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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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  • 03
    A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter
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  • 04
    Love's Blindness: Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare
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  • 05
    'Full Many a Glorious Morning': Sonnet XXXIII by William Shakespeare
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  • 06
    Alexis, Here She Stayed by William Drummond
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    Rivalry in Love by William Walsh
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  • 08
    My Dear and Only Love by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
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  • 09
    The Faithful Lovers by Anonymous
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  • 10
    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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  • 17
    Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion
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    Si Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence Stedman
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    Waiting for the Grapes by William Maginn
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    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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    Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling
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    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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    Beauty by Lord Edward Thurlow
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    Love in the Winds by Richard Hovey
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  • 29
    Kissing Her Hair by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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    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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    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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    Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    I Saw Two Clouds at Morning by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
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    My Beautiful Lady by Thomas Woolner
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    My Love (Her Portrait) by Russell Powell Jacoby
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    A Christmas Scene (or, Love in the Country) by Thomas Osborne Davis
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    Bedouin Love-Song by Bayard Taylor
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  • 40
    Zara's Ear-rings by John Gibson Lockhart
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    Hesperia by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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  • 42
    Come into the Garden, Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    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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  • 48
    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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    On the Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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  • 52
    Ganging To and Ganging Frae by Eliza Cook
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    The Spinning-Wheel Song by John Francis Waller
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    The Welcome by Thomas Davis
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  • 55
    Fetching Water from the Well by Anonymous
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    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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    The Eve of Saint Agnes by John Keats
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    So Sweet Love Seemed by Robert Seymour Bridges
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    Echoes by Thomas Moore
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    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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    The Landlady's Daughter by Ludwig Uhland
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    Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
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    Forget Thee? by John Moultrie
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    Renouncement by Alice Meynell
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    Love by Robert Browning
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    Last Night by Christian Winther
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    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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    Keats's Last Sonnet by John Keats
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    Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa by Lord Byron
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    The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor
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    To Fidessa by Bartholomew Griffin
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    Meeting at Night by Robert Browning
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    Charlie Machree by William J. Hoppin
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    Hope Deferred by Anonymous
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    The Old Maid by George Barlow
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    The Loveliness of Love by George Darley
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    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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  • 99
    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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    Paulina's Appeal: From 'Polyeucte' by Pierre Corneille
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    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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    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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  • 112
    The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunningham
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    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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    My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns
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    The Poet's Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
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    The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert Burns
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    She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth
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    Possession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
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    My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay
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    Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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    A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous
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  • 124
    Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous
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    Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson
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  • 126
    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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  • 128
    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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    If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald Heber
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    There's Nae Luck About the House by Jean Adam
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    Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley
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    O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey
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    Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale
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    Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly
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    The Golden Wedding by David Gray
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    The Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset
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    Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton
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    Laodamia by William Wordsworth
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    'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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    The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns
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