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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)

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Number of Chapters: 171

Length: 06 hours

Language: English

The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of famous and influential love poems relating to such topics as admiration; love's nature; love's beginnings; and wooing and winning. It also includes an introductory essay by American poet John Vance Cheney (1848-1922). Summary by Tomas Peter.

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The Future of Poetry by John Vance Cheney (Group)
When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time: Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare (Tomas Peter)
Daybreak by Sir William Davenant (Sonia)
Shall I Compare Thee?: Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare (Lian Pang)
The Portrait by Thomas Heywood (Anusha Iyer)
Give Place, Ye Lovers by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
To His Mistress, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia by Sir Henry Wotton (cathar maiden)
The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide: Sonnet XCIX by William Shakespeare (Sonia)
There Is a Garden in Her Face: From 'An Houre's Recreation in Musicke,' 1606 by Anonymous (Gaby)
Olivia: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act I. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare (Lian Pang)
Portia's Picture: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Tomas Peter)
Song by Mark Akenside (Gaby)
Triumph of Charis by Ben Jonson (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
Belinda: From 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope (Lian Pang)
Hero's Beauty: From the First Sestiad of 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe (Tomas Peter)
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes: From 'The Forest' by Ben Jonson (Tomas Peter)
Eros Is Missing by Meleager (Sonia)
A Violet in Her Hair by Charles Swain (Anusha Iyer)
To Dianeme by Robert Herrick (Lian Pang)
Rosalynd by Thomas Lodge (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew (Sonia)
To a Lady Admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph (Gaby)
Phillis Is My Only Joy by Sir Charles Sedley (Tomas Peter)
Constancy by Sir John Suckling (Anusha Iyer)
A Vision of Beauty by Ben Jonson (Lian Pang)
To the Princess Lucretia by Torquato Tasso (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
My Lady by Dante Alighieri (Anusha Iyer)
Vision of a Fair Woman, from the Ancient Erse of Elizabeth A. Sharp's 'Lyra Celtica' (Tomas Peter)
Spring by Meleager (Sonia)
Song by Walther von der Vogelweide (Gaby)
The Girl of Cadiz by Lord Byron (Anusha Iyer)
I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Lian Pang)
A Budget of Paradoxes by John Martley (cathar maiden)
Love Dissembled: From 'As You Like It,' Act III. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare (Anusha Iyer)
Her Likeness by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (Sonia)
She Walks in Beauty: From 'Hebrew Melodies' by Lord Byron (Gaby)
She Is Not Fair to Outward View by Hartley Coleridge (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
Verses Written in an Album by Thomas Moore (Sonia)
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington (Tomas Peter)
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe (Tomas Peter)
On a Girdle by Edmund Waller (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
The White Rose (Sent by a Yorkish Lover to His Lancastrian Mistress) by Anonymous (Lian Pang)
A Song by Thomas Carew (Sonia)
Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller (Tomas Peter)
Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes by Robert Herrick (Lian Pang)
O, Do Not Wanton with Those Eyes by Ben Jonson (Sonia)
Black and Blue Eyes by Thomas Moore (Anusha Iyer)
Blue Eyes by John Keats (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
O, Saw Ye the Lass? by Richard Ryan (Tomas Peter)
A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney (Tomas Peter)
My Sweetheart's Face by John Allan Wyeth (Lian Pang)
Her Guitar by Frank Dempster Sherman (Anusha Iyer)
On Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster Sherman (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
O, Fairest of the Rural Maids! by William Cullen Bryant (Gaby)
To a Lady (On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully) by John James Piatt (Lian Pang)
On the Road to Chorrera by Arlo Bates (Sonia)
The Milking-Maid by Christina Georgina Rossetti (Anusha Iyer)
Lovely Mary Donnelly by William Allingham (Tomas Peter)
The Irish Spinning-Wheel by Alfred Perceval Graves (Craig Franklin)
The Low-Backed Car by Samuel Lover (Gaby)
A Gage d'Amour by Austin Dobson (Anusha Iyer)
An Experience and a Moral by Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (Gaby)
At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray (Craig Franklin)
Love: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Lian Pang)
Love Is a Sickness by Samuel Daniel (Lian Pang)
The Shepherd and the King by Robert Greene (Sonia)
Love: From 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe (Gaby)
Love and Woman: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act IV. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare (Group)
Ah, How Sweet: From 'Tyrannic Love,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by John Dryden (Tomas Peter)
Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing by William Browne (Lian Pang)
Love: From the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott (Sonia)
Song by Sir Charles Sedley (cathar maiden)
If It Be True That Any Beauteous Thing by Michelangelo (Craig Franklin)
Sonnet by George Chapman (Anusha Iyer)
Love's Silence by Sir Philip Sidney (Craig Franklin)
When Will Love Come? by Pakenham Beatty (cathar maiden)
Why? by Mary Louise Ritter (Anusha Iyer)
