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):
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 ,
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 ,
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 ,
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 ,
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 ,
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 ,
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: 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 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 ,
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's Complaint by Thomas Lodge ,
Sly Thoughts by Coventry Patmore ,
Smile and Never Heed Me by Charles Swain ,
Somebody by Anonymous ,
Song by Sir Charles Sedley ,
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 ,
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 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 (On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully) by John James Piatt ,
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe ,
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington ,
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