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

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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. (6 hr 18 min)

Chapters

Let Not Woman E'er Complain by Robert Burns

1:10

Read by Craig Franklin

To Chloe: An Apology for Going into the Country by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pinda…

2:39

Read by Anusha Iyer

A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter

2:56

Read by Leanne Yau

Love's Blindness: Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare

1:31

Read by Jason in Panama

'Full Many a Glorious Morning': Sonnet XXXIII by William Shakespeare

1:23

Read by Leanne Yau

Alexis, Here She Stayed by William Drummond

1:33

Read by Anusha Iyer

Rivalry in Love by William Walsh

1:02

Read by Leanne Yau

My Dear and Only Love by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose

6:12

Read by Tomas Peter

The Faithful Lovers by Anonymous

2:37

Read by Leanne Yau

The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley

3:09

Read by Craig Franklin

Constancy by Anonymous

1:36

Read by Leanne Yau

The Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace Thackeray

2:09

Read by Anusha Iyer

The Common Doom by James Shirley

1:06

Read by Sonia

The Author's Resolution, in a Sonnet: From 'Fair Virtue' by George Wither

2:37

Read by Jason in Panama

Answer to Master Wither's Song, 'Shall I, Wasting in Despair' by Ben Jonson

2:30

Read by Tomas Peter

Forever Unconfessed by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

1:25

Read by Sonia

Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion

1:15

Read by Craig Franklin

Si Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence Stedman

1:18

Read by Sonia

Waiting for the Grapes by William Maginn

2:03

Read by Tomas Peter

Give Me More Love or More Disdain by Thomas Carew

1:12

Read by Leanne Yau

Affaire d'Amour: For E.W.W. by Margaret Deland

1:30

Read by Anusha Iyer

A Renunciation by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford

1:32

Read by Jason in Panama

Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling

1:00

Read by Craig Franklin

A Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne Procter

2:33

Read by Leanne Yau

Not at All, or All in All: From 'Merlin and Vivien' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1:16

Read by Leanne Yau

When Do I See Thee Most?: From 'The House of Life' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1:17

Read by Sonia

Beauty by Lord Edward Thurlow

1:10

Read by Tomas Peter

Love in the Winds by Richard Hovey

1:14

Read by Sonia

Kissing Her Hair by Algernon Charles Swinburne

1:10

Read by Jason in Panama

My Sweet Sweeting: From a MS. Temp. Henry VIII by Anonymous

1:17

Read by Craig Franklin

Lines to an Indian Air: Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley

1:25

Read by Sonia

Serenade: From 'The Spanish Student' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2:14

Read by Tomas Peter

First Love: From 'Don Juan,' Canto I by Lord Byron

3:20

Read by Anusha Iyer

Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2:28

Read by Leanne Yau

I Saw Two Clouds at Morning by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

1:19

Read by Leanne Yau

My Beautiful Lady by Thomas Woolner

2:35

Read by Jason in Panama

My Love (Her Portrait) by Russell Powell Jacoby

0:52

Read by Tomas Peter

A Christmas Scene (or, Love in the Country) by Thomas Osborne Davis

2:55

Read by Craig Franklin

Bedouin Love-Song by Bayard Taylor

1:48

Read by Jason in Panama

Zara's Ear-rings by John Gibson Lockhart

3:32

Read by Anusha Iyer

Hesperia by Algernon Charles Swinburne

8:58

Read by Jason in Panama

Come into the Garden, Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

4:22

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Lochinvar (Lady Heron's Song): From 'Marmion,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott

3:57

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

When Your Beauty Appears by Thomas Parnell

1:11

Read by Sonia

What My Lover Said by Homer Greene

3:15

Read by Sonia

Palabras Cariñosas (Spanish Air) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1:32

Read by Anusha Iyer

Seven Times Three: Love by Jean Ingelow

2:06

Read by Anusha Iyer

When the Kye Comes Hame by James Hogg

3:30

Read by Tomas Peter

The Milkmaid's Song by Sydney Dobell

5:20

Read by Sonia

Sally in Our Alley by Henry Carey

2:39

Read by Craig Franklin

On the Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar

1:45

Read by Tomas Peter

Ganging To and Ganging Frae by Eliza Cook

1:24

Read by Jason in Panama

The Spinning-Wheel Song by John Francis Waller

3:13

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Welcome by Thomas Davis

2:14

Read by Leanne Yau

Fetching Water from the Well by Anonymous

3:32

Read by Craig Franklin

Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

4:41

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Curfew Must Not Ring To-night by Rose Hartwick Thorpe

5:57

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Sleeping Beauty: From 'The Day Dream' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

6:28

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Eve of Saint Agnes by John Keats

22:12

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

So Sweet Love Seemed by Robert Seymour Bridges

1:35

Read by Tomas Peter

Echoes by Thomas Moore

1:03

Read by Sonia

Love's Young Dream: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore

1:57

Read by Anusha Iyer

The Might of One Fair Face by Michelangelo

1:23

Read by Jason in Panama

My True-Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sidney

1:05

Read by Leanne Yau

Were I as Base as Is the Lowly Plain by Joshua Sylvester

1:25

Read by Craig Franklin

When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies by Edward, Lord Lytton