The Annoyer by Nathaniel Parker Willis (Tomas Peter)
Three Loves by Lucy H. Hooper (Sonia)
Love Scorns Degrees: From 'The Mountain of the Lovers' by Paul Hamilton Hayne (Lian Pang)
Love Not Me for Comely Grace by Anonymous (Anusha Iyer)
Light by Francis W. Bourdillon (Anusha Iyer)
O Mistress Mine: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare (Tomas Peter)
Philomela's Ode (That She Sung in Her Arbor) by Robert Greene (Sonia)
A Fiction: How Cupid Made a Nymph Wound Herself with His Arrow by 'A.W.' (Tomas Peter)
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress by Richard Crashaw (Anusha Iyer)
A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne (cathar maiden)
My Choice by William Browne (Craig Franklin)
A Maiden's Ideal of a Husband: From 'The Contrivances' by Henry Carey (cathar maiden)
Rosalynd's Complaint by Thomas Lodge (Lian Pang)
Cupid Swallowed by Leigh Hunt (Craig Franklin)
Green Grow the Rashes O by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)
Perfume by Edmund William Gosse (Sonia)
Life by Lizzie M. Little (Anusha Iyer)
Kate Temple's Song by Sir James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk (cathar maiden)
The First Kiss by Thomas Campbell (Sonia)
Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love by George, Lord Lyttelton (Craig Franklin)
Athulf and Ethilda by Sir Henry Taylor (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
Blest as the Immortal Gods by Sappho (Lian Pang)
I Dreamt I Saw Great Venus by Bion (Anusha Iyer)
Francesca da Rimini: From the 'Divina Commedia: Inferno' by Dante Alighieri (Anusha Iyer)
Dinna Ask Me by John Dunlop (Tomas Peter)
O Swallow, Swallow, Flying South: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cathar maiden)
Song: From 'The Miller's Daughter' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Lian Pang)
If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please by Robert Graham of Gartmore (Craig Franklin)
The Kiss by Robert Herrick (Group)
An Opal by Ednah Procter Clarke Hayes (Sonia)
Cupid and Campaspe: From 'Alexander and Campaspe,' Act III. Sc. 5 by John Lyly (Tomas Peter)
Kisses by William Strode (Anusha Iyer)
Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Sonia)
Kissing's No Sin by Anonymous (Craig Franklin)
Song of the Milkmaid: From 'Queen Mary' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cathar maiden)
Comin' Through the Rye by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)
Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)
Sonnet Upon a Stolen Kiss by George Wither (Craig Franklin)
Caprice by William Dean Howells (Anusha Iyer)
Sly Thoughts by Coventry Patmore (Anusha Iyer)
The Whistle by Robert Story (Group)
Behave Yoursel' Before Folk by Alexander Rodger (Tomas Peter)
Smile and Never Heed Me by Charles Swain (cathar maiden)
The Dule's I' This Bonnet o' Mine (Lancashire Dialect) by Edwin Waugh (Craig Franklin)
A Spinster's Stint by Alice Cary (Anusha Iyer)
The Telltale by Elizabeth Akers (Anusha Iyer)
Love in the Valley by George Meredith (Sonia)
Thoughts on the Commandments by George Augustus Baker (Tomas Peter)
The Love-Knot by Nora Perry (Anusha Iyer)
The Chess-board by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) (Anusha Iyer)
Her Letter by Bret Harte (Sonia)
The Plaidie by Charles Sibley (Tomas Peter)
Kitty of Coleraine by Charles Dawson Shanly (Sonia)
Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller (Sonia)
The Little Milliner by Robert Buchanan (cathar maiden)
Atalanta's Race: From 'The Earthly Paradise' by William Morris (Sonia)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe (Tomas Peter)
The Nymph's Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh (cathar maiden)
Golden Eyes by Rufinus (Craig Franklin)
Phillida and Corydon by Nicholas Breton (Group)
The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington by Anonymous (Group)
Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? by Anonymous (Group)
My Eyes! How I Love You by John Godfrey Saxe (Craig Franklin)
The Brookside by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (Sonia)
The Little Red Lark by Alfred Perceval Graves (Sonia)
Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Tomas Peter)
Somebody by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)
The Exchange by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Tomas Peter)
Love's Logic by Anonymous (Group)
The Night-piece by Robert Herrick (Craig Franklin)
Sweet Meeting of Desires: From 'The Angel in the House' by Coventry Patmore (Tomas Peter)
Story of the Gate by T.H. Robertson (Anusha Iyer)
Doris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph Munby (Sonia)
Among the Heather by William Allingham (cathar maiden)
Rory O'More; or, All for Good Luck by Samuel Lover (Group)
Cooking and Courting by Anonymous (Sonia)
Ca' the Yowes by Isabel Pagan (Tomas Peter)
The Siller Croun by Susanna Blamire (Tomas Peter)
Duncan Gray Cam' Here to Woo by Robert Burns (Craig Franklin)
How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover (Tomas Peter)
Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel Lover (Sonia)
Widow Machree by Samuel Lover (Tomas Peter)
Widow Malone by Charles Lever (Sonia)
I'm Not Myself at All by Samuel Lover (Craig Franklin)
I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling (Anusha Iyer)
Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Anonymous (Sonia)
The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell (Group)
Popping Corn by Anonymous (Group)
The Friar of Orders Gray by Thomas Percy (Group)
The Hermit: From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith (Group)
The Laird o' Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne (Group)
Othello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare (Tomas Peter)
The Earl o' Quarterdeck: A New Old Ballad by George MacDonald (Group)
Aux Italiens by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) (Sonia)
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