World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)
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171 chapters · 6 h 1 min · English
Read by Anusha Iyer, cathar maiden, Sonia, John Burlinson (1950-2024), Tomas Peter, Lian Pang and others
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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.
Chapters
1 The Future of Poetry by John Vance Cheney 19 min 2 When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time: Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare 1 min 3 Daybreak by Sir William Davenant 1 min 4 Shall I Compare Thee?: Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare 1 min 5 The Portrait by Thomas Heywood 3 min 6 Give Place, Ye Lovers by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 2 min 7 To His Mistress, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia by Sir Henry Wotton 1 min 8 The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide: Sonnet XCIX by William Shakespeare 1 min 9 There Is a Garden in Her Face: From 'An Houre's Recreation in Musicke,' 1606 by Anonymous 2 min 10 Olivia: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act I. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare 1 min 11 Portia's Picture: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 1 min 12 Song by Mark Akenside 2 min 13 Triumph of Charis by Ben Jonson 2 min 14 Belinda: From 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope 1 min 15 Hero's Beauty: From the First Sestiad of 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe 3 min 16 Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes: From 'The Forest' by Ben Jonson 1 min 17 Eros Is Missing by Meleager 1 min 18 A Violet in Her Hair by Charles Swain 1 min 19 To Dianeme by Robert Herrick 1 min 20 Rosalynd by Thomas Lodge 3 min 21 Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew 1 min 22 To a Lady Admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph 3 min 23 Phillis Is My Only Joy by Sir Charles Sedley 1 min 24 Constancy by Sir John Suckling 1 min 25 A Vision of Beauty by Ben Jonson 1 min 26 To the Princess Lucretia by Torquato Tasso 2 min 27 My Lady by Dante Alighieri 1 min 28 Vision of a Fair Woman, from the Ancient Erse of Elizabeth A. Sharp's 'Lyra Celtica' 1 min 29 Spring by Meleager 1 min 30 Song by Walther von der Vogelweide 2 min 31 The Girl of Cadiz by Lord Byron 3 min 32 I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 min 33 A Budget of Paradoxes by John Martley 1 min 34 Love Dissembled: From 'As You Like It,' Act III. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare 2 min 35 Her Likeness by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1 min 36 She Walks in Beauty: From 'Hebrew Melodies' by Lord Byron 2 min 37 She Is Not Fair to Outward View by Hartley Coleridge 1 min 38 Verses Written in an Album by Thomas Moore 1 min 39 To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington 1 min 40 To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe 1 min 41 On a Girdle by Edmund Waller 1 min 42 The White Rose (Sent by a Yorkish Lover to His Lancastrian Mistress) by Anonymous 1 min 43 A Song by Thomas Carew 1 min 44 Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 1 min 45 Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes by Robert Herrick 1 min 46 O, Do Not Wanton with Those Eyes by Ben Jonson 1 min 47 Black and Blue Eyes by Thomas Moore 1 min 48 Blue Eyes by John Keats 2 min 49 O, Saw Ye the Lass? by Richard Ryan 1 min 50 A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney 2 min 51 My Sweetheart's Face by John Allan Wyeth 1 min 52 Her Guitar by Frank Dempster Sherman 2 min 53 On Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster Sherman 1 min 54 O, Fairest of the Rural Maids! by William Cullen Bryant 2 min 55 To a Lady (On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully) by John James Piatt 1 min 56 On the Road to Chorrera by Arlo Bates 1 min 57 The Milking-Maid by Christina Georgina Rossetti 4 min 58 Lovely Mary Donnelly by William Allingham 3 min 59 The Irish Spinning-Wheel by Alfred Perceval Graves 2 min 60 The Low-Backed Car by Samuel Lover 3 min 61 A Gage d'Amour by Austin Dobson 4 min 62 An Experience and a Moral by Frederick Swartwout Cozzens 3 min 63 At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray 2 min 64 Love: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 1 min 65 Love Is a Sickness by Samuel Daniel 1 min 66 The Shepherd and the King by Robert Greene 2 min 67 Love: From 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe 1 min 68 Love and Woman: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act IV. