The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1) - Free Audiobook

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

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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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