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

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

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The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of famous and influential love poems relating to such topics as cautions and complaints; lovers; love's power; and wedded love. Summary by Tomas Peter.


A Christmas Scene (or, Love in the Country) by Thomas Osborne Davis

A Renunciation by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford

A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter

A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous

A Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne Procter

Adam Describing Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VIII by John Milton

Adam to Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton

Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion

Affaire d'Amour: For E.W.W. by Margaret Deland

Alexis, Here She Stayed by William Drummond

An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley

Answer to Master Wither's Song, 'Shall I, Wasting in Despair' by Ben Jonson

Beauty by Lord Edward Thurlow

Bedouin Love-Song by Bayard Taylor

Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore

Brutus and Portia: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

Charlie Machree by William J. Hoppin

Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story

Come into the Garden, Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Come, Rest in This Bosom: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore

Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson

Constancy by Anonymous

Curfew Must Not Ring To-night by Rose Hartwick Thorpe

Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly

Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley

Echoes by Thomas Moore

Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale

Fetching Water from the Well by Anonymous

First Love: From 'Don Juan,' Canto I by Lord Byron

Fly to the Desert, Fly with Me: Song of Nourmahal in 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore

Forever Unconfessed by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Forget Thee? by John Moultrie

'Full Many a Glorious Morning': Sonnet XXXIII by William Shakespeare

Ganging To and Ganging Frae by Eliza Cook

Give Me More Love or More Disdain by Thomas Carew

Hebrew Wedding: From 'The Fall of Jerusalem' by Henry Hart Milman

Hesperia by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hope Deferred by Anonymous

I Saw Two Clouds at Morning by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald Heber

In a Gondola by Robert Browning

In Twos by William Channing Gannett

John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns

Keats's Last Sonnet by John Keats

Kissing Her Hair by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Laodamia by William Wordsworth

Last Night by Christian Winther

Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds: Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare

Let Not Woman E'er Complain by Robert Burns

Like a Laverock in the Lift by Jean Ingelow

Lines to an Indian Air: Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lochinvar (Lady Heron's Song): From 'Marmion,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott

Lord Walter's Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love by Robert Browning

Love by Thomas Kibble Hervey

Love in the Winds by Richard Hovey

Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous

Love's Blindness: Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare

Love's Young Dream: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore

Meeting at Night by Robert Browning

Minstrels' Marriage-Song: From 'Oella: A Tragical Interlude' by Thomas Chatterton

My Ain Wife by Alexander Laing

My Beautiful Lady by Thomas Woolner

My Dear and Only Love by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose

My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay

My Love by James Russell Lowell

My Love (Her Portrait) by Russell Powell Jacoby

My Sweet Sweeting: From a MS. Temp. Henry VIII by Anonymous

My True-Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sidney

My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns

Not at All, or All in All: From 'Merlin and Vivien' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton

O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey

On the Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Palabras Cariñosas (Spanish Air) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Paulina's Appeal: From 'Polyeucte' by Pierre Corneille

Possession by Bayard Taylor

Possession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

Renouncement by Alice Meynell

Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore

Rivalry in Love by William Walsh

Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor

Sally in Our Alley by Henry Carey

Serenade: From 'The Spanish Student' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Seven Times Three: Love by Jean Ingelow

She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth

Si Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence Stedman

Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

So Sweet Love Seemed by Robert Seymour Bridges

Song: From an Old Song, 'Woo'd and Married and A'' by Joanna Baillie

Sonnets by James Russell Lowell

Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa by Lord Byron

Summer Days by Wathen Marks Wilks Call

The Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Author's Resolution, in a Sonnet: From 'Fair Virtue' by George Wither

The Bride: From 'A Ballad Upon a Wedding' by Sir John Suckling

The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley

The Common Doom by James Shirley

The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert Burns

The Eggs and the Horses: A Matrimonial Epic by Anonymous

The Eve of Saint Agnes by John Keats

The Faithful Lovers by Anonymous

The Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset

The Gillyflower of Gold by William Morris

The Golden Wedding by David Gray

The Landlady's Daughter by Ludwig Uhland

The Loveliness of Love by George Darley

The Might of One Fair Face by Michelangelo

The Milkmaid's Song by Sydney Dobell

The Newly-Wedded by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

The Old Maid by George Barlow

The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunningham

The Poet's Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

The Retort by George Pope Morris

The Sleeping Beauty: From 'The Day Dream' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor

The Spinning-Wheel Song by John Francis Waller

The Wedding-Day: From 'Epithalamion' by Edmund Spenser

The Welcome by Thomas Davis

The Wife of Loki by Lady Charlotte Elliot

The Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox Bennett

There's Nae Luck About the House by Jean Adam

Thou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie by Allan Cunningham

'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

To Chloe: An Apology for Going into the Country by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)

To Fidessa by Bartholomew Griffin

To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe

Two Lovers by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)

Waiting for the Grapes by William Maginn

Were I as Base as Is the Lowly Plain by Joshua Sylvester

Were I But His Own Wife by Mary Downing

What My Lover Said by Homer Greene

When Do I See Thee Most?: From 'The House of Life' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies by Edward, Lord Lytton

When the Kye Comes Hame by James Hogg

When Your Beauty Appears by Thomas Parnell

Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling

Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe

Zara's Ear-rings by John Gibson Lockhart