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

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

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.