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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2)
by VARIOUS ( - )Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous
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.
Listen next episodes of The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2):
Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson , Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly , Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley , Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale , If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald Heber , John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns , Laodamia by William Wordsworth , Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton , O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey , The Eggs and the Horses: A Matrimonial Epic by Anonymous , The Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset , The Golden Wedding by David Gray , The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes , The Retort by George Pope Morris , The Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox Bennett , There's Nae Luck About the House by Jean Adam , 'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley , Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe