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

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

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Number of Chapters: 142

Length: 06 hours and 18 minutes

Language: English

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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Let Not Woman E'er Complain by Robert Burns (Craig Franklin)
To Chloe: An Apology for Going into the Country by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (Anusha Iyer)
A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter (Leanne Yau)
Love's Blindness: Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare (Jason in Panama)
'Full Many a Glorious Morning': Sonnet XXXIII by William Shakespeare (Leanne Yau)
Alexis, Here She Stayed by William Drummond (Anusha Iyer)
Rivalry in Love by William Walsh (Leanne Yau)
My Dear and Only Love by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (Tomas Peter)
The Faithful Lovers by Anonymous (Leanne Yau)
The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley (Craig Franklin)
Constancy by Anonymous (Leanne Yau)
The Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace Thackeray (Anusha Iyer)
The Common Doom by James Shirley (Sonia)
The Author's Resolution, in a Sonnet: From 'Fair Virtue' by George Wither (Jason in Panama)
Answer to Master Wither's Song, 'Shall I, Wasting in Despair' by Ben Jonson (Tomas Peter)
Forever Unconfessed by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (Sonia)
Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion (Craig Franklin)
Si Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence Stedman (Sonia)
Waiting for the Grapes by William Maginn (Tomas Peter)
Give Me More Love or More Disdain by Thomas Carew (Leanne Yau)
Affaire d'Amour: For E.W.W. by Margaret Deland (Anusha Iyer)
A Renunciation by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford (Jason in Panama)
Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling (Craig Franklin)
A Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne Procter (Leanne Yau)
Not at All, or All in All: From 'Merlin and Vivien' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Leanne Yau)
When Do I See Thee Most?: From 'The House of Life' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Sonia)
Beauty by Lord Edward Thurlow (Tomas Peter)
Love in the Winds by Richard Hovey (Sonia)
Kissing Her Hair by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Jason in Panama)
My Sweet Sweeting: From a MS. Temp. Henry VIII by Anonymous (Craig Franklin)
Lines to an Indian Air: Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Sonia)
Serenade: From 'The Spanish Student' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Tomas Peter)
First Love: From 'Don Juan,' Canto I by Lord Byron (Anusha Iyer)
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Leanne Yau)
I Saw Two Clouds at Morning by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (Leanne Yau)
My Beautiful Lady by Thomas Woolner (Jason in Panama)
My Love (Her Portrait) by Russell Powell Jacoby (Tomas Peter)
A Christmas Scene (or, Love in the Country) by Thomas Osborne Davis (Craig Franklin)
Bedouin Love-Song by Bayard Taylor (Jason in Panama)
Zara's Ear-rings by John Gibson Lockhart (Anusha Iyer)
Hesperia by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Jason in Panama)
Come into the Garden, Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Group)
Lochinvar (Lady Heron's Song): From 'Marmion,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott (Group)
When Your Beauty Appears by Thomas Parnell (Sonia)
What My Lover Said by Homer Greene (Sonia)
Palabras Cariñosas (Spanish Air) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Anusha Iyer)
Seven Times Three: Love by Jean Ingelow (Anusha Iyer)
When the Kye Comes Hame by James Hogg (Tomas Peter)
The Milkmaid's Song by Sydney Dobell (Sonia)
Sally in Our Alley by Henry Carey (Craig Franklin)
On the Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Tomas Peter)
Ganging To and Ganging Frae by Eliza Cook (Jason in Panama)
The Spinning-Wheel Song by John Francis Waller (Group)
The Welcome by Thomas Davis (Leanne Yau)
Fetching Water from the Well by Anonymous (Craig Franklin)
Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Group)
Curfew Must Not Ring To-night by Rose Hartwick Thorpe (Group)
The Sleeping Beauty: From 'The Day Dream' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Group)
The Eve of Saint Agnes by John Keats (Group)
So Sweet Love Seemed by Robert Seymour Bridges (Tomas Peter)
Echoes by Thomas Moore (Sonia)
Love's Young Dream: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore (Anusha Iyer)
The Might of One Fair Face by Michelangelo (Jason in Panama)
My True-Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sidney (Leanne Yau)
Were I as Base as Is the Lowly Plain by Joshua Sylvester (Craig Franklin)
When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies by Edward, Lord Lytton (Sonia)