1:30

Read by Sonia

Come, Rest in This Bosom: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore

1:19

Read by Leanne Yau

The Gillyflower of Gold by William Morris

3:42

Read by Tomas Peter

The Landlady's Daughter by Ludwig Uhland

1:53

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore

1:22

Read by Sonia

Forget Thee? by John Moultrie

2:03

Read by Craig Franklin

Renouncement by Alice Meynell

1:22

Read by Anusha Iyer

Love by Robert Browning

0:51

Read by Jason in Panama

Last Night by Christian Winther

2:19

Read by Leanne Yau

Minstrels' Marriage-Song: From 'Oella: A Tragical Interlude' by Thomas Chattert…

1:51

Read by Anusha Iyer

Summer Days by Wathen Marks Wilks Call

2:38

Read by Leanne Yau

Fly to the Desert, Fly with Me: Song of Nourmahal in 'The Light of the Harem' b…

4:18

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

In a Gondola by Robert Browning

11:51

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story

7:04

Read by Sonia

Love by Thomas Kibble Hervey

1:52

Read by Sonia

Keats's Last Sonnet by John Keats

1:23

Read by Anusha Iyer

Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa by Lord Byron

1:46

Read by Craig Franklin

The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor

2:35

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

To Fidessa by Bartholomew Griffin

1:29

Read by Tomas Peter

Meeting at Night by Robert Browning

1:11

Read by Anusha Iyer

Charlie Machree by William J. Hoppin

3:04

Read by Sonia

Hope Deferred by Anonymous

1:29

Read by Jason in Panama

The Old Maid by George Barlow

1:22

Read by Sonia

The Loveliness of Love by George Darley

2:22

Read by Leanne Yau

To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe

1:38

Read by Tomas Peter

An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley

3:36

Read by Craig Franklin

Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor

0:53

Read by Jason in Panama

Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds: Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare

1:24

Read by Anusha Iyer

Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

8:25

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Sonnets by James Russell Lowell

3:02

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

My Love by James Russell Lowell

2:46

Read by Craig Franklin

Adam Describing Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VIII by John Milton

5:19

Read by Tomas Peter

Adam to Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton

2:20

Read by Jason in Panama

Brutus and Portia: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

4:22

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Lord Walter's Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

5:15

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Paulina's Appeal: From 'Polyeucte' by Pierre Corneille

3:33

Read by Sonia

The Wife of Loki by Lady Charlotte Elliot

1:55

Read by Sonia

Like a Laverock in the Lift by Jean Ingelow

1:42

Read by Anusha Iyer

Were I But His Own Wife by Mary Downing

2:10

Read by Anusha Iyer

Two Lovers by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)

2:16

Read by Anusha Iyer

In Twos by William Channing Gannett

2:19

Read by Jason in Panama

Hebrew Wedding: From 'The Fall of Jerusalem' by Henry Hart Milman

2:09

Read by Tomas Peter

The Wedding-Day: From 'Epithalamion' by Edmund Spenser

5:58

Read by Craig Franklin

The Bride: From 'A Ballad Upon a Wedding' by Sir John Suckling

2:02

Read by Tomas Peter

Song: From an Old Song, 'Woo'd and Married and A'' by Joanna Baillie

3:35

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Newly-Wedded by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

1:23

Read by Sonia

The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunningham

3:03

Read by Jason in Panama

Thou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie by Allan Cunningham

2:07

Read by Craig Franklin

Possession by Bayard Taylor

2:33

Read by Tomas Peter

My Ain Wife by Alexander Laing

1:17

Read by Craig Franklin

My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns

1:09

Read by Jason in Panama

The Poet's Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

1:23

Read by Leanne Yau

The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert Burns

1:17

Read by Tomas Peter

She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth

2:06

Read by Anusha Iyer

Possession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

1:30

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay

1:17

Read by Leanne Yau

Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore

1:55

Read by Sonia

A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous

2:37

Read by Leanne Yau

Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous

2:32

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson

2:56

Read by Craig Franklin

The Retort by George Pope Morris

1:24

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Eggs and the Horses: A Matrimonial Epic by Anonymous

7:44

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe

0:41

Read by Anusha Iyer

The Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox Bennett

3:37

Read by Jason in Panama

If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald Heber

2:05

Read by Tomas Peter

There's Nae Luck About the House by Jean Adam

2:28

Read by Tomas Peter

Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley

0:54

Read by Craig Franklin

O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey

2:10

Read by Sonia

Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale

1:29

Read by Jason in Panama

Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly

2:01

Read by Anusha Iyer

The Golden Wedding by David Gray

1:51

Read by Craig Franklin

The Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Ea…

1:03

Read by Sonia

Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton

1:19

Read by Leanne Yau

Laodamia by William Wordsworth

11:12

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

1:33

Read by Jason in Panama

The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes

2:34

Read by Sonia

John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns

1:35

Read by Tomas Peter