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 Woman's Complaint by Anonymous ,
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 ,
Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous ,
My Ain Wife by Alexander Laing ,
My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay ,
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 ,
Possession by Bayard Taylor ,
Possession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) ,
Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore ,
She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth ,
The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert Burns ,
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 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 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 ,
Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe