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.
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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1):
Aux Italiens by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) ,
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 ,
Othello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare ,
Popping Corn by Anonymous ,
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 ,
Widow Machree by Samuel Lover ,
Widow Malone by Charles Lever