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

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.

Year of Publication: 1904Genres: Anthologies

Running Time: 06 hours 18 minutes 34 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Let Not Woman E'er Complain by Robert Burns Craig Franklin	1:10
2	To Chloe: An Apology for Going into the Country by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) Anusha Iyer	2:39
3	A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter Leanne Yau	2:56
4	Love's Blindness: Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare Jason in Panama	1:31
5	'Full Many a Glorious Morning': Sonnet XXXIII by William Shakespeare Leanne Yau	1:23
6	Alexis, Here She Stayed by William Drummond Anusha Iyer	1:33
7	Rivalry in Love by William Walsh Leanne Yau	1:02
8	My Dear and Only Love by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose Tomas Peter	6:12
9	The Faithful Lovers by Anonymous Leanne Yau	2:37
10	The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley Craig Franklin	3:09
11	Constancy by Anonymous Leanne Yau	1:36
12	The Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace Thackeray Anusha Iyer	2:09
13	The Common Doom by James Shirley Sonia	1:06
14	The Author's Resolution, in a Sonnet: From 'Fair Virtue' by George Wither Jason in Panama	2:37
15	Answer to Master Wither's Song, 'Shall I, Wasting in Despair' by Ben Jonson Tomas Peter	2:30
16	Forever Unconfessed by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton Sonia	1:25
17	Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion Craig Franklin	1:15
18	Si Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence Stedman Sonia	1:18
19	Waiting for the Grapes by William Maginn Tomas Peter	2:03
20	Give Me More Love or More Disdain by Thomas Carew Leanne Yau	1:12
21	Affaire d'Amour: For E.W.W. by Margaret Deland Anusha Iyer	1:30
22	A Renunciation by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford Jason in Panama	1:32
23	Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling Craig Franklin	1:00
24	A Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne Procter Leanne Yau	2:33
25	Not at All, or All in All: From 'Merlin and Vivien' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Leanne Yau	1:16
26	When Do I See Thee Most?: From 'The House of Life' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sonia	1:17
27	Beauty by Lord Edward Thurlow Tomas Peter	1:10
28	Love in the Winds by Richard Hovey Sonia	1:14
29	Kissing Her Hair by Algernon Charles Swinburne Jason in Panama	1:10
30	My Sweet Sweeting: From a MS. Temp. Henry VIII by Anonymous Craig Franklin	1:17
31	Lines to an Indian Air: Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley Sonia	1:25
32	Serenade: From 'The Spanish Student' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tomas Peter	2:14
33	First Love: From 'Don Juan,' Canto I by Lord Byron Anusha Iyer	3:20
34	Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Leanne Yau	2:28
35	I Saw Two Clouds at Morning by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Leanne Yau	1:19
36	My Beautiful Lady by Thomas Woolner Jason in Panama	2:35
37	My Love (Her Portrait) by Russell Powell Jacoby Tomas Peter	0:52
38	A Christmas Scene (or, Love in the Country) by Thomas Osborne Davis Craig Franklin	2:55
39	Bedouin Love-Song by Bayard Taylor Jason in Panama	1:48
40	Zara's Ear-rings by John Gibson Lockhart Anusha Iyer	3:32
41	Hesperia by Algernon Charles Swinburne Jason in Panama	8:58
42	Come into the Garden, Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Anusha Iyer	4:22
43	Lochinvar (Lady Heron's Song): From 'Marmion,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott Anusha Iyer	3:57
44	When Your Beauty Appears by Thomas Parnell Sonia	1:11
45	What My Lover Said by Homer Greene Sonia	3:15
46	Palabras Cariñosas (Spanish Air) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Anusha Iyer	1:32
47	Seven Times Three: Love by Jean Ingelow Anusha Iyer	2:06
48	When the Kye Comes Hame by James Hogg Tomas Peter	3:30
49	The Milkmaid's Song by Sydney Dobell Sonia	5:20
50	Sally in Our Alley by Henry Carey Craig Franklin	2:39
51	On the Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar Tomas Peter	1:45
52	Ganging To and Ganging Frae by Eliza Cook Jason in Panama	1:24
53	The Spinning-Wheel Song by John Francis Waller Anusha Iyer	3:13
54	The Welcome by Thomas Davis Leanne Yau	2:14
55	Fetching Water from the Well by Anonymous Craig Franklin	3:32
56	Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Anusha Iyer	4:41
57	Curfew Must Not Ring To-night by Rose Hartwick Thorpe Anusha Iyer	5:57
58	The Sleeping Beauty: From 'The Day Dream' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Leanne Yau	6:28
59	The Eve of Saint Agnes by John Keats Anusha Iyer	22:12
60	So Sweet Love Seemed by Robert Seymour Bridges Tomas Peter	1:35
61	Echoes by Thomas Moore Sonia	1:03
62	Love's Young Dream: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore Anusha Iyer	1:57
63	The Might of One Fair Face by Michelangelo Jason in Panama	1:23
64	My True-Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sidney Leanne Yau	1:05
65	Were I as Base as Is the Lowly Plain by Joshua Sylvester Craig Franklin	1:25
66	When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies by Edward, Lord Lytton Sonia	1:30
67	Come, Rest in This Bosom: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore Leanne Yau	1:19
