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.
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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2):
A Christmas Scene (or, Love in the Country) by Thomas Osborne Davis ,
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 ,
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 ,
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 ,
Forget Thee? by John Moultrie ,
Ganging To and Ganging Frae by Eliza Cook ,
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 ,
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 ,
Like a Laverock in the Lift by Jean Ingelow ,
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 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 Beautiful Lady by Thomas Woolner ,
My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay ,
My Love by James Russell Lowell ,
My Love (Her Portrait) by Russell Powell Jacoby ,
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 ,
On the Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar ,
Palabras CariƱosas (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 ,
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 ,
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 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 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 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 ,
What My Lover Said by Homer Greene ,
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 ,
Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe ,
Zara's Ear-rings by John Gibson Lockhart