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

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

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.