World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2)
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Length 6 h 19 min
Chapters 142
First published 1904
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.
Chapters
1
Let Not Woman E'er Complain by Robert Burns Read by Craig Franklin 1:10
2
To Chloe: An Apology for Going into the Country by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) Read by Anusha Iyer 2:39
3
A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter Read by Leanne Yau 2:56
4
Love's Blindness: Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare Read by Jason in Panama 1:31
5
'Full Many a Glorious Morning': Sonnet XXXIII by William Shakespeare Read by Leanne Yau 1:23
6
Alexis, Here She Stayed by William Drummond Read by Anusha Iyer 1:33
7
Rivalry in Love by William Walsh Read by Leanne Yau 1:02
8
My Dear and Only Love by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose Read by Tomas Peter 6:12
9
The Faithful Lovers by Anonymous Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 2:37
10
The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley Read by Craig Franklin 3:09
11
Constancy by Anonymous Read by Leanne Yau 1:36
12
The Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Anusha Iyer 2:09
13
The Common Doom by James Shirley Read by Sonia 1:06
14
The Author's Resolution, in a Sonnet: From 'Fair Virtue' by George Wither Read by Jason in Panama 2:37
15
Answer to Master Wither's Song, 'Shall I, Wasting in Despair' by Ben Jonson Read by Tomas Peter 2:30
16
Forever Unconfessed by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton Read by Sonia 1:25
17
Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion Read by Craig Franklin 1:15
18
Si Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence Stedman Read by Sonia 1:18
19
Waiting for the Grapes by William Maginn Read by Tomas Peter 2:03
20
Give Me More Love or More Disdain by Thomas Carew Read by Leanne Yau 1:12
21
Affaire d'Amour: For E.W.W. by Margaret Deland Read by Anusha Iyer 1:30
22
A Renunciation by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford Read by Jason in Panama 1:32
23
Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling Read by Craig Franklin 1:00
24
A Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne Procter Read by Leanne Yau 2:33
25
Not at All, or All in All: From 'Merlin and Vivien' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Leanne Yau 1:16
26
When Do I See Thee Most?: From 'The House of Life' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Read by Sonia 1:17
27
Beauty by Lord Edward Thurlow Read by Tomas Peter 1:10
28
Love in the Winds by Richard Hovey Read by Sonia 1:14
29
Kissing Her Hair by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Jason in Panama 1:10
30
My Sweet Sweeting: From a MS. Temp. Henry VIII by Anonymous Read by Craig Franklin 1:17
31
Lines to an Indian Air: Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Sonia 1:25
32
Serenade: From 'The Spanish Student' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Tomas Peter 2:14
33
First Love: From 'Don Juan,' Canto I by Lord Byron Read by Anusha Iyer 3:20
34
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Leanne Yau 2:28
35
I Saw Two Clouds at Morning by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Read by Leanne Yau 1:19
36
My Beautiful Lady by Thomas Woolner Read by Jason in Panama 2:35
37
My Love (Her Portrait) by Russell Powell Jacoby Read by Tomas Peter 0:52
38
A Christmas Scene (or, Love in the Country) by Thomas Osborne Davis Read by Craig Franklin 2:55
39
Bedouin Love-Song by Bayard Taylor Read by Jason in Panama 1:48
40
Zara's Ear-rings by John Gibson Lockhart Read by Anusha Iyer 3:32
41
Hesperia by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Jason in Panama 8:58
42
Come into the Garden, Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Anusha Iyer and 4 others 4:22
43
Lochinvar (Lady Heron's Song): From 'Marmion,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott Read by Anusha Iyer and 3 others 3:57
44
When Your Beauty Appears by Thomas Parnell Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:11
45
What My Lover Said by Homer Greene Read by Sonia 3:15
46
Palabras Cariñosas (Spanish Air) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Read by Anusha Iyer 1:32
47
Seven Times Three: Love by Jean Ingelow Read by Anusha Iyer 2:06
48
When the Kye Comes Hame by James Hogg Read by Tomas Peter 3:30
49
The Milkmaid's Song by Sydney Dobell Read by Sonia 5:20
50
Sally in Our Alley by Henry Carey Read by Craig Franklin 2:39
51
On the Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Tomas Peter 1:45
52
Ganging To and Ganging Frae by Eliza Cook Read by Jason in Panama 1:24
53
The Spinning-Wheel Song by John Francis Waller Read by Anusha Iyer and 3 others 3:13
54
The Welcome by Thomas Davis Read by Leanne Yau 2:14
55
Fetching Water from the Well by Anonymous Read by Craig Franklin 3:32
56
Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Anusha Iyer and 3 others 4:41
57
Curfew Must Not Ring To-night by Rose Hartwick Thorpe Read by Anusha Iyer and 5 others 5:57
58
The Sleeping Beauty: From 'The Day Dream' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Leanne Yau and 3 others 6:28
59
The Eve of Saint Agnes by John Keats Read by Anusha Iyer and 3 others 22:12
60
So Sweet Love Seemed by Robert Seymour Bridges Read by Tomas Peter 1:35
61
Echoes by Thomas Moore Read by Sonia 1:03
62
Love's Young Dream: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore Read by Anusha Iyer 1:57
63
The Might of One Fair Face by Michelangelo Read by Jason in Panama 1:23
64
My True-Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sidney Read by Leanne Yau 1:05
65
Were I as Base as Is the Lowly Plain by Joshua Sylvester Read by Craig Franklin 1:25
66
When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies by Edward, Lord Lytton Read by Sonia 1:30
67
Come, Rest in This Bosom: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore Read by Leanne Yau 1:19
68
The Gillyflower of Gold by William Morris Read by Tomas Peter 3:42
69
