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.
The Future of Poetry by John Vance CheneyWhen in the Chronicle of Wasted Time: Sonnet CVI by William ShakespeareDaybreak by Sir William DavenantShall I Compare Thee?: Sonnet XVIII by William ShakespeareThe Portrait by Thomas HeywoodGive Place, Ye Lovers by Henry Howard, Earl of SurreyTo His Mistress, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia by Sir Henry WottonThe Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide: Sonnet XCIX by William ShakespeareThere Is a Garden in Her Face: From 'An Houre's Recreation in Musicke,' 1606 by AnonymousOlivia: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act I. Sc. 5 by William ShakespearePortia's Picture: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareSong by Mark AkensideTriumph of Charis by Ben JonsonBelinda: From 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander PopeHero's Beauty: From the First Sestiad of 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher MarloweDrink to Me Only with Thine Eyes: From 'The Forest' by Ben JonsonEros Is Missing by MeleagerA Violet in Her Hair by Charles SwainTo Dianeme by Robert HerrickRosalynd by Thomas LodgeDisdain Returned by Thomas CarewTo a Lady Admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass by Thomas RandolphPhillis Is My Only Joy by Sir Charles SedleyConstancy by Sir John SucklingA Vision of Beauty by Ben JonsonTo the Princess Lucretia by Torquato TassoMy Lady by Dante AlighieriVision of a Fair Woman, from the Ancient Erse of Elizabeth A. Sharp's 'Lyra Celtica'Spring by MeleagerSong by Walther von der VogelweideThe Girl of Cadiz by Lord ByronI Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden by Percy Bysshe ShelleyA Budget of Paradoxes by John MartleyLove Dissembled: From 'As You Like It,' Act III. Sc. 5 by William ShakespeareHer Likeness by Dinah Maria Mulock CraikShe Walks in Beauty: From 'Hebrew Melodies' by Lord ByronShe Is Not Fair to Outward View by Hartley ColeridgeVerses Written in an Album by Thomas MooreTo Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William HabingtonTo Helen by Edgar Allan PoeOn a Girdle by Edmund WallerThe White Rose (Sent by a Yorkish Lover to His Lancastrian Mistress) by AnonymousA Song by Thomas CarewGo, Lovely Rose by Edmund WallerWhenas in Silks My Julia Goes by Robert HerrickO, Do Not Wanton with Those Eyes by Ben JonsonBlack and Blue Eyes by Thomas MooreBlue Eyes by John KeatsO, Saw Ye the Lass? by Richard RyanA Health by Edward Coote PinkneyMy Sweetheart's Face by John Allan WyethHer Guitar by Frank Dempster ShermanOn Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster ShermanO, Fairest of the Rural Maids! by William Cullen BryantTo a Lady (On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully) by John James PiattOn the Road to Chorrera by Arlo BatesThe Milking-Maid by Christina Georgina RossettiLovely Mary Donnelly by William AllinghamThe Irish Spinning-Wheel by Alfred Perceval GravesThe Low-Backed Car by Samuel LoverA Gage d'Amour by Austin DobsonAn Experience and a Moral by Frederick Swartwout CozzensAt the Church Gate by William Makepeace ThackerayLove: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareLove Is a Sickness by Samuel DanielThe Shepherd and the King by Robert GreeneLove: From 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher MarloweLove and Woman: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act IV. Sc. 3 by William ShakespeareAh, How Sweet: From 'Tyrannic Love,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by John DrydenWelcome, Welcome, Do I Sing by William BrowneLove: From the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto III by Sir Walter ScottSong by Sir Charles SedleyIf It Be True That Any Beauteous Thing by MichelangeloSonnet by George ChapmanLove's Silence by Sir Philip SidneyWhen Will Love Come? by Pakenham BeattyWhy? by Mary Louise RitterThe Annoyer by Nathaniel Parker WillisThree Loves by Lucy H. HooperLove Scorns Degrees: From 'The Mountain of the Lovers' by Paul Hamilton HayneLove Not Me for Comely Grace by AnonymousLight by Francis W. BourdillonO Mistress Mine: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William