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

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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01

Let Not Woman E'er Complain by Robert Burns

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02

To Chloe: An Apology for Going into the Country by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)

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A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter

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Love's Blindness: Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare

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'Full Many a Glorious Morning': Sonnet XXXIII by William Shakespeare

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Alexis, Here She Stayed by William Drummond

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Rivalry in Love by William Walsh

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My Dear and Only Love by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose

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The Faithful Lovers by Anonymous

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The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley

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Constancy by Anonymous

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The Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace Thackeray

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The Common Doom by James Shirley

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14

The Author's Resolution, in a Sonnet: From 'Fair Virtue' by George Wither

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Answer to Master Wither's Song, 'Shall I, Wasting in Despair' by Ben Jonson

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Forever Unconfessed by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

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Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion

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18

Si Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence Stedman

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19

Waiting for the Grapes by William Maginn

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20

Give Me More Love or More Disdain by Thomas Carew

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21

Affaire d'Amour: For E.W.W. by Margaret Deland

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22

A Renunciation by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford

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23

Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling

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24

A Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne Procter

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25

Not at All, or All in All: From 'Merlin and Vivien' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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26

When Do I See Thee Most?: From 'The House of Life' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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27

Beauty by Lord Edward Thurlow

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28

Love in the Winds by Richard Hovey

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29

Kissing Her Hair by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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30

My Sweet Sweeting: From a MS. Temp. Henry VIII by Anonymous

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31

Lines to an Indian Air: Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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32

Serenade: From 'The Spanish Student' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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33

First Love: From 'Don Juan,' Canto I by Lord Byron

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34

Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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35

I Saw Two Clouds at Morning by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

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36

My Beautiful Lady by Thomas Woolner

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37

My Love (Her Portrait) by Russell Powell Jacoby

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38

A Christmas Scene (or, Love in the Country) by Thomas Osborne Davis

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39

Bedouin Love-Song by Bayard Taylor

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40

Zara's Ear-rings by John Gibson Lockhart

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41

Hesperia by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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42

Come into the Garden, Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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43

Lochinvar (Lady Heron's Song): From 'Marmion,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott

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44

When Your Beauty Appears by Thomas Parnell

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45

What My Lover Said by Homer Greene

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46

Palabras Cariñosas (Spanish Air) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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47

Seven Times Three: Love by Jean Ingelow

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When the Kye Comes Hame by James Hogg

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49

The Milkmaid's Song by Sydney Dobell

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50

Sally in Our Alley by Henry Carey

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51

On the Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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52

Ganging To and Ganging Frae by Eliza Cook

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53

The Spinning-Wheel Song by John Francis Waller

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54

The Welcome by Thomas Davis

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Fetching Water from the Well by Anonymous

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56

Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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57

Curfew Must Not Ring To-night by Rose Hartwick Thorpe

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58

The Sleeping Beauty: From 'The Day Dream' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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59

The Eve of Saint Agnes by John Keats

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60

So Sweet Love Seemed by Robert Seymour Bridges

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61

Echoes by Thomas Moore

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62

Love's Young Dream: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore

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The Might of One Fair Face by Michelangelo

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My True-Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sidney

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Were I as Base as Is the Lowly Plain by Joshua Sylvester

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When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies by Edward, Lord Lytton

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Come, Rest in This Bosom: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore

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The Gillyflower of Gold by William Morris

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69

The Landlady's Daughter by Ludwig Uhland

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70

Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore

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71

Forget Thee? by John Moultrie

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72

Renouncement by Alice Meynell

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73

Love by Robert Browning

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74

Last Night by Christian Winther

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75

Minstrels' Marriage-Song: From 'Oella: A Tragical Interlude' by Thomas Chatterton

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Summer Days by Wathen Marks Wilks Call

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Fly to the Desert, Fly with Me: Song of Nourmahal in 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore

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In a Gondola by Robert Browning

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Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story

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Love by Thomas Kibble Hervey

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81

Keats's Last Sonnet by John Keats

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82

Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa by Lord Byron

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83

The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor

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To Fidessa by Bartholomew Griffin

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85

Meeting at Night by Robert Browning

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Charlie Machree by William J. Hoppin

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87

Hope Deferred by Anonymous

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88

The Old Maid by George Barlow

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The Loveliness of Love by George Darley

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90

To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe

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An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley

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Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor

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Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds: Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare

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Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Sonnets by James Russell Lowell

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My Love by James Russell Lowell

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97

Adam Describing Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VIII by John Milton

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Adam to Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton

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Brutus and Portia: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

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Lord Walter's Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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101

Paulina's Appeal: From 'Polyeucte' by Pierre Corneille

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102

The Wife of Loki by Lady Charlotte Elliot

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Like a Laverock in the Lift by Jean Ingelow

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104

Were I But His Own Wife by Mary Downing

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Two Lovers by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)

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In Twos by William Channing Gannett

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Hebrew Wedding: From 'The Fall of Jerusalem' by Henry Hart Milman

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The Wedding-Day: From 'Epithalamion' by Edmund Spenser

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The Bride: From 'A Ballad Upon a Wedding' by Sir John Suckling

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Song: From an Old Song, 'Woo'd and Married and A'' by Joanna Baillie

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The Newly-Wedded by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

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The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunningham

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113

Thou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie by Allan Cunningham

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Possession by Bayard Taylor

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My Ain Wife by Alexander Laing

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116

My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns

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117

The Poet's Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

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118

The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert Burns

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119

She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth

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120

Possession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

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121

My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay

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122

Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore

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123

A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous

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Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous

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125

Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson

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The Retort by George Pope Morris

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127

The Eggs and the Horses: A Matrimonial Epic by Anonymous

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Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe

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129

The Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox Bennett

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130

If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald Heber

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131

There's Nae Luck About the House by Jean Adam

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132

Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley

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133

O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey

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Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale

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135

Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly

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136

The Golden Wedding by David Gray

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137

The Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset

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138

Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton

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139

Laodamia by William Wordsworth

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140

'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

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141

The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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142

John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns

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