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare 5 min 69 Ah, How Sweet: From 'Tyrannic Love,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by John Dryden 2 min 70 Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing by William Browne 2 min 71 Love: From the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott 2 min 72 Song by Sir Charles Sedley 2 min 73 If It Be True That Any Beauteous Thing by Michelangelo 2 min 74 Sonnet by George Chapman 1 min 75 Love's Silence by Sir Philip Sidney 1 min 76 When Will Love Come? by Pakenham Beatty 1 min 77 Why? by Mary Louise Ritter 1 min 78 The Annoyer by Nathaniel Parker Willis 2 min 79 Three Loves by Lucy H. Hooper 1 min 80 Love Scorns Degrees: From 'The Mountain of the Lovers' by Paul Hamilton Hayne 1 min 81 Love Not Me for Comely Grace by Anonymous 1 min 82 Light by Francis W. Bourdillon 1 min 83 O Mistress Mine: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare 1 min 84 Philomela's Ode (That She Sung in Her Arbor) by Robert Greene 2 min 85 A Fiction: How Cupid Made a Nymph Wound Herself with His Arrow by 'A.W.' 3 min 86 Wishes for the Supposed Mistress by Richard Crashaw 3 min 87 A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne 2 min 88 My Choice by William Browne 2 min 89 A Maiden's Ideal of a Husband: From 'The Contrivances' by Henry Carey 1 min 90 Rosalynd's Complaint by Thomas Lodge 2 min 91 Cupid Swallowed by Leigh Hunt 1 min 92 Green Grow the Rashes O by Robert Burns 2 min 93 Perfume by Edmund William Gosse 1 min 94 Life by Lizzie M. Little 1 min 95 Kate Temple's Song by Sir James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk 1 min 96 The First Kiss by Thomas Campbell 2 min 97 Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love by George, Lord Lyttelton 1 min 98 Athulf and Ethilda by Sir Henry Taylor 2 min 99 Blest as the Immortal Gods by Sappho 1 min 100 I Dreamt I Saw Great Venus by Bion 2 min 101 Francesca da Rimini: From the 'Divina Commedia: Inferno' by Dante Alighieri 2 min 102 Dinna Ask Me by John Dunlop 1 min 103 O Swallow, Swallow, Flying South: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2 min 104 Song: From 'The Miller's Daughter' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 105 If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please by Robert Graham of Gartmore 2 min 106 The Kiss by Robert Herrick 2 min 107 An Opal by Ednah Procter Clarke Hayes 1 min 108 Cupid and Campaspe: From 'Alexander and Campaspe,' Act III. Sc. 5 by John Lyly 1 min 109 Kisses by William Strode 1 min 110 Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 min 111 Kissing's No Sin by Anonymous 1 min 112 Song of the Milkmaid: From 'Queen Mary' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 113 Comin' Through the Rye by Robert Burns 2 min 114 Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by Robert Burns 2 min 115 Sonnet Upon a Stolen Kiss by George Wither 1 min 116 Caprice by William Dean Howells 2 min 117 Sly Thoughts by Coventry Patmore 1 min 118 The Whistle by Robert Story 2 min 119 Behave Yoursel' Before Folk by Alexander Rodger 2 min 120 Smile and Never Heed Me by Charles Swain 1 min 121 The Dule's I' This Bonnet o' Mine (Lancashire Dialect) by Edwin Waugh 2 min 122 A Spinster's Stint by Alice Cary 2 min 123 The Telltale by Elizabeth Akers 4 min 124 Love in the Valley by George Meredith 6 min 125 Thoughts on the Commandments by George Augustus Baker 1 min 126 The Love-Knot by Nora Perry 2 min 127 The Chess-board by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) 2 min 128 Her Letter by Bret Harte 4 min 129 The Plaidie by Charles Sibley 1 min 130 Kitty of Coleraine by Charles Dawson Shanly 1 min 131 Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller 2 min 132 The Little Milliner by Robert Buchanan 13 min 133 Atalanta's Race: From 'The Earthly Paradise' by William Morris 9 min 134 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe 2 min 135 The Nymph's Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh 2 min 136 Golden Eyes by Rufinus 1 min 137 Phillida and Corydon by Nicholas Breton 2 min 138 The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington by Anonymous 3 min 139 Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? by Anonymous 1 min 140 My Eyes! How I Love You by John Godfrey Saxe 2 min 141 The Brookside by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton 2 min 142 The Little Red Lark by Alfred Perceval Graves 1 min 143 Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4 min 144 Somebody by Anonymous 2 min 145 The Exchange by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1 min 146 Love's Logic by Anonymous 2 min 147 The Night-piece by Robert Herrick 1 min 148 Sweet Meeting of Desires: From 'The Angel in the House' by Coventry Patmore 2 min 149 Story of the Gate by T.H. Robertson 3 min 150 Doris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph Munby 4 min 151 Among the Heather by William Allingham 2 min 152 Rory O'More; or, All for Good Luck by Samuel Lover 3 min 153 Cooking and Courting by Anonymous 3 min 154 Ca' the Yowes by Isabel Pagan 2 min 155 The Siller Croun by Susanna Blamire 1 min 156 Duncan Gray Cam' Here to Woo by Robert Burns 2 min 157 How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover 2 min 158 Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel Lover 2 min 159 Widow Machree by Samuel Lover 2 min 160 Widow Malone by Charles Lever 2 min 161 I'm Not Myself at All by Samuel Lover 3 min 162 I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling 2 min 163 Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Anonymous 2 min 164 The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell 5 min 165 Popping Corn by Anonymous 2 min 166 The Friar of Orders Gray by Thomas Percy 5 min 167 The Hermit: From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith 8 min 168 The Laird o' Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne 2 min 169 Othello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare 4 min 170 The Earl o' Quarterdeck: A New Old Ballad by George MacDonald 6 min 171 Aux Italiens by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) 6 min