ShakespearePhilomela's Ode (That She Sung in Her Arbor) by Robert GreeneA Fiction: How Cupid Made a Nymph Wound Herself with His Arrow by 'A.W.'Wishes for the Supposed Mistress by Richard CrashawA Match by Algernon Charles SwinburneMy Choice by William BrowneA Maiden's Ideal of a Husband: From 'The Contrivances' by Henry CareyRosalynd's Complaint by Thomas LodgeCupid Swallowed by Leigh HuntGreen Grow the Rashes O by Robert BurnsPerfume by Edmund William GosseLife by Lizzie M. LittleKate Temple's Song by Sir James Carnegie, Earl of SoutheskThe First Kiss by Thomas CampbellTell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love by George, Lord LytteltonAthulf and Ethilda by Sir Henry TaylorBlest as the Immortal Gods by SapphoI Dreamt I Saw Great Venus by BionFrancesca da Rimini: From the 'Divina Commedia: Inferno' by Dante AlighieriDinna Ask Me by John DunlopO Swallow, Swallow, Flying South: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord TennysonSong: From 'The Miller's Daughter' by Alfred, Lord TennysonIf Doughty Deeds My Lady Please by Robert Graham of GartmoreThe Kiss by Robert HerrickAn Opal by Ednah Procter Clarke HayesCupid and Campaspe: From 'Alexander and Campaspe,' Act III. Sc. 5 by John LylyKisses by William StrodeLove's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe ShelleyKissing's No Sin by AnonymousSong of the Milkmaid: From 'Queen Mary' by Alfred, Lord TennysonComin' Through the Rye by Robert BurnsWhistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by Robert BurnsSonnet Upon a Stolen Kiss by George WitherCaprice by William Dean HowellsSly Thoughts by Coventry PatmoreThe Whistle by Robert StoryBehave Yoursel' Before Folk by Alexander RodgerSmile and Never Heed Me by Charles SwainThe Dule's I' This Bonnet o' Mine (Lancashire Dialect) by Edwin WaughA Spinster's Stint by Alice CaryThe Telltale by Elizabeth AkersLove in the Valley by George MeredithThoughts on the Commandments by George Augustus BakerThe Love-Knot by Nora PerryThe Chess-board by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)Her Letter by Bret HarteThe Plaidie by Charles SibleyKitty of Coleraine by Charles Dawson ShanlyKitty Neil by John Francis WallerThe Little Milliner by Robert BuchananAtalanta's Race: From 'The Earthly Paradise' by William MorrisThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher MarloweThe Nymph's Reply by Sir Walter RaleighGolden Eyes by RufinusPhillida and Corydon by Nicholas BretonThe Bailiff's Daughter of Islington by AnonymousWhere Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? by AnonymousMy Eyes! How I Love You by John Godfrey SaxeThe Brookside by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord HoughtonThe Little Red Lark by Alfred Perceval GravesLove by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSomebody by AnonymousThe Exchange by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLove's Logic by AnonymousThe Night-piece by Robert HerrickSweet Meeting of Desires: From 'The Angel in the House' by Coventry PatmoreStory of the Gate by T.H. RobertsonDoris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph MunbyAmong the Heather by William AllinghamRory O'More; or, All for Good Luck by Samuel LoverCooking and Courting by AnonymousCa' the Yowes by Isabel PaganThe Siller Croun by Susanna BlamireDuncan Gray Cam' Here to Woo by Robert BurnsHow to Ask and Have by Samuel LoverLive in My Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel LoverWidow Machree by Samuel LoverWidow Malone by Charles LeverI'm Not Myself at All by Samuel LoverI Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John SucklingLove Me Little, Love Me Long by AnonymousThe Courtin' by James Russell LowellPopping Corn by AnonymousThe Friar of Orders Gray by Thomas PercyThe Hermit: From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver GoldsmithThe Laird o' Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Baroness NairneOthello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William ShakespeareThe Earl o' Quarterdeck: A New Old Ballad by George MacDonaldAux Italiens by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
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