World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)
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Length 6 h 1 min
Chapters 170
First published 1904
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
1
The Future of Poetry by John Vance Cheney Read by Anusha Iyer and 4 others 19:00
2
Daybreak by Sir William Davenant Read by Sonia 1:04
3
Shall I Compare Thee?: Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare Read by Lian Pang 1:15
4
The Portrait by Thomas Heywood Read by Anusha Iyer 2:33
5
Give Place, Ye Lovers by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) 2:09
6
To His Mistress, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia by Sir Henry Wotton Read by cathar maiden 1:28
7
The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide: Sonnet XCIX by William Shakespeare Read by Sonia 1:23
8
There Is a Garden in Her Face: From 'An Houre's Recreation in Musicke,' 1606 by Anonymous Read by Gaby 1:45
9
Olivia: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act I. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare Read by Lian Pang 0:44
10
Portia's Picture: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Tomas Peter 1:09
11
Song by Mark Akenside Read by Gaby 1:54
12
Triumph of Charis by Ben Jonson Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) 2:25
13
Belinda: From 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope Read by Lian Pang 1:06
14
Hero's Beauty: From the First Sestiad of 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe Read by Tomas Peter 2:58
15
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes: From 'The Forest' by Ben Jonson Read by Tomas Peter 1:09
16
Eros Is Missing by Meleager Read by Sonia 1:15
17
A Violet in Her Hair by Charles Swain Read by Anusha Iyer 1:16
18
To Dianeme by Robert Herrick Read by Lian Pang 0:53
19
Rosalynd by Thomas Lodge Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) 3:13
20
Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew Read by Sonia 0:56
21
To a Lady Admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph Read by Gaby 2:36
22
Phillis Is My Only Joy by Sir Charles Sedley Read by Tomas Peter 1:20
23
Constancy by Sir John Suckling Read by Anusha Iyer 1:04
24
A Vision of Beauty by Ben Jonson Read by Lian Pang 0:50
25
To the Princess Lucretia by Torquato Tasso Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) 1:42
26
My Lady by Dante Alighieri Read by Anusha Iyer 1:22
27
Vision of a Fair Woman, from the Ancient Erse of Elizabeth A. Sharp's 'Lyra Celtica' Read by Tomas Peter 1:25
28
Spring by Meleager Read by Sonia 1:05
29
Song by Walther von der Vogelweide Read by Gaby 1:59
30
The Girl of Cadiz by Lord Byron Read by Anusha Iyer 3:27
31
I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Lian Pang 0:45
32
A Budget of Paradoxes by John Martley Read by cathar maiden 1:17
33
Love Dissembled: From 'As You Like It,' Act III. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare Read by Anusha Iyer 2:15
34
Her Likeness by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Read by Sonia 1:16
35
She Walks in Beauty: From 'Hebrew Melodies' by Lord Byron Read by Gaby 1:39
36
She Is Not Fair to Outward View by Hartley Coleridge Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) 1:12
37
Verses Written in an Album by Thomas Moore Read by Sonia 0:53
38
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington Read by Tomas Peter 1:17
39
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Tomas Peter 1:02
40
On a Girdle by Edmund Waller Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) 1:09
41
The White Rose (Sent by a Yorkish Lover to His Lancastrian Mistress) by Anonymous Read by Lian Pang 0:47
42
A Song by Thomas Carew Read by Sonia 1:22
43
Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller Read by Tomas Peter 1:21
44
Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes by Robert Herrick Read by Lian Pang 0:44
45
O, Do Not Wanton with Those Eyes by Ben Jonson Read by Sonia 1:00
46
Black and Blue Eyes by Thomas Moore Read by Anusha Iyer 1:23
47
Blue Eyes by John Keats Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) 1:46
48
O, Saw Ye the Lass? by Richard Ryan Read by Tomas Peter 1:19
49
A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney Read by Tomas Peter 1:55
50
My Sweetheart's Face by John Allan Wyeth Read by Lian Pang 1:00
51
Her Guitar by Frank Dempster Sherman Read by Anusha Iyer 2:25
52
On Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster Sherman Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) 1:19
53
O, Fairest of the Rural Maids! by William Cullen Bryant Read by Gaby 1:47
54
To a Lady (On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully) by John James Piatt Read by Lian Pang 0:39
55
On the Road to Chorrera by Arlo Bates Read by Sonia 1:23
56
The Milking-Maid by Christina Georgina Rossetti Read by Anusha Iyer 3:48
57
Lovely Mary Donnelly by William Allingham Read by Tomas Peter 2:48
58
The Irish Spinning-Wheel by Alfred Perceval Graves Read by Craig Franklin 2:05
59
The Low-Backed Car by Samuel Lover Read by Gaby 2:59
60
A Gage d'Amour by Austin Dobson Read by Anusha Iyer 3:45
61
An Experience and a Moral by Frederick Swartwout Cozzens Read by Gaby 2:50
62
At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Craig Franklin 1:35
63
Love: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Lian Pang 0:48
64
Love Is a Sickness by Samuel Daniel Read by Lian Pang 1:00
65
The Shepherd and the King by Robert Greene Read by Sonia 2:26
66
Love: From 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe Read by Gaby 1:18
67
Love and Woman: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act IV. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare Read by Anusha Iyer and 3 others 5:09
68
Ah, How Sweet: From 'Tyrannic Love,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by John Dryden Read by Tomas Peter 1:35
69
Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing by William Browne Read by Lian Pang 1:40
70
Love: From the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott Read by Sonia 1:57