Come, Rest in This Bosom: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore (Leanne Yau)
The Gillyflower of Gold by William Morris (Tomas Peter)
The Landlady's Daughter by Ludwig Uhland (Group)
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore (Sonia)
Forget Thee? by John Moultrie (Craig Franklin)
Renouncement by Alice Meynell (Anusha Iyer)
Love by Robert Browning (Jason in Panama)
Last Night by Christian Winther (Leanne Yau)
Minstrels' Marriage-Song: From 'Oella: A Tragical Interlude' by Thomas Chatterton (Anusha Iyer)
Summer Days by Wathen Marks Wilks Call (Leanne Yau)
Fly to the Desert, Fly with Me: Song of Nourmahal in 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore (Group)
In a Gondola by Robert Browning (Group)
Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story (Sonia)
Love by Thomas Kibble Hervey (Sonia)
Keats's Last Sonnet by John Keats (Anusha Iyer)
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa by Lord Byron (Craig Franklin)
The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor (Group)
To Fidessa by Bartholomew Griffin (Tomas Peter)
Meeting at Night by Robert Browning (Anusha Iyer)
Charlie Machree by William J. Hoppin (Sonia)
Hope Deferred by Anonymous (Jason in Panama)
The Old Maid by George Barlow (Sonia)
The Loveliness of Love by George Darley (Leanne Yau)
To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe (Tomas Peter)
An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley (Craig Franklin)
Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor (Jason in Panama)
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds: Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare (Anusha Iyer)
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Group)
Sonnets by James Russell Lowell (Group)
My Love by James Russell Lowell (Craig Franklin)
Adam Describing Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VIII by John Milton (Tomas Peter)
Adam to Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton (Jason in Panama)
Brutus and Portia: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare (Group)
Lord Walter's Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Group)
Paulina's Appeal: From 'Polyeucte' by Pierre Corneille (Sonia)
The Wife of Loki by Lady Charlotte Elliot (Sonia)
Like a Laverock in the Lift by Jean Ingelow (Anusha Iyer)
Were I But His Own Wife by Mary Downing (Anusha Iyer)
Two Lovers by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot) (Anusha Iyer)
In Twos by William Channing Gannett (Jason in Panama)
Hebrew Wedding: From 'The Fall of Jerusalem' by Henry Hart Milman (Tomas Peter)
The Wedding-Day: From 'Epithalamion' by Edmund Spenser (Craig Franklin)
The Bride: From 'A Ballad Upon a Wedding' by Sir John Suckling (Tomas Peter)
Song: From an Old Song, 'Woo'd and Married and A'' by Joanna Baillie (Group)
The Newly-Wedded by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (Sonia)
The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunningham (Jason in Panama)
Thou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie by Allan Cunningham (Craig Franklin)
Possession by Bayard Taylor (Tomas Peter)
My Ain Wife by Alexander Laing (Craig Franklin)
My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns (Jason in Panama)
The Poet's Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (Leanne Yau)
The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)
She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth (Anusha Iyer)
Possession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) (Group)
My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay (Leanne Yau)
Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (Sonia)
A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous (Leanne Yau)
Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous (Group)
Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson (Craig Franklin)
The Retort by George Pope Morris (Group)
The Eggs and the Horses: A Matrimonial Epic by Anonymous (Group)
Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe (Anusha Iyer)
The Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox Bennett (Jason in Panama)
If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald Heber (Tomas Peter)
There's Nae Luck About the House by Jean Adam (Tomas Peter)
Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley (Craig Franklin)
O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey (Sonia)
Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale (Jason in Panama)
Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly (Anusha Iyer)
The Golden Wedding by David Gray (Craig Franklin)
The Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (Sonia)
Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton (Leanne Yau)
Laodamia by William Wordsworth (Group)
'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (Jason in Panama)
The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sonia)
John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)
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