68	The Gillyflower of Gold by William Morris Tomas Peter	3:42
69	The Landlady's Daughter by Ludwig Uhland Sonia	1:53
70	Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore Sonia	1:22
71	Forget Thee? by John Moultrie Craig Franklin	2:03
72	Renouncement by Alice Meynell Anusha Iyer	1:22
73	Love by Robert Browning Jason in Panama	0:51
74	Last Night by Christian Winther Leanne Yau	2:19
75	Minstrels' Marriage-Song: From 'Oella: A Tragical Interlude' by Thomas Chatterton Anusha Iyer	1:51
76	Summer Days by Wathen Marks Wilks Call Leanne Yau	2:38
77	Fly to the Desert, Fly with Me: Song of Nourmahal in 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore Anusha Iyer	4:18
78	In a Gondola by Robert Browning Sonia	11:51
79	Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story Sonia	7:04
80	Love by Thomas Kibble Hervey Sonia	1:52
81	Keats's Last Sonnet by John Keats Anusha Iyer	1:23
82	Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa by Lord Byron Craig Franklin	1:46
83	The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor Anusha Iyer	2:35
84	To Fidessa by Bartholomew Griffin Tomas Peter	1:29
85	Meeting at Night by Robert Browning Anusha Iyer	1:11
86	Charlie Machree by William J. Hoppin Sonia	3:04
87	Hope Deferred by Anonymous Jason in Panama	1:29
88	The Old Maid by George Barlow Sonia	1:22
89	The Loveliness of Love by George Darley Leanne Yau	2:22
90	To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe Tomas Peter	1:38
91	An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley Craig Franklin	3:36
92	Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor Jason in Panama	0:53
93	Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds: Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare Anusha Iyer	1:24
94	Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Anusha Iyer	8:25
95	Sonnets by James Russell Lowell Sonia	3:02
96	My Love by James Russell Lowell Craig Franklin	2:46
97	Adam Describing Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VIII by John Milton Tomas Peter	5:19
98	Adam to Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton Jason in Panama	2:20
99	Brutus and Portia: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Leanne Yau	4:22
100	Lord Walter's Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Anusha Iyer	5:15
101	Paulina's Appeal: From 'Polyeucte' by Pierre Corneille Sonia	3:33
102	The Wife of Loki by Lady Charlotte Elliot Sonia	1:55
103	Like a Laverock in the Lift by Jean Ingelow Anusha Iyer	1:42
104	Were I But His Own Wife by Mary Downing Anusha Iyer	2:10
105	Two Lovers by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot) Anusha Iyer	2:16
106	In Twos by William Channing Gannett Jason in Panama	2:19
107	Hebrew Wedding: From 'The Fall of Jerusalem' by Henry Hart Milman Tomas Peter	2:09
108	The Wedding-Day: From 'Epithalamion' by Edmund Spenser Craig Franklin	5:58
109	The Bride: From 'A Ballad Upon a Wedding' by Sir John Suckling Tomas Peter	2:02
110	Song: From an Old Song, 'Woo'd and Married and A'' by Joanna Baillie Sonia	3:35
111	The Newly-Wedded by Winthrop Mackworth Praed Sonia	1:23
112	The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunningham Jason in Panama	3:03
113	Thou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie by Allan Cunningham Craig Franklin	2:07
114	Possession by Bayard Taylor Tomas Peter	2:33
115	My Ain Wife by Alexander Laing Craig Franklin	1:17
116	My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns Jason in Panama	1:09
117	The Poet's Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Leanne Yau	1:23
118	The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert Burns Tomas Peter	1:17
119	She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth Anusha Iyer	2:06
120	Possession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) Anusha Iyer	1:30
121	My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay Leanne Yau	1:17
122	Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore Sonia	1:55
123	A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous Leanne Yau	2:37
124	Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous Anusha Iyer	2:32
125	Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson Craig Franklin	2:56
126	The Retort by George Pope Morris Anusha Iyer	1:24
127	The Eggs and the Horses: A Matrimonial Epic by Anonymous Anusha Iyer	7:44
128	Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe Anusha Iyer	0:41
129	The Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox Bennett Jason in Panama	3:37
130	If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald Heber Tomas Peter	2:05
131	There's Nae Luck About the House by Jean Adam Tomas Peter	2:28
132	Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley Craig Franklin	0:54
133	O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey Sonia	2:10
134	Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale Jason in Panama	1:29
135	Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly Anusha Iyer	2:01
136	The Golden Wedding by David Gray Craig Franklin	1:51
137	The Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset Sonia	1:03
138	Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton Leanne Yau	1:19
139	Laodamia by William Wordsworth Anusha Iyer	11:12
140	'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Jason in Panama	1:33
141	The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sonia	2:34
142	John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns Tomas Peter	1:35