World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)

World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)

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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.
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  • 01
    The Future of Poetry by John Vance Cheney
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  • 02
    When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time: Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare
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    Daybreak by Sir William Davenant
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    Shall I Compare Thee?: Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare
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    The Portrait by Thomas Heywood
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    Give Place, Ye Lovers by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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    To His Mistress, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia by Sir Henry Wotton
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    The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide: Sonnet XCIX by William Shakespeare
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    There Is a Garden in Her Face: From 'An Houre's Recreation in Musicke,' 1606 by Anonymous
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    Olivia: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act I. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare
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    Portia's Picture: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
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    Song by Mark Akenside
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    Triumph of Charis by Ben Jonson
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    Belinda: From 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope
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    Hero's Beauty: From the First Sestiad of 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe
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    Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes: From 'The Forest' by Ben Jonson
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    Eros Is Missing by Meleager
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    A Violet in Her Hair by Charles Swain
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    To Dianeme by Robert Herrick
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    Rosalynd by Thomas Lodge
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    Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew
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    To a Lady Admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph
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    Phillis Is My Only Joy by Sir Charles Sedley
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    Constancy by Sir John Suckling
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    A Vision of Beauty by Ben Jonson
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    To the Princess Lucretia by Torquato Tasso
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    My Lady by Dante Alighieri
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    Vision of a Fair Woman, from the Ancient Erse of Elizabeth A. Sharp's 'Lyra Celtica'
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    Spring by Meleager
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    Song by Walther von der Vogelweide
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    The Girl of Cadiz by Lord Byron
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    I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    A Budget of Paradoxes by John Martley
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    Love Dissembled: From 'As You Like It,' Act III. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare
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    Her Likeness by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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    She Walks in Beauty: From 'Hebrew Melodies' by Lord Byron
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    She Is Not Fair to Outward View by Hartley Coleridge
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    Verses Written in an Album by Thomas Moore
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    To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington
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    To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
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    On a Girdle by Edmund Waller
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    The White Rose (Sent by a Yorkish Lover to His Lancastrian Mistress) by Anonymous
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    A Song by Thomas Carew
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    Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller
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    Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes by Robert Herrick
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    O, Do Not Wanton with Those Eyes by Ben Jonson
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    Black and Blue Eyes by Thomas Moore
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    Blue Eyes by John Keats
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    O, Saw Ye the Lass? by Richard Ryan
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    A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney
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    My Sweetheart's Face by John Allan Wyeth
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    Her Guitar by Frank Dempster Sherman
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    On Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster Sherman
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    O, Fairest of the Rural Maids! by William Cullen Bryant
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    To a Lady (On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully) by John James Piatt
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    On the Road to Chorrera by Arlo Bates
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    The Milking-Maid by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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    Lovely Mary Donnelly by William Allingham
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    The Irish Spinning-Wheel by Alfred Perceval Graves
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    The Low-Backed Car by Samuel Lover
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    A Gage d'Amour by Austin Dobson
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    An Experience and a Moral by Frederick Swartwout Cozzens
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    At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray
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    Love: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
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    Love Is a Sickness by Samuel Daniel
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    The Shepherd and the King by Robert Greene
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    Love: From 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe
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    Love and Woman: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act IV. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
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    Ah, How Sweet: From 'Tyrannic Love,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by John Dryden
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    Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing by William Browne
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    Love: From the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott
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    Song by Sir Charles Sedley
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    If It Be True That Any Beauteous Thing by Michelangelo
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    Sonnet by George Chapman
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    Love's Silence by Sir Philip Sidney
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    When Will Love Come? by Pakenham Beatty
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    Why? by Mary Louise Ritter
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    The Annoyer by Nathaniel Parker Willis
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    Three Loves by Lucy H. Hooper
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    Love Scorns Degrees: From 'The Mountain of the Lovers' by Paul Hamilton Hayne
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    Love Not Me for Comely Grace by Anonymous
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    Light by Francis W. Bourdillon
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    O Mistress Mine: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
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    Philomela's Ode (That She Sung in Her Arbor) by Robert Greene
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    A Fiction: How Cupid Made a Nymph Wound Herself with His Arrow by 'A.W.'
