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

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Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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.

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Listen next episodes of The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2):
A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous , Adam Describing Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VIII by John Milton , Adam to Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton , An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley , 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, Rest in This Bosom: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore , Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson , 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 , Fly to the Desert, Fly with Me: Song of Nourmahal in 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore , Forget Thee? by John Moultrie , Hebrew Wedding: From 'The Fall of Jerusalem' by Henry Hart Milman , Hope Deferred by Anonymous , 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 , Laodamia by William Wordsworth , Last Night by Christian Winther , Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds: Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare , Like a Laverock in the Lift by Jean Ingelow , Lord Walter's Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Love by Robert Browning , Love by Thomas Kibble Hervey , Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous , 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 Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay , My Love by James Russell Lowell , My True-Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sidney , My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns , Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton , O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey , 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 , Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor , She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth , 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 Bride: From 'A Ballad Upon a Wedding' by Sir John Suckling , 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 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 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 Wedding-Day: From 'Epithalamion' by Edmund Spenser , 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 Fidessa by Bartholomew Griffin , To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe , Two Lovers by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot) , Were I as Base as Is the Lowly Plain by Joshua Sylvester , Were I But His Own Wife by Mary Downing , When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies by Edward, Lord Lytton , Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe