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World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1), The by Various — 171 episodes
Sonnet by George Chapman
Love's Silence by Sir Philip Sidney
If It Be True That Any Beauteous Thing by Michelangelo
When Will Love Come? by Pakenham Beatty
O Mistress Mine: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
The Annoyer by Nathaniel Parker Willis
Love Not Me for Comely Grace by Anonymous
A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Why? by Mary Louise Ritter
The First Kiss by Thomas Campbell
Light by Francis W. Bourdillon
Philomela's Ode (That She Sung in Her Arbor) by Robert Greene
Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
My Choice by William Browne
Three Loves by Lucy H. Hooper
A Maiden's Ideal of a Husband: From 'The Contrivances' by Henry Carey
Rosalynd's Complaint by Thomas Lodge
Love Scorns Degrees: From 'The Mountain of the Lovers' by Paul Hamilton Hayne
I Dreamt I Saw Great Venus by Bion
Kisses by William Strode
Green Grow the Rashes O by Robert Burns
A Fiction: How Cupid Made a Nymph Wound Herself with His Arrow by 'A.W.'
Kate Temple's Song by Sir James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk
Athulf and Ethilda by Sir Henry Taylor
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress by Richard Crashaw
Song of the Milkmaid: From 'Queen Mary' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Cupid Swallowed by Leigh Hunt
Sonnet Upon a Stolen Kiss by George Wither
Life by Lizzie M. Little
Perfume by Edmund William Gosse
Smile and Never Heed Me by Charles Swain
Cupid and Campaspe: From 'Alexander and Campaspe,' Act III. Sc. 5 by John Lyly
The Chess-board by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by Robert Burns
Blest as the Immortal Gods by Sappho
The Love-Knot by Nora Perry
Kitty of Coleraine by Charles Dawson Shanly
Comin' Through the Rye by Robert Burns
Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love by George, Lord Lyttelton
Francesca da Rimini: From the 'Divina Commedia: Inferno' by Dante Alighieri
Sly Thoughts by Coventry Patmore
Dinna Ask Me by John Dunlop
Behave Yoursel' Before Folk by Alexander Rodger
O Swallow, Swallow, Flying South: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Little Milliner by Robert Buchanan
The Whistle by Robert Story
Caprice by William Dean Howells
The Dule's I' This Bonnet o' Mine (Lancashire Dialect) by Edwin Waugh
Love in the Valley by George Meredith
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington by Anonymous
Song: From 'The Miller's Daughter' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Her Letter by Bret Harte
Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller
If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please by Robert Graham of Gartmore
The Plaidie by Charles Sibley
The Telltale by Elizabeth Akers
A Spinster's Stint by Alice Cary
The Little Red Lark by Alfred Perceval Graves
Atalanta's Race: From 'The Earthly Paradise' by William Morris
The Brookside by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
Somebody by Anonymous
How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover
Widow Malone by Charles Lever
The Exchange by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Kiss by Robert Herrick
The Night-piece by Robert Herrick
Golden Eyes by Rufinus
Othello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
Phillida and Corydon by Nicholas Breton
My Eyes! How I Love You by John Godfrey Saxe
Kissing's No Sin by Anonymous
An Opal by Ednah Procter Clarke Hayes
Love's Logic by Anonymous
Sweet Meeting of Desires: From 'The Angel in the House' by Coventry Patmore
Doris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph Munby
Story of the Gate by T.H. Robertson
Duncan Gray Cam' Here to Woo by Robert Burns
Thoughts on the Commandments by George Augustus Baker
Popping Corn by Anonymous
Ca' the Yowes by Isabel Pagan
The Siller Croun by Susanna Blamire
Cooking and Courting by Anonymous
Among the Heather by William Allingham
The Hermit: From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith
The Laird o' Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne
The Nymph's Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh
Rory O'More; or, All for Good Luck by Samuel Lover
I'm Not Myself at All by Samuel Lover
Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel Lover
Aux Italiens by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
Widow Machree by Samuel Lover
The Earl o' Quarterdeck: A New Old Ballad by George MacDonald
Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? by Anonymous
I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling
The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell
The Friar of Orders Gray by Thomas Percy
Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Anonymous
The Portrait by Thomas Heywood
To His Mistress, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia by Sir Henry Wotton
To Dianeme by Robert Herrick
There Is a Garden in Her Face: From 'An Houre's Recreation in Musicke,' 1606 by Anonymous
Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew
She Walks in Beauty: From 'Hebrew Melodies' by Lord Byron
Eros Is Missing by Meleager
Verses Written in an Album by Thomas Moore
Olivia: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act I. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare
O, Do Not Wanton with Those Eyes by Ben Jonson
Shall I Compare Thee?: Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare
Ah, How Sweet: From 'Tyrannic Love,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by John Dryden
To a Lady Admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph
Phillis Is My Only Joy by Sir Charles Sedley
Hero's Beauty: From the First Sestiad of 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe
Song by Sir Charles Sedley
The Irish Spinning-Wheel by Alfred Perceval Graves
Portia's Picture: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
Vision of a Fair Woman, from the Ancient Erse of Elizabeth A. Sharp's 'Lyra Celtica'
Constancy by Sir John Suckling
My Lady by Dante Alighieri
The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide: Sonnet XCIX by William Shakespeare
Love: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
A Budget of Paradoxes by John Martley
Lovely Mary Donnelly by William Allingham
The Girl of Cadiz by Lord Byron
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
The Shepherd and the King by Robert Greene
On a Girdle by Edmund Waller
Her Likeness by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
A Song by Thomas Carew
Give Place, Ye Lovers by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Love Dissembled: From 'As You Like It,' Act III. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare
Love: From the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott
Triumph of Charis by Ben Jonson
Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller
The Low-Backed Car by Samuel Lover
Song by Walther von der Vogelweide
To a Lady (On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully) by John James Piatt
My Sweetheart's Face by John Allan Wyeth
The White Rose (Sent by a Yorkish Lover to His Lancastrian Mistress) by Anonymous
O, Fairest of the Rural Maids! by William Cullen Bryant
On Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster Sherman
A Vision of Beauty by Ben Jonson
Rosalynd by Thomas Lodge
She Is Not Fair to Outward View by Hartley Coleridge
On the Road to Chorrera by Arlo Bates
The Milking-Maid by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Love Is a Sickness by Samuel Daniel
Love: From 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe
An Experience and a Moral by Frederick Swartwout Cozzens
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington
Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing by William Browne
I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song by Mark Akenside
Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes by Robert Herrick
A Violet in Her Hair by Charles Swain
To the Princess Lucretia by Torquato Tasso
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes: From 'The Forest' by Ben Jonson
Spring by Meleager
Black and Blue Eyes by Thomas Moore
Blue Eyes by John Keats
A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney
At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray
A Gage d'Amour by Austin Dobson
Belinda: From 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope
O, Saw Ye the Lass? by Richard Ryan
Her Guitar by Frank Dempster Sherman
Love and Woman: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act IV. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
The Future of Poetry by John Vance Cheney
When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time: Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare
Daybreak by Sir William Davenant