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

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The Exchange by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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):
Among the Heather by William Allingham , Aux Italiens by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) , Ca' the Yowes by Isabel Pagan , Cooking and Courting by Anonymous , Doris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph Munby , Duncan Gray Cam' Here to Woo by Robert Burns , How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover , I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling , I'm Not Myself at All by Samuel Lover , Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel Lover , Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Anonymous , Love's Logic by Anonymous , Othello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare , Popping Corn by Anonymous , Rory O'More; or, All for Good Luck by Samuel Lover , Story of the Gate by T.H. Robertson , Sweet Meeting of Desires: From 'The Angel in the House' by Coventry Patmore , The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell , The Earl o' Quarterdeck: A New Old Ballad by George MacDonald , The Friar of Orders Gray by Thomas Percy , The Hermit: From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith , The Laird o' Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne , The Night-piece by Robert Herrick , The Siller Croun by Susanna Blamire , Widow Machree by Samuel Lover , Widow Malone by Charles Lever