The Landlady's Daughter by Ludwig Uhland Read by Sonia and 4 others 1:53
70
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore Read by Sonia 1:22
71
Forget Thee? by John Moultrie Read by Craig Franklin 2:03
72
Renouncement by Alice Meynell Read by Anusha Iyer 1:22
73
Love by Robert Browning Read by Jason in Panama 0:51
74
Last Night by Christian Winther Read by Leanne Yau 2:19
75
Minstrels' Marriage-Song: From 'Oella: A Tragical Interlude' by Thomas Chatterton Read by Anusha Iyer and 1 other 1:51
76
Summer Days by Wathen Marks Wilks Call Read by Leanne Yau 2:38
77
Fly to the Desert, Fly with Me: Song of Nourmahal in 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore Read by Anusha Iyer and 2 others 4:18
78
In a Gondola by Robert Browning Read by Sonia and 2 others 11:51
79
Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story Read by Sonia 7:04
80
Love by Thomas Kibble Hervey Read by Sonia 1:52
81
Keats's Last Sonnet by John Keats Read by Anusha Iyer 1:23
82
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa by Lord Byron Read by Craig Franklin 1:46
83
The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor Read by Anusha Iyer and 2 others 2:35
84
To Fidessa by Bartholomew Griffin Read by Tomas Peter 1:29
85
Meeting at Night by Robert Browning Read by Anusha Iyer 1:11
86
Charlie Machree by William J. Hoppin Read by Sonia 3:04
87
Hope Deferred by Anonymous Read by Jason in Panama 1:29
88
The Old Maid by George Barlow Read by Sonia 1:22
89
The Loveliness of Love by George Darley Read by Leanne Yau 2:22
90
To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Tomas Peter 1:38
91
An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley Read by Craig Franklin 3:36
92
Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor Read by Jason in Panama 0:53
93
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds: Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare Read by Anusha Iyer 1:24
94
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Anusha Iyer and 5 others 8:25
95
Sonnets by James Russell Lowell Read by Sonia and 2 others 3:02
96
My Love by James Russell Lowell Read by Craig Franklin 2:46
97
Adam Describing Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VIII by John Milton Read by Tomas Peter 5:19
98
Adam to Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton Read by Jason in Panama 2:20
99
Brutus and Portia: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 4:22
100
Lord Walter's Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Anusha Iyer and 2 others 5:15
101
Paulina's Appeal: From 'Polyeucte' by Pierre Corneille Read by Sonia and 1 other 3:33
102
The Wife of Loki by Lady Charlotte Elliot Read by Sonia 1:55
103
Like a Laverock in the Lift by Jean Ingelow Read by Anusha Iyer 1:42
104
Were I But His Own Wife by Mary Downing Read by Anusha Iyer 2:10
105
Two Lovers by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot) Read by Anusha Iyer 2:16
106
In Twos by William Channing Gannett Read by Jason in Panama 2:19
107
Hebrew Wedding: From 'The Fall of Jerusalem' by Henry Hart Milman Read by Tomas Peter 2:09
108
The Wedding-Day: From 'Epithalamion' by Edmund Spenser Read by Craig Franklin 5:58
109
The Bride: From 'A Ballad Upon a Wedding' by Sir John Suckling Read by Tomas Peter 2:02
110
Song: From an Old Song, 'Woo'd and Married and A'' by Joanna Baillie Read by Sonia and 3 others 3:35
111
The Newly-Wedded by Winthrop Mackworth Praed Read by Sonia 1:23
112
The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunningham Read by Jason in Panama 3:03
113
Thou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie by Allan Cunningham Read by Craig Franklin 2:07
114
Possession by Bayard Taylor Read by Tomas Peter 2:33
115
My Ain Wife by Alexander Laing Read by Craig Franklin 1:17
116
My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns Read by Jason in Panama 1:09
117
The Poet's Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Read by Leanne Yau 1:23
118
The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 1:17
119
She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth Read by Anusha Iyer 2:06
120
Possession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) Read by Anusha Iyer and 2 others 1:30
121
My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay Read by Leanne Yau 1:17
122
Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:55
123
A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous Read by Leanne Yau 2:37
124
Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous Read by Anusha Iyer and 3 others 2:32
125
Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson Read by Craig Franklin 2:56
126
The Retort by George Pope Morris Read by Anusha Iyer and 2 others 1:24
127
The Eggs and the Horses: A Matrimonial Epic by Anonymous Read by Anusha Iyer and 5 others 7:44
128
Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe Read by Anusha Iyer 0:41
129
The Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox Bennett Read by Jason in Panama 3:37
130
If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald Heber Read by Tomas Peter 2:05
131
There's Nae Luck About the House by Jean Adam Read by Tomas Peter 2:28
132
Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley Read by Craig Franklin 0:54
133
O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey Read by Sonia 2:10
134
Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale Read by Jason in Panama 1:29
135
Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly Read by Anusha Iyer 2:01
136
The Golden Wedding by David Gray Read by Craig Franklin 1:51
137
The Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset Read by Sonia 1:03
138
Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton Read by Leanne Yau 1:19
139
Laodamia by William Wordsworth Read by Anusha Iyer and 3 others 11:12
140
'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Read by Jason in Panama 1:33
141
The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read by Sonia and 1 other 2:34
142
John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 1:35
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