71
Song by Sir Charles Sedley Read by cathar maiden 1:42
72
If It Be True That Any Beauteous Thing by Michelangelo Read by Craig Franklin 1:32
73
Sonnet by George Chapman Read by Anusha Iyer 1:22
74
Love's Silence by Sir Philip Sidney Read by Craig Franklin 1:16
75
When Will Love Come? by Pakenham Beatty Read by cathar maiden 1:08
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Why? by Mary Louise Ritter Read by Anusha Iyer 1:24
77
The Annoyer by Nathaniel Parker Willis Read by Tomas Peter 1:59
78
Three Loves by Lucy H. Hooper Read by Sonia 1:07
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Love Scorns Degrees: From 'The Mountain of the Lovers' by Paul Hamilton Hayne Read by Lian Pang 0:56
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Love Not Me for Comely Grace by Anonymous Read by Anusha Iyer 1:03
81
Light by Francis W. Bourdillon Read by Anusha Iyer 0:49
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O Mistress Mine: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare Read by Tomas Peter 1:28
83
Philomela's Ode (That She Sung in Her Arbor) by Robert Greene Read by Sonia 2:04
84
A Fiction: How Cupid Made a Nymph Wound Herself with His Arrow by 'A.W.' Read by Tomas Peter 3:01
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Wishes for the Supposed Mistress by Richard Crashaw Read by Anusha Iyer 3:19
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A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by cathar maiden 2:20
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My Choice by William Browne Read by Craig Franklin 1:48
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A Maiden's Ideal of a Husband: From 'The Contrivances' by Henry Carey Read by cathar maiden 1:05
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Rosalynd's Complaint by Thomas Lodge Read by Lian Pang 1:46
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Cupid Swallowed by Leigh Hunt Read by Craig Franklin 1:09
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Green Grow the Rashes O by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 1:48
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Perfume by Edmund William Gosse Read by Sonia 1:15
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Life by Lizzie M. Little Read by Anusha Iyer 1:25
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Kate Temple's Song by Sir James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk Read by cathar maiden 1:10
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The First Kiss by Thomas Campbell Read by Sonia 1:35
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Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love by George, Lord Lyttelton Read by Craig Franklin 1:29
97
Athulf and Ethilda by Sir Henry Taylor Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) and 1 other 2:24
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Blest as the Immortal Gods by Sappho Read by Lian Pang 1:17
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I Dreamt I Saw Great Venus by Bion Read by Anusha Iyer 1:39
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Francesca da Rimini: From the 'Divina Commedia: Inferno' by Dante Alighieri Read by Anusha Iyer and 1 other 2:21
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Dinna Ask Me by John Dunlop Read by Tomas Peter 1:12
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O Swallow, Swallow, Flying South: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by cathar maiden 1:58
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Song: From 'The Miller's Daughter' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Lian Pang 1:09
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If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please by Robert Graham of Gartmore Read by Craig Franklin 1:44
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The Kiss by Robert Herrick Read by Anusha Iyer and 2 others 1:51
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An Opal by Ednah Procter Clarke Hayes Read by Sonia 1:07
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Cupid and Campaspe: From 'Alexander and Campaspe,' Act III. Sc. 5 by John Lyly Read by Tomas Peter 1:11
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Kisses by William Strode Read by Anusha Iyer 0:50
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Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Sonia 1:03
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Kissing's No Sin by Anonymous Read by Craig Franklin 0:51
111
Song of the Milkmaid: From 'Queen Mary' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by cathar maiden 1:15
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Comin' Through the Rye by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 1:36
113
Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 2:17
114
Sonnet Upon a Stolen Kiss by George Wither Read by Craig Franklin 1:21
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Caprice by William Dean Howells Read by Anusha Iyer and 1 other 2:24
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Sly Thoughts by Coventry Patmore Read by Anusha Iyer and 1 other 0:48
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The Whistle by Robert Story Read by Anusha Iyer and 2 others 1:47
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Behave Yoursel' Before Folk by Alexander Rodger Read by Tomas Peter 2:28
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Smile and Never Heed Me by Charles Swain Read by cathar maiden 1:07
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The Dule's I' This Bonnet o' Mine (Lancashire Dialect) by Edwin Waugh Read by Craig Franklin 2:14
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A Spinster's Stint by Alice Cary Read by Anusha Iyer 1:50
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The Telltale by Elizabeth Akers Read by Anusha Iyer 4:13
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Love in the Valley by George Meredith Read by Sonia 5:45
