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

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142 Chapter(s)

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

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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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