or to drown a fly, | Young. | |
| (In wit a man, simplicity a child,) | Pope. | 15 |
| With silent finger pointing to the sky. | ? | |
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| But fools rush in where angels fear to tread, | Pope. | |
| Far out amid the melancholy main; | Thomson. | |
| As when a vulture on Imaus bred, | ? | |
| Dies of a rose in aromatic pain. | Pope. | 20 | | | |
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