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Thoughts on the Commandments by George Augustus Baker Read by Tomas Peter 1:27
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The Love-Knot by Nora Perry Read by Anusha Iyer 2:21
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The Chess-board by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) Read by Anusha Iyer 2:14
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Her Letter by Bret Harte Read by Sonia 4:02
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The Plaidie by Charles Sibley Read by Tomas Peter 1:05
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Kitty of Coleraine by Charles Dawson Shanly Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:22
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Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller Read by Sonia and 1 other 2:13
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The Little Milliner by Robert Buchanan Read by cathar maiden 12:58
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Atalanta's Race: From 'The Earthly Paradise' by William Morris Read by Sonia 9:06
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe Read by Tomas Peter 1:32
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The Nymph's Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh Read by cathar maiden 1:40
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Golden Eyes by Rufinus Read by Craig Franklin 1:10
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Phillida and Corydon by Nicholas Breton Read by Anusha Iyer and 2 others 1:40
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The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington by Anonymous Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:47
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Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? by Anonymous Read by Sonia and 2 others 1:04
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My Eyes! How I Love You by John Godfrey Saxe Read by Craig Franklin 1:31
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The Brookside by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton Read by Sonia 1:41
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The Little Red Lark by Alfred Perceval Graves Read by Sonia 1:16
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Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read by Tomas Peter 4:30
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Somebody by Anonymous Read by Tomas Peter 1:37
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The Exchange by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read by Tomas Peter 0:46
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Love's Logic by Anonymous Read by Anusha Iyer and 4 others 2:06
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The Night-piece by Robert Herrick Read by Craig Franklin 1:16
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Sweet Meeting of Desires: From 'The Angel in the House' by Coventry Patmore Read by Tomas Peter 1:59
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Story of the Gate by T.H. Robertson Read by Anusha Iyer 2:32
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Doris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph Munby Read by Sonia and 1 other 3:40
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Among the Heather by William Allingham Read by cathar maiden 1:36
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Rory O'More; or, All for Good Luck by Samuel Lover Read by cathar maiden and 2 others 2:38
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Cooking and Courting by Anonymous Read by Sonia and 1 other 2:53
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Ca' the Yowes by Isabel Pagan Read by Tomas Peter 1:45
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The Siller Croun by Susanna Blamire Read by Tomas Peter 1:22
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Duncan Gray Cam' Here to Woo by Robert Burns Read by Craig Franklin 2:05
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How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 1:35
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Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel Lover Read by Sonia 1:34
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Widow Machree by Samuel Lover Read by Tomas Peter 1:59
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Widow Malone by Charles Lever Read by Sonia 2:11
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I'm Not Myself at All by Samuel Lover Read by Craig Franklin 2:35
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I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling Read by Anusha Iyer 1:31
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Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Anonymous Read by Sonia 2:13
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The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell Read by Sonia and 2 others 4:52
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Popping Corn by Anonymous Read by cathar maiden and 2 others 2:11
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The Friar of Orders Gray by Thomas Percy Read by Anusha Iyer and 2 others 5:00
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The Hermit: From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith Read by Anusha Iyer and 2 others 7:48
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The Laird o' Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:23
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Othello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare Read by Tomas Peter 3:37
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The Earl o' Quarterdeck: A New Old Ballad by George MacDonald Read by Anusha Iyer and 3 others 6:05
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Aux Italiens by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) Read by Sonia 6:19
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