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

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171 chapters6h 0mEnglish1904

About this book

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.

Chapters (170)

1When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time: Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare

2Daybreak by Sir William Davenant

3Shall I Compare Thee?: Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare

4The Portrait by Thomas Heywood

153

5Give Place, Ye Lovers by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

129

6To His Mistress, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia by Sir Henry Wotton

7The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide: Sonnet XCIX by William Shakespeare

8There Is a Garden in Her Face: From 'An Houre's Recreation in Musicke,' 1606 by Anonymous

105

9Olivia: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act I. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare

10Portia's Picture: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

11Song by Mark Akenside

114

12Triumph of Charis by Ben Jonson

145

13Belinda: From 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope

14Hero's Beauty: From the First Sestiad of 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe

178

15Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes: From 'The Forest' by Ben Jonson

16Eros Is Missing by Meleager

17A Violet in Her Hair by Charles Swain

18To Dianeme by Robert Herrick

19Rosalynd by Thomas Lodge

193

20Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew

21To a Lady Admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph

156

22Phillis Is My Only Joy by Sir Charles Sedley

23Constancy by Sir John Suckling

24A Vision of Beauty by Ben Jonson

25To the Princess Lucretia by Torquato Tasso

102

26My Lady by Dante Alighieri

27Vision of a Fair Woman, from the Ancient Erse of Elizabeth A. Sharp's 'Lyra Celtica'

28Spring by Meleager

29Song by Walther von der Vogelweide

119

30The Girl of Cadiz by Lord Byron

207

31I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden by Percy Bysshe Shelley

32A Budget of Paradoxes by John Martley

33Love Dissembled: From 'As You Like It,' Act III. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare

135

34Her Likeness by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

35She Walks in Beauty: From 'Hebrew Melodies' by Lord Byron

36She Is Not Fair to Outward View by Hartley Coleridge

37Verses Written in an Album by Thomas Moore

38To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington

39To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe

40On a Girdle by Edmund Waller

41The White Rose (Sent by a Yorkish Lover to His Lancastrian Mistress) by Anonymous

42A Song by Thomas Carew

43Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller

44Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes by Robert Herrick

45O, Do Not Wanton with Those Eyes by Ben Jonson

46Black and Blue Eyes by Thomas Moore

47Blue Eyes by John Keats

106

48O, Saw Ye the Lass? by Richard Ryan

49A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney

115

50My Sweetheart's Face by John Allan Wyeth

51Her Guitar by Frank Dempster Sherman

145

52On Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster Sherman

53O, Fairest of the Rural Maids! by William Cullen Bryant

107

54To a Lady (On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully) by John James Piatt

55On the Road to Chorrera by Arlo Bates

56The Milking-Maid by Christina Georgina Rossetti

228

57Lovely Mary Donnelly by William Allingham

168

58The Irish Spinning-Wheel by Alfred Perceval Graves

125

59The Low-Backed Car by Samuel Lover

179

60A Gage d'Amour by Austin Dobson

225

61An Experience and a Moral by Frederick Swartwout Cozzens

170

62At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray

63Love: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

64Love Is a Sickness by Samuel Daniel

65The Shepherd and the King by Robert Greene

146

66Love: From 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe

67Love and Woman: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act IV. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

309

68Ah, How Sweet: From 'Tyrannic Love,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by John Dryden

69Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing by William Browne

100

70Love: From the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott

117

71Song by Sir Charles Sedley

102

72If It Be True That Any Beauteous Thing by Michelangelo

73Sonnet by George Chapman

74Love's Silence by Sir Philip Sidney

75When Will Love Come? by Pakenham Beatty

76Why? by Mary Louise Ritter

77The Annoyer by Nathaniel Parker Willis

119

78Three Loves by Lucy H. Hooper

79Love Scorns Degrees: From 'The Mountain of the Lovers' by Paul Hamilton Hayne

80Love Not Me for Comely Grace by Anonymous

81Light by Francis W. Bourdillon

82O Mistress Mine: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

83Philomela's Ode (That She Sung in Her Arbor) by Robert Greene

124

84A Fiction: How Cupid Made a Nymph Wound Herself with His Arrow by 'A.W.'

