Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Volume II. Love
Introductory Essay | ||
The Future of Poetry by John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) | ||
I. Admiration | ||
“When in the chronicle of wasted time” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Daybreak by Sir William Davenant (1606–1668) | ||
“Shall I compare thee?” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
The Portrait by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) | ||
“Give place, ye lovers” by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) | ||
To His Mistress by Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639) | ||
“The forward violet thus did I chide” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
“There is a garden in her face”—Anonymous | ||
Olivia by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Portia’s Picture by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Song: “The shape alone let others prize” by Mark Akenside (1721–1770) | ||
Triumph of Charis by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) | ||
Belinda by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) | ||
Hero’s Beauty by Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) | ||
“Drink to me only with thine eyes” by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) | ||
“Eros is missing” by Meleager of Gadara (1st Century B.C.) | ||
A Violet in her Hair by Charles Swain (1801–1874) | ||
To Dianeme by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) | ||
Rosalynd by Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) | ||
Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?) | ||
To a Lady admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph (1605–1635) | ||
“Phillis is my only joy” by Sir Charles Sedley (1639–1701) | ||
Constancy by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) | ||
A Vision of Beauty by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) | ||
To the Princess Lucretia by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) | ||
My Lady by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) | ||
Vision of a Fair Woman by From the Ancient Erse | ||
Spring by Meleager of Gadara (1st Century B.C.) | ||
Song by Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170–c. 1230) | ||
The Girl of Cadiz by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
“I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
A Budget of Paradoxes by John Martley (1844–1882) | ||
Love Dissembled by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Her Likeness by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) | ||
“She walks in beauty” by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
“She is not fair to outward view” by Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) | ||
Verses written in an Album by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington (1605–1654) | ||
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) | ||
On a Girdle by Edmund Waller (1606–1687) | ||
The White Rose—Anonymous | ||
Song: “Ask me no more where Jove bestows” by Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?) | ||
“Go, lovely rose” by Edmund Waller (1606–1687) | ||
“Whenas in silks my Julia goes” by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) | ||
“O, do not wanton with those eyes” by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) | ||
Black and Blue Eyes by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
Blue Eyes by John Keats (1795–1821) | ||
“O, saw ye the lass?” by Richard Ryan (1796–1849) | ||
A Health by Edward Coate Pinkney (1802–1828) | ||
My Sweetheart’s Face by John Allan Wyeth (1845–1922) | ||
Her Guitar by Frank Dempster Sherman (1860–1916) | ||
On Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster Sherman (1860–1916) | ||
“O, fairest of rural maids!” by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
To a Lady by John James Piatt (1835–1917) | ||
On the Road to Chorrera by Arlo Bates (1850–1918) | ||
The Milking-Maid by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) | ||
Lovely Mary Donnelly by William Allingham (1824–1889) | ||
The Irish Spinning-Wheel by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931) | ||
The Low-Backed Car by Samuel Lover (1797–1868) | ||
A Gage D’Amour by Austin Dobson (1840–1921) | ||
An Experience and a Moral by Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (1818–1869) | ||
At the Church-Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) | ||
II. Love’s Nature | ||
Love by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
“Love is a sickness” by Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) | ||
The Shepherd and the King by Robert Greene (1558–1592) | ||
Love by Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) | ||
Love and Woman by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
“Ah, how sweet” by John Dryden (1631–1700) | ||
“Welcome, welcome, do I sing” by William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) | ||
Love by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
Song: “Love still has something” by Sir Charles Sedley (1639–1701) | ||
“If it be true that any beauteous thing” by Michaelangelo (1475–1564) | ||
Sonnet: “Muses, that sing Love’s sensual empirie” by George Chapman (1559?–1634) | ||
Love’s Silence by Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) | ||
When Will Love Come? by Pakenham Beatty (1855–1930) | ||
Why? by Mary Louise Ritter | ||