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    Wishes for the Supposed Mistress by Richard Crashaw
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    A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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    My Choice by William Browne
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    A Maiden's Ideal of a Husband: From 'The Contrivances' by Henry Carey
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    Rosalynd's Complaint by Thomas Lodge
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    Cupid Swallowed by Leigh Hunt
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    Green Grow the Rashes O by Robert Burns
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    Perfume by Edmund William Gosse
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    Life by Lizzie M. Little
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    Kate Temple's Song by Sir James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk
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    The First Kiss by Thomas Campbell
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    Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love by George, Lord Lyttelton
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    Athulf and Ethilda by Sir Henry Taylor
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    Blest as the Immortal Gods by Sappho
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    I Dreamt I Saw Great Venus by Bion
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    Francesca da Rimini: From the 'Divina Commedia: Inferno' by Dante Alighieri
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    Dinna Ask Me by John Dunlop
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    O Swallow, Swallow, Flying South: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Song: From 'The Miller's Daughter' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please by Robert Graham of Gartmore
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    The Kiss by Robert Herrick
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    An Opal by Ednah Procter Clarke Hayes
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    Cupid and Campaspe: From 'Alexander and Campaspe,' Act III. Sc. 5 by John Lyly
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    Kisses by William Strode
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    Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    Kissing's No Sin by Anonymous
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    Song of the Milkmaid: From 'Queen Mary' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Comin' Through the Rye by Robert Burns
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    Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by Robert Burns
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    Sonnet Upon a Stolen Kiss by George Wither
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    Caprice by William Dean Howells
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    Sly Thoughts by Coventry Patmore
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    The Whistle by Robert Story
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    Behave Yoursel' Before Folk by Alexander Rodger
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    Smile and Never Heed Me by Charles Swain
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    The Dule's I' This Bonnet o' Mine (Lancashire Dialect) by Edwin Waugh
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    A Spinster's Stint by Alice Cary
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    The Telltale by Elizabeth Akers
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    Love in the Valley by George Meredith
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    Thoughts on the Commandments by George Augustus Baker
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    The Love-Knot by Nora Perry
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    The Chess-board by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
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    Her Letter by Bret Harte
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    The Plaidie by Charles Sibley
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    Kitty of Coleraine by Charles Dawson Shanly
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    Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller
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    The Little Milliner by Robert Buchanan
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    Atalanta's Race: From 'The Earthly Paradise' by William Morris
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    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
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    The Nymph's Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh
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    Golden Eyes by Rufinus
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    Phillida and Corydon by Nicholas Breton
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    The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington by Anonymous
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    Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? by Anonymous
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    My Eyes! How I Love You by John Godfrey Saxe
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    The Brookside by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
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    The Little Red Lark by Alfred Perceval Graves
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    Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    Somebody by Anonymous
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    The Exchange by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    Love's Logic by Anonymous
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    The Night-piece by Robert Herrick
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    Sweet Meeting of Desires: From 'The Angel in the House' by Coventry Patmore
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    Story of the Gate by T.H. Robertson
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    Doris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph Munby
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    Among the Heather by William Allingham
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    Rory O'More; or, All for Good Luck by Samuel Lover
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    Cooking and Courting by Anonymous
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    Ca' the Yowes by Isabel Pagan
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    The Siller Croun by Susanna Blamire
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    Duncan Gray Cam' Here to Woo by Robert Burns
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    How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover
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    Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel Lover
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    Widow Machree by Samuel Lover
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    Widow Malone by Charles Lever
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    I'm Not Myself at All by Samuel Lover
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    I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling
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    Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Anonymous
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    The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell
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    Popping Corn by Anonymous
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    The Friar of Orders Gray by Thomas Percy
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    The Hermit: From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith
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    The Laird o' Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne
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    Othello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
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    The Earl o' Quarterdeck: A New Old Ballad by George MacDonald
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    Aux Italiens by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
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