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

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Rosalynd's Complaint by Thomas Lodge

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.

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Listen next episodes of The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1):
A Spinster's Stint by Alice Cary , Among the Heather by William Allingham , An Opal by Ednah Procter Clarke Hayes , 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 , Blest as the Immortal Gods by Sappho , Ca' the Yowes by Isabel Pagan , Caprice by William Dean Howells , Comin' Through the Rye by Robert Burns , 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 , Doris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph Munby , Duncan Gray Cam' Here to Woo by Robert Burns , Francesca da Rimini: From the 'Divina Commedia: Inferno' by Dante Alighieri , Golden Eyes by Rufinus , Green Grow the Rashes O by Robert Burns , Her Letter by Bret Harte , How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover , I Dreamt I Saw Great Venus by Bion , I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling , If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please by Robert Graham of Gartmore , 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 , Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel Lover , Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Love in the Valley by George Meredith , Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Anonymous , Love's Logic by Anonymous , Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley , My Eyes! How I Love You by John Godfrey Saxe , O Swallow, Swallow, Flying South: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson , Othello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare , Perfume by Edmund William Gosse , Phillida and Corydon by Nicholas Breton , Popping Corn by Anonymous , Rory O'More; or, All for Good Luck by Samuel Lover , Sly Thoughts by Coventry Patmore , Smile and Never Heed Me by Charles Swain , Somebody by Anonymous , Song: From 'The Miller's Daughter' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson , Song of the Milkmaid: From 'Queen Mary' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson , Sonnet Upon a Stolen Kiss by George Wither , 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 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 Hermit: From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith , 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 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 Siller Croun by Susanna Blamire , The Telltale by Elizabeth Akers , The Whistle by Robert Story , Thoughts on the Commandments by George Augustus Baker , Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? by Anonymous , Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by Robert Burns , Widow Machree by Samuel Lover , Widow Malone by Charles Lever