The Annoyer by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) | ||
Three Loves by Lucy Hamilton Jones Hooper (1835–1893) | ||
“Love scorns degrees” by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) | ||
“Love not me for comely grace”—Anonymous | ||
Light by Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921) | ||
“O mistress mine” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Philomela’s Ode by Robert Greene (1558–1592) | ||
A Fiction—Anonymous | ||
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress by Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649) | ||
A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) | ||
My Choice by William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) | ||
A Maiden’s Ideal of a Husband by Henry Carey (1687?–1743) | ||
Rosalynd’s Complaint by Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) | ||
Cupid Swallowed by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) | ||
“Greene grow the rashes O” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
Perfume by Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928) | ||
Life by Lizzie M. Little (d. 1909) | ||
III. Love’s Beginnings | ||
Kate Temple’s Song by Sir James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk (1827–1905) | ||
The First Kiss by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) | ||
“Tell me, my heart, if this be love” by George, Lord Lyttelton (1709–1773) | ||
Athulf and Ethilda by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) | ||
“Blest as the immortal gods” by Sappho (fl. c. 610–580 B.C.) | ||
“I dreamt I saw great Venus” by Bion of Smyrna (fl. c. 100 B.C.) | ||
Francesca Da Rimini by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) | ||
“Dinna ask me” by John Dunlop (1755–1820) | ||
“O Swallow, Swallow, flying South” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
Song: “It is the miller’s daughter” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
“If doughty deeds my lady please” by Robert Graham of Gartmore (1735–1797) | ||
The Kiss by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) | ||
An Opal by Ednah Proctor Clarke Hayes | ||
Cupid and Campaspe by John Lyly (1555?–1606) | ||
Kisses by William Strode (1602–1645) | ||
Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
Kissing ’s no Sin—Anonymous | ||
Song of the Milkmaid by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
“Comin’ through the rye” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
“O whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
Sonnet upon a Stolen Kiss by George Wither (1588–1667) | ||
Caprice by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) | ||
Sly Thoughts by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) | ||
The Whistle by Robert Story (1795–1860) | ||
“Behave yoursel’ before folk” by Alexander Rodger (1784–1846) | ||
“Smile and never heed me” by Charles Swain (1801–1874) | ||
“The dule ’s i’ this bonnet o’ mine” by Edwin Waugh (1817–1890) | ||
A Spinster’s Stint by Alice Cary (1820–1871) | ||
The Telltale by Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911) | ||
Love in the Valley by George Meredith (1828–1909) | ||
Thoughts on the Commandments by George Augustus Baker (1849–1906) | ||
The Love-Knot by Nora Perry (1831–1896) | ||
The Chess-Board by E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (1831–1891) | ||
Her Letter by Bret Harte (1836–1902) | ||
The Plaidie by Charles Sibley | ||
Kitty of Coleraine by Charles Dawson Shanly (1811–1875) | ||
Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller (1810–1894) | ||
The Little Milliner by Robert Buchanan (1841–1901) | ||
Atalanta’s Race by William Morris (1834–1896) | ||
IV. Wooing and Winning | ||
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love by Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) | ||
The Nymph’s Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618) | ||
Golden Eyes by Rufinus | ||
Phillida and Corydon by Nicholas Breton (1545–1626) | ||
The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington—Anonymous | ||
“Where are you going, my pretty maid?”—Anonymous | ||
“My eyes! how I love you” by John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) | ||
The Brookside by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) | ||
The Little Red Lark by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931) | ||
Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) | ||
Somebody—Anonymous | ||
The Exchange by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) | ||
Love’s Logic—Anonymous | ||
The Night-Piece by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) | ||
Sweet Meeting of Desires by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) | ||
Story of the Gate by Harrison Robertson (1856–1939) | ||
Doris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph Munby (1828–1910) | ||
Among the Heather by William Allingham (1824–1889) | ||
Rory O’More by Samuel Lover (1797–1868) | ||
Cooking and Courting—Anonymous | ||
“Ca’ the yowes” by Isabel Pagan (c. 1740–1821) | ||
The Siller Croun by Susanna Blamire (1747–1794) | ||
“Duncan Gray cam’ here to woo” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover (1797–1868) | ||
Live in my Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel Lover (1797–1868) | ||
Widow Machree by Samuel Lover (1797–1868) | ||
Widow Malone by Charles Lever (1806–1872) | ||
I’m not Myself at all by Samuel Lover (1797–1868) | ||
