World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2)
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142 chapters · 6 h 19 min · English
Read by Craig Franklin, Anusha Iyer, Leanne Yau, Jason in Panama, Tomas Peter, Sonia
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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.
Chapters
1 Let Not Woman E'er Complain by Robert Burns 1 min 2 To Chloe: An Apology for Going into the Country by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) 3 min 3 A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter 3 min 4 Love's Blindness: Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare 2 min 5 'Full Many a Glorious Morning': Sonnet XXXIII by William Shakespeare 1 min 6 Alexis, Here She Stayed by William Drummond 2 min 7 Rivalry in Love by William Walsh 1 min 8 My Dear and Only Love by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose 6 min 9 The Faithful Lovers by Anonymous 3 min 10 The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley 3 min 11 Constancy by Anonymous 2 min 12 The Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace Thackeray 2 min 13 The Common Doom by James Shirley 1 min 14 The Author's Resolution, in a Sonnet: From 'Fair Virtue' by George Wither 3 min 15 Answer to Master Wither's Song, 'Shall I, Wasting in Despair' by Ben Jonson 2 min 16 Forever Unconfessed by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton 1 min 17 Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion 1 min 18 Si Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence Stedman 1 min 19 Waiting for the Grapes by William Maginn 2 min 20 Give Me More Love or More Disdain by Thomas Carew 1 min 21 Affaire d'Amour: For E.W.W. by Margaret Deland 2 min 22 A Renunciation by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford 2 min 23 Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling 1 min 24 A Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne Procter 3 min 25 Not at All, or All in All: From 'Merlin and Vivien' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 26 When Do I See Thee Most?: From 'The House of Life' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 min 27 Beauty by Lord Edward Thurlow 1 min 28 Love in the Winds by Richard Hovey 1 min 29 Kissing Her Hair by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1 min 30 My Sweet Sweeting: From a MS. 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Henry VIII by Anonymous 1 min 31 Lines to an Indian Air: Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 min 32 Serenade: From 'The Spanish Student' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 33 First Love: From 'Don Juan,' Canto I by Lord Byron 3 min 34 Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2 min 35 I Saw Two Clouds at Morning by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard 1 min 36 My Beautiful Lady by Thomas Woolner 3 min 37 My Love (Her Portrait) by Russell Powell Jacoby 1 min 38 A Christmas Scene (or, Love in the Country) by Thomas Osborne Davis 3 min 39 Bedouin Love-Song by Bayard Taylor 2 min 40 Zara's Ear-rings by John Gibson Lockhart 4 min 41 Hesperia by Algernon Charles Swinburne 9 min 42 Come into the Garden, Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 4 min 43 Lochinvar (Lady Heron's Song): From 'Marmion,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott 4 min 44 When Your Beauty Appears by Thomas Parnell 1 min 45 What My Lover Said by Homer Greene 3 min 46 Palabras Cariñosas (Spanish Air) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 2 min 47 Seven Times Three: Love by Jean Ingelow 2 min 48 When the Kye Comes Hame by James Hogg 4 min 49 The Milkmaid's Song by Sydney Dobell 5 min 50 Sally in Our Alley by Henry Carey 3 min 51 On the Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar 2 min 52 Ganging To and Ganging Frae by Eliza Cook 1 min 53 The Spinning-Wheel Song by John Francis Waller 3 min 54 The Welcome by Thomas Davis 2 min 55 Fetching Water from the Well by Anonymous 4 min 56 Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 5 min 57 Curfew Must Not Ring To-night by Rose Hartwick Thorpe 6 min 58 The Sleeping Beauty: From 'The Day Dream' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 6 min 59 The Eve of Saint Agnes by John Keats 22 min 60 So Sweet Love Seemed by Robert Seymour Bridges 2 min 61 Echoes by Thomas Moore 1 min 62 Love's Young Dream: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore 2 min 63 The Might of One Fair Face by Michelangelo 1 min 64 My True-Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sidney 1 min 65 Were I as Base as Is the Lowly Plain by Joshua Sylvester 1 min 66 When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies by Edward, Lord Lytton 2 min 67 Come, Rest in This Bosom: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore 1 min 68 The Gillyflower of Gold by William Morris 4 min 69 The Landlady's Daughter by Ludwig Uhland 2 min 70 Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore 1 min 71 Forget Thee? by John Moultrie 2 min 72 Renouncement by Alice Meynell 1 min 73 Love by Robert Browning 1 min 74 Last Night by Christian Winther 2 min 75 Minstrels' Marriage-Song: From 'Oella: A Tragical Interlude' by Thomas Chatterton 2 min 76 Summer Days by Wathen Marks Wilks Call 3 min 77 Fly to the Desert, Fly with Me: Song of Nourmahal in 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore 4 min 78 In a Gondola by Robert Browning 12 min 79 Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story 7 min 80 Love by Thomas Kibble Hervey 2 min 81 Keats's Last Sonnet by John Keats 1 min 82 Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa by Lord Byron 2 min 83 The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor 3 min 84 To Fidessa by Bartholomew Griffin 1 min 85 Meeting at Night by Robert Browning 1 min 86 Charlie Machree by William J. Hoppin 3 min 87 Hope Deferred by Anonymous 1 min 88 The Old Maid by George Barlow 1 min 89 The Loveliness of Love by George Darley 2 min 90 To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe 2 min 91 An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley 4 min 92 Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor 1 min 93 Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds: Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare 1 min 94 Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 8 min 95 Sonnets by James Russell Lowell 3 min 96 My Love by James Russell Lowell 3 min 97 Adam Describing Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VIII by John Milton 5 min 98 Adam to Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton 2 min 99 Brutus and Portia: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 4 min 100 Lord Walter's Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 5 min 101 Paulina's Appeal: From 'Polyeucte' by Pierre Corneille 4 min 102 The Wife of Loki by Lady Charlotte Elliot 2 min 103 Like a Laverock in the Lift by Jean Ingelow 2 min 104 Were I But His Own Wife by Mary Downing 2 min 105 Two Lovers by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot) 2 min 106 In Twos by William Channing Gannett 2 min 107 Hebrew Wedding: From 'The Fall of Jerusalem' by Henry Hart Milman 2 min 108 The Wedding-Day: From 'Epithalamion' by Edmund Spenser 6 min 109 The Bride: From 'A Ballad Upon a Wedding' by Sir John Suckling 2 min 110 Song: From an Old Song, 'Woo'd and Married and A'' by Joanna Baillie 4 min 111 The Newly-Wedded by Winthrop Mackworth Praed 1 min 112 The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunningham 3 min 113 Thou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie by Allan Cunningham 2 min 114 Possession by Bayard Taylor 3 min 115 My Ain Wife by Alexander Laing 1 min 116 My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns 1 min 117 The Poet's Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 1 min 118 The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert Burns 1 min 119 She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth 2 min 120 Possession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) 2 min 121 My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay 1 min 122 Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore 2 min 123 A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous 3 min 124 Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous 3 min 125 Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson 3 min 126 The Retort by George Pope Morris 1 min 127 The Eggs and the Horses: A Matrimonial Epic by Anonymous 8 min 128 Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe 1 min 129 The Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox Bennett 4 min 130 If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald Heber 2 min 131 There's Nae Luck About the House by Jean Adam 2 min 132 Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley 1 min 133 O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey 2 min 134 Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale 1 min 135 Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly 2 min 136 The Golden Wedding by David Gray 2 min 137 The Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset 1 min 138 Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton 1 min 139 Laodamia by William Wordsworth 11 min 140 'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 2 min 141 The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes 3 min 142 John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns 2 min
