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.
Let Not Woman E'er Complain by Robert BurnsTo Chloe: An Apology for Going into the Country by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne ProcterLove's Blindness: Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare'Full Many a Glorious Morning': Sonnet XXXIII by William ShakespeareAlexis, Here She Stayed by William DrummondRivalry in Love by William WalshMy Dear and Only Love by James Graham, Marquis of MontroseThe Faithful Lovers by AnonymousThe Chronicle by Abraham CowleyConstancy by AnonymousThe Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Common Doom by James ShirleyThe Author's Resolution, in a Sonnet: From 'Fair Virtue' by George WitherAnswer to Master Wither's Song, 'Shall I, Wasting in Despair' by Ben JonsonForever Unconfessed by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord HoughtonAdvice to a Girl by Thomas CampionSi Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence StedmanWaiting for the Grapes by William MaginnGive Me More Love or More Disdain by Thomas CarewAffaire d'Amour: For E.W.W. by Margaret DelandA Renunciation by Edward Vere, Earl of OxfordWhy So Pale and Wan? by Sir John SucklingA Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne ProcterNot at All, or All in All: From 'Merlin and Vivien' by Alfred, Lord TennysonWhen Do I See Thee Most?: From 'The House of Life' by Dante Gabriel RossettiBeauty by Lord Edward ThurlowLove in the Winds by Richard HoveyKissing Her Hair by Algernon Charles SwinburneMy Sweet Sweeting: From a MS. 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Henry VIII by AnonymousLines to an Indian Air: Serenade by Percy Bysshe ShelleySerenade: From 'The Spanish Student' by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFirst Love: From 'Don Juan,' Canto I by Lord ByronSir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord TennysonI Saw Two Clouds at Morning by John Gardiner Calkins BrainardMy Beautiful Lady by Thomas WoolnerMy Love (Her Portrait) by Russell Powell JacobyA Christmas Scene (or, Love in the Country) by Thomas Osborne DavisBedouin Love-Song by Bayard TaylorZara's Ear-rings by John Gibson LockhartHesperia by Algernon Charles SwinburneCome into the Garden, Maud by Alfred, Lord TennysonLochinvar (Lady Heron's Song): From 'Marmion,' Canto V by Sir Walter ScottWhen Your Beauty Appears by Thomas ParnellWhat My Lover Said by Homer GreenePalabras Cariñosas (Spanish Air) by Thomas Bailey AldrichSeven Times Three: Love by Jean IngelowWhen the Kye Comes Hame by James HoggThe Milkmaid's Song by Sydney DobellSally in Our Alley by Henry CareyOn the Road by Paul Laurence DunbarGanging To and Ganging Frae by Eliza CookThe Spinning-Wheel Song by John Francis WallerThe Welcome by Thomas DavisFetching Water from the Well by AnonymousLady Clare by Alfred, Lord TennysonCurfew Must Not Ring To-night by Rose Hartwick ThorpeThe Sleeping Beauty: From 'The Day Dream' by Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Eve of Saint Agnes by John KeatsSo Sweet Love Seemed by Robert Seymour BridgesEchoes by Thomas MooreLove's Young Dream: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas MooreThe Might of One Fair Face by MichelangeloMy True-Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip SidneyWere I as Base as Is the Lowly Plain by Joshua SylvesterWhen Stars Are in the Quiet Skies by Edward, Lord LyttonCome, Rest in This Bosom: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas MooreThe Gillyflower of Gold by William MorrisThe Landlady's Daughter by Ludwig UhlandBelieve Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas MooreForget Thee? by John MoultrieRenouncement by Alice MeynellLove by Robert BrowningLast Night by Christian WintherMinstrels' Marriage-Song: From 'Oella: A Tragical Interlude' by Thomas ChattertonSummer Days by Wathen Marks Wilks CallFly to the Desert, Fly with Me: Song of Nourmahal in 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas MooreIn a Gondola by Robert BrowningCleopatra by William Wetmore StoryLove by Thomas Kibble HerveyKeats's Last Sonnet by John KeatsStanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa by Lord ByronThe Song of the Camp by Bayard TaylorTo Fidessa by Bartholomew GriffinMeeting at Night by Robert BrowningCharlie Machree by William J. HoppinHope Deferred by AnonymousThe Old Maid by George BarlowThe Loveliness of Love by George DarleyTo One in Paradise by Edgar Allan PoeAn Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb RileyRose Aylmer by Walter Savage LandorLet Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds: Sonnet CXVI by William ShakespeareSonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnets by James Russell LowellMy Love by James Russell LowellAdam Describing Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VIII by John MiltonAdam to Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John MiltonBrutus and Portia: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William ShakespeareLord Walter's Wife by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPaulina's Appeal: From 'Polyeucte' by Pierre CorneilleThe Wife of Loki by Lady Charlotte ElliotLike a Laverock in the Lift by Jean IngelowWere I But His Own Wife by Mary DowningTwo Lovers by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)In Twos by William Channing GannettHebrew Wedding: From 'The Fall of Jerusalem' by Henry Hart MilmanThe Wedding-Day: From 'Epithalamion' by Edmund SpenserThe Bride: From 'A Ballad Upon a Wedding' by Sir John SucklingSong: From an Old Song, 'Woo'd and Married and A'' by Joanna BaillieThe Newly-Wedded by Winthrop Mackworth PraedThe Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan CunninghamThou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie by Allan CunninghamPossession by Bayard TaylorMy Ain Wife by Alexander LaingMy Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert BurnsThe Poet's Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert BurnsShe Was a Phantom of Delight by William WordsworthPossession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)My Heart Is a Lute by Lady LindsayReunited Love by Richard Doddridge BlackmoreA Woman's Complaint by AnonymousLove Lightens Labor by AnonymousConnubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James ThomsonThe Retort by George Pope MorrisThe Eggs and the Horses: A Matrimonial Epic by AnonymousWoman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey SaxeThe Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox BennettIf Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald HeberThere's Nae Luck About the House by Jean AdamDolcino to Margaret by Charles KingsleyO Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald MasseyFaith and Hope by Rembrandt PealeDarby and Joan by Frederic Edward WeatherlyThe Golden Wedding by David GrayThe Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Earl of DorsetNot Ours the Vows by Bernard BartonLaodamia by William Wordsworth'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn StanleyThe Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell HolmesJohn Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns
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