“I prithee send me back my heart” by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) | ||
“Love me little, love me long”—Anonymous | ||
The Courtin’ by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
Popping Corn—Anonymous | ||
The Friar of Orders Gray by Thomas Percy (1729–1811) | ||
The Hermit by Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774) | ||
The Laird o’ Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) | ||
Othello’s Defence by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
The Earl o’ Quarterdeck by George MacDonald (1824–1905) | ||
Aux Italiens by E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (1831–1891) | ||
V. Cautions and Complaints | ||
“Let not woman e’er complain” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
To Chloe by John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (1738–1819) | ||
A Woman’s Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) | ||
Love’s Blindness by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
“Full many a glorious morning” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
“Alexis, here she stayed” by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) | ||
Rivalry in Love by William Walsh (1663–1708) | ||
“My dear and only love” by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612–1650) | ||
The Faithful Lovers—Anonymous | ||
The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) | ||
Constancy—Anonymous | ||
The Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) | ||
The Common Doom by James Shirley (1596–1666) | ||
The Author’s Resolution, in a Sonnet by George Wither (1588–1667) | ||
Answer to Master Wither’s Song, “Shall I, Wasting in Despair” by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) | ||
Forever Unconfessed by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) | ||
Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion (1567–1620) | ||
Si Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) | ||
Waiting for the Grapes by William Maginn (1794–1842) | ||
“Give me more love or more disdain” by Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?) | ||
Affaire d’Amour by Margaret Deland (1857–1945) | ||
A Renunciation by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550–1604) | ||
“Why so pale and wan?” by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) | ||
A Woman’s Question by Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) | ||
VI. Lovers | ||
“Not at all, or all in all” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
“When do I see thee most?” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) | ||
Beauty by Edward Hovell-Thurlow, Lord Thurlow (1781–1829) | ||
Love in the Winds by Richard Hovey (1864–1900) | ||
Kissing Her Hair by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) | ||
“My sweet sweeting”—Anonymous | ||
Lines to an Indian Air by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
Serenade by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
First Love by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
“I saw two clouds at morning” by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828) | ||
My Beautiful Lady by Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) | ||
My Love by Russell Powell Jacoby (1862–1899) | ||
A Christmas Scene by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845) | ||
Bedouin Love-Song by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) | ||
Zara’s Ear-Rings by John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854) | ||
Hesperia by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) | ||
“Come into the garden, Maud” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
“When your beauty appears” by Thomas Parnell (1679–1718) | ||
What my Lover Said by Homer Greene (1853–1940) | ||
Palabras Cariñosas by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) | ||
Seven times Three by Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) | ||
When the Kye comes Hame by James Hogg (1770–1835) | ||
The Milkmaid’s Song by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) | ||
Sally in our Alley by Henry Carey (1687?–1743) | ||
On the Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) | ||
Ganging to and Ganging frae by Eliza Cook (1818–1889) | ||
The Spinning-Wheel Song by John Francis Waller (1810–1894) | ||
The Welcome by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845) | ||
Fetching Water from the Well—Anonymous | ||
Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
Curfew must Not Ring To-night by Rose Hartwick Thorpe (1850–1939) | ||
The Sleeping Beauty by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats (1795–1821) | ||
“So sweet love seemed” by Robert Bridges (1844–1930) | ||
Echoes by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
Love’s Young Dream by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
VII. Love’s Power | ||
“The might of one fair face” by Michaelangelo (1475–1564) | ||
“My true-love hath my heart” by Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) | ||
“Were I as base as is the lowly plain” by Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618) | ||
“When stars are in the quiet skies” by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) | ||
“Come, rest in this bosom” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
The Gillyflower of Gold by William Morris (1834–1896) | ||
The Landlady’s Daughter by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) | ||
