Portia's Picture: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)

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The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of famous and influential love poems relating to such topics as admiration; love's nature; love's beginnings; and wooing and winning. It also includes an introductory essay by American poet John Vance Cheney (1848-1922). Summary by Tomas Peter.

Listen next episodes of The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1):
A Budget of Paradoxes by John Martley , A Fiction: How Cupid Made a Nymph Wound Herself with His Arrow by 'A.W.' , A Gage d'Amour by Austin Dobson , A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney , A Maiden's Ideal of a Husband: From 'The Contrivances' by Henry Carey , A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne , A Song by Thomas Carew , A Spinster's Stint by Alice Cary , A Violet in Her Hair by Charles Swain , A Vision of Beauty by Ben Jonson , Ah, How Sweet: From 'Tyrannic Love,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by John Dryden , Among the Heather by William Allingham , An Experience and a Moral by Frederick Swartwout Cozzens , An Opal by Ednah Procter Clarke Hayes , At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray , Atalanta's Race: From 'The Earthly Paradise' by William Morris , Athulf and Ethilda by Sir Henry Taylor , Aux Italiens by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) , Behave Yoursel' Before Folk by Alexander Rodger , Belinda: From 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope , Black and Blue Eyes by Thomas Moore , Blest as the Immortal Gods by Sappho , Blue Eyes by John Keats , Ca' the Yowes by Isabel Pagan , Caprice by William Dean Howells , Comin' Through the Rye by Robert Burns , Constancy by Sir John Suckling , Cooking and Courting by Anonymous , Cupid and Campaspe: From 'Alexander and Campaspe,' Act III. Sc. 5 by John Lyly , Cupid Swallowed by Leigh Hunt , Dinna Ask Me by John Dunlop , Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew , Doris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph Munby , Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes: From 'The Forest' by Ben Jonson , Duncan Gray Cam' Here to Woo by Robert Burns , Eros Is Missing by Meleager , Francesca da Rimini: From the 'Divina Commedia: Inferno' by Dante Alighieri , Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller , Golden Eyes by Rufinus , Green Grow the Rashes O by Robert Burns , Her Guitar by Frank Dempster Sherman , Her Letter by Bret Harte , Her Likeness by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , Hero's Beauty: From the First Sestiad of 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe , How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover , I Dreamt I Saw Great Venus by Bion , I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden by Percy Bysshe Shelley , I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling , If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please by Robert Graham of Gartmore , If It Be True That Any Beauteous Thing by Michelangelo , I'm Not Myself at All by Samuel Lover , Kate Temple's Song by Sir James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk , Kisses by William Strode , Kissing's No Sin by Anonymous , Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller , Kitty of Coleraine by Charles Dawson Shanly , Life by Lizzie M. Little , Light by Francis W. Bourdillon , Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel Lover , Love and Woman: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act IV. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare , Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Love Dissembled: From 'As You Like It,' Act III. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare , Love: From 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe , Love: From the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott , Love: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare , Love in the Valley by George Meredith , Love Is a Sickness by Samuel Daniel , Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Anonymous , Love Not Me for Comely Grace by Anonymous , Love Scorns Degrees: From 'The Mountain of the Lovers' by Paul Hamilton Hayne , Lovely Mary Donnelly by William Allingham , Love's Logic by Anonymous , Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley , Love's Silence by Sir Philip Sidney , My Choice by William Browne , My Eyes! How I Love You by John Godfrey Saxe , My Lady by Dante Alighieri , My Sweetheart's Face by John Allan Wyeth , O, Do Not Wanton with Those Eyes by Ben Jonson , O, Fairest of the Rural Maids! by William Cullen Bryant , O Mistress Mine: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare , O, Saw Ye the Lass? by Richard Ryan , O Swallow, Swallow, Flying South: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson , On a Girdle by Edmund Waller , On Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster Sherman , On the Road to Chorrera by Arlo Bates , Othello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare , Perfume by Edmund William Gosse , Phillida and Corydon by Nicholas Breton , Phillis Is My Only Joy by Sir Charles Sedley , Philomela's Ode (That She Sung in Her Arbor) by Robert Greene , Popping Corn by Anonymous , Rory O'More; or, All for Good Luck by Samuel Lover , Rosalynd by Thomas Lodge , Rosalynd's Complaint by Thomas Lodge , She Is Not Fair to Outward View by Hartley Coleridge , She Walks in Beauty: From 'Hebrew Melodies' by Lord Byron , Sly Thoughts by Coventry Patmore , Smile and Never Heed Me by Charles Swain , Somebody by Anonymous , Song by Mark Akenside , Song by Sir Charles Sedley , Song by Walther von der Vogelweide , Song: From 'The Miller's Daughter' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson , Song of the Milkmaid: From 'Queen Mary' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson , Sonnet by George Chapman , Sonnet Upon a Stolen Kiss by George Wither , Spring by Meleager , Story of the Gate by T.H. Robertson , Sweet Meeting of Desires: From 'The Angel in the House' by Coventry Patmore , Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love by George, Lord Lyttelton , The Annoyer by Nathaniel Parker Willis , The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington by Anonymous , The Brookside by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton , The Chess-board by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) , The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell , The Dule's I' This Bonnet o' Mine (Lancashire Dialect) by Edwin Waugh , The Earl o' Quarterdeck: A New Old Ballad by George MacDonald , The Exchange by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , The First Kiss by Thomas Campbell , The Friar of Orders Gray by Thomas Percy , The Girl of Cadiz by Lord Byron , The Hermit: From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith , The Irish Spinning-Wheel by Alfred Perceval Graves , The Kiss by Robert Herrick , The Laird o' Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne , The Little Milliner by Robert Buchanan , The Little Red Lark by Alfred Perceval Graves , The Love-Knot by Nora Perry , The Low-Backed Car by Samuel Lover , The Milking-Maid by Christina Georgina Rossetti , The Night-piece by Robert Herrick , The Nymph's Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh , The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe , The Plaidie by Charles Sibley , The Shepherd and the King by Robert Greene , The Siller Croun by Susanna Blamire , The Telltale by Elizabeth Akers , The Whistle by Robert Story , The White Rose (Sent by a Yorkish Lover to His Lancastrian Mistress) by Anonymous , Thoughts on the Commandments by George Augustus Baker , Three Loves by Lucy H. Hooper , To a Lady Admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph , To a Lady (On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully) by John James Piatt , To Dianeme by Robert Herrick , To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe , To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington , To the Princess Lucretia by Torquato Tasso , Triumph of Charis by Ben Jonson , Verses Written in an Album by Thomas Moore , Vision of a Fair Woman, from the Ancient Erse of Elizabeth A. Sharp's 'Lyra Celtica' , Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing by William Browne , When Will Love Come? by Pakenham Beatty , Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes by Robert Herrick , Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? by Anonymous , Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by Robert Burns , Why? by Mary Louise Ritter , Widow Machree by Samuel Lover , Widow Malone by Charles Lever , Wishes for the Supposed Mistress by Richard Crashaw