181

85Wishes for the Supposed Mistress by Richard Crashaw

199

86A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne

140

87My Choice by William Browne

108

88A Maiden's Ideal of a Husband: From 'The Contrivances' by Henry Carey

89Rosalynd's Complaint by Thomas Lodge

106

90Cupid Swallowed by Leigh Hunt

91Green Grow the Rashes O by Robert Burns

108

92Perfume by Edmund William Gosse

93Life by Lizzie M. Little

94Kate Temple's Song by Sir James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk

95The First Kiss by Thomas Campbell

96Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love by George, Lord Lyttelton

97Athulf and Ethilda by Sir Henry Taylor

144

98Blest as the Immortal Gods by Sappho

99I Dreamt I Saw Great Venus by Bion

100Francesca da Rimini: From the 'Divina Commedia: Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

141

101Dinna Ask Me by John Dunlop

102O Swallow, Swallow, Flying South: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

118

103Song: From 'The Miller's Daughter' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

104If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please by Robert Graham of Gartmore

104

105The Kiss by Robert Herrick

111

106An Opal by Ednah Procter Clarke Hayes

107Cupid and Campaspe: From 'Alexander and Campaspe,' Act III. Sc. 5 by John Lyly

108Kisses by William Strode

109Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley

110Kissing's No Sin by Anonymous

111Song of the Milkmaid: From 'Queen Mary' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

112Comin' Through the Rye by Robert Burns

113Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by Robert Burns

137

114Sonnet Upon a Stolen Kiss by George Wither

115Caprice by William Dean Howells

144

116Sly Thoughts by Coventry Patmore

117The Whistle by Robert Story

107

118Behave Yoursel' Before Folk by Alexander Rodger

148

119Smile and Never Heed Me by Charles Swain

120The Dule's I' This Bonnet o' Mine (Lancashire Dialect) by Edwin Waugh

134

121A Spinster's Stint by Alice Cary

110

122The Telltale by Elizabeth Akers

253

123Love in the Valley by George Meredith

345

124Thoughts on the Commandments by George Augustus Baker

125The Love-Knot by Nora Perry

141

126The Chess-board by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

134

127Her Letter by Bret Harte

242

128The Plaidie by Charles Sibley

129Kitty of Coleraine by Charles Dawson Shanly

130Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller

133

131The Little Milliner by Robert Buchanan

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132Atalanta's Race: From 'The Earthly Paradise' by William Morris

546

133The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

134The Nymph's Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh

100

135Golden Eyes by Rufinus

136Phillida and Corydon by Nicholas Breton

100

137The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington by Anonymous

167

138Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? by Anonymous

139My Eyes! How I Love You by John Godfrey Saxe

140The Brookside by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

101

141The Little Red Lark by Alfred Perceval Graves

142Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

270

143Somebody by Anonymous

144The Exchange by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

145Love's Logic by Anonymous

126

146The Night-piece by Robert Herrick

147Sweet Meeting of Desires: From 'The Angel in the House' by Coventry Patmore

119

148Story of the Gate by T.H. Robertson

152

149Doris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph Munby

220

150Among the Heather by William Allingham

151Rory O'More; or, All for Good Luck by Samuel Lover

158

152Cooking and Courting by Anonymous

173

153Ca' the Yowes by Isabel Pagan

105

154The Siller Croun by Susanna Blamire

155Duncan Gray Cam' Here to Woo by Robert Burns

125

156How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover

157Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel Lover

158Widow Machree by Samuel Lover

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159Widow Malone by Charles Lever

131

160I'm Not Myself at All by Samuel Lover

155

161I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling

162Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Anonymous

133

163The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell

292

164Popping Corn by Anonymous

131

165The Friar of Orders Gray by Thomas Percy

300

166The Hermit: From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith

468

167The Laird o' Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne

143

168Othello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

217

169The Earl o' Quarterdeck: A New Old Ballad by George MacDonald

365

170Aux Italiens by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

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