“Believe me, if all those endearing young charms” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
“Forget thee?” by John Moultrie (1799–1874) | ||
Renouncement by Alice Meynell (1847–1922) | ||
Love: “Such a starved bank of moss” by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
Last Night by Christian Winther (1796–1876) | ||
Minstrels’ Marriage Song by Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) | ||
Summer Days by Wathen Marks Wilks Call (1817–1890) | ||
“Fly to the desert, fly with me” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
In a Gondola by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) | ||
Love by Thomas Kibble Hervey (1804–1859) | ||
Last Sonnet by John Keats (1795–1821) | ||
Stanzas by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) | ||
To Fidessa by Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) | ||
Meeting at Night by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
Charlie Machree by William J. Hoppin (1813–1895) | ||
Hope Deferred—Anonymous | ||
The Old Maid by George Barlow (1847–1914?) | ||
The Loveliness of Love by George Darley (1795–1846) | ||
To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) | ||
An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) | ||
Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) | ||
VIII. Wedded Love | ||
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
VI. Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand | ||
XIV. If thou must love me, let it be for naught | ||
XVIII. I never gave a lock of hair away | ||
XXI. Say over again, and yet once over again | ||
XXVIII. My letters! all dead paper,… mute and white! | ||
XXXV. If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange | ||
XXXVIII. First time he kissed me, he but only kissed | ||
XXXIX. Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace | ||
XLIII. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways | ||
Sonnets by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
I. “My Love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die” | ||
II. “Our love is not a fading, earthly flower” | ||
III. “I thought our love at full, but I did err” | ||
My Love by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
Adam Describing Eve by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
Adam to Eve by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
Brutus and Portia by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Lord Walter’s Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
Paulina’s Appeal by Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) | ||
The Wife of Loki by Lady Charlotte Elliot (d. 1899) | ||
“Like a laverock in the lift” by Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) | ||
“Were I but his own wife” by Ellen Mary Downing (1828–1869) | ||
Two Lovers by George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross) (1819–1880) | ||
In Twos by William Channing Gannett (1840–1923) | ||
Hebrew Wedding by Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) | ||
The Wedding-Day by Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) | ||
The Bride by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) | ||
Song: “The bride she is winsome and bonny” by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) | ||
The Newly-Wedded by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) | ||
The Poet’s Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) | ||
“Thou hast sworn by thy God, my Jeanie” by Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) | ||
Possession by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) | ||
My Ain Wife by Alexander Laing (1787–1857) | ||
My Wife ’s a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
The Poet’s Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) | ||
“The day returns, my bosom burns” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
“She was a phantom of delight” by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
Possession by E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (1831–1891) | ||
My Heart is a Lute by Lady Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy Lindsay (1844–1912) | ||
Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825–1900) | ||
A Woman’s Complaint—Anonymous | ||
Love Lightens Labor—Anonymous | ||
Connubial Life by James Thomson (1700–1748) | ||
The Retort by George Pope Morris (1802–1864) | ||
The Eggs and the Horses—Anonymous | ||
Woman’s Will by John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) | ||
The Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox Bennett (1820–1895) | ||
“If thou wert by my side, my love” by Reginald Heber (1783–1826) | ||
“There’s nae luck about the house” by Jean Adam (1704–1765) | ||
Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) | ||
“O, lay thy hand in mine, dear!” by Gerald Massey (1828–1907) | ||
Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860) | ||
Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848–1929) | ||
The Golden Wedding by David Gray (1838–1861) | ||
The Fire of Love by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706) | ||
“Not ours the vows” by Bernard Barton (1784–1849) | ||
Laodamia by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
“Till death us part” by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–1881) | ||
The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) | ||
“John Anderson, my jo” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |