World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2)

Episodes

• Let Not Woman E'er Complain by Robert Burns

  Episode 1 · 1:10
• To Chloe: An Apology for Going into the Country by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)

  Episode 2 · 2:39
• A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter

  Episode 3 · 2:56
• Love's Blindness: Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare

  Episode 4 · 1:31
• 'Full Many a Glorious Morning': Sonnet XXXIII by William Shakespeare

  Episode 5 · 1:23
• Alexis, Here She Stayed by William Drummond

  Episode 6 · 1:33
• Rivalry in Love by William Walsh

  Episode 7 · 1:02
• My Dear and Only Love by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose

  Episode 8 · 6:12
• The Faithful Lovers by Anonymous

  Episode 9 · 2:37
• The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley

  Episode 10 · 3:09
• Constancy by Anonymous

  Episode 11 · 1:36
• The Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace Thackeray

  Episode 12 · 2:09
• The Common Doom by James Shirley

  Episode 13 · 1:06
• The Author's Resolution, in a Sonnet: From 'Fair Virtue' by George Wither

  Episode 14 · 2:37
• Answer to Master Wither's Song, 'Shall I, Wasting in Despair' by Ben Jonson

  Episode 15 · 2:30
• Forever Unconfessed by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

  Episode 16 · 1:25
• Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion

  Episode 17 · 1:15
• Si Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Episode 18 · 1:18
• Waiting for the Grapes by William Maginn

  Episode 19 · 2:03
• Give Me More Love or More Disdain by Thomas Carew

  Episode 20 · 1:12
• Affaire d'Amour: For E.W.W. by Margaret Deland

  Episode 21 · 1:30
• A Renunciation by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford

  Episode 22 · 1:32
• Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling

  Episode 23 · 1:00
• A Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne Procter

  Episode 24 · 2:33
• Not at All, or All in All: From 'Merlin and Vivien' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 25 · 1:16
• When Do I See Thee Most?: From 'The House of Life' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Episode 26 · 1:17
• Beauty by Lord Edward Thurlow

  Episode 27 · 1:10
• Love in the Winds by Richard Hovey

  Episode 28 · 1:14
• Kissing Her Hair by Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Episode 29 · 1:10
• My Sweet Sweeting: From a MS. Temp. Henry VIII by Anonymous

  Episode 30 · 1:17
• Lines to an Indian Air: Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Episode 31 · 1:25
• Serenade: From 'The Spanish Student' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 32 · 2:14
• First Love: From 'Don Juan,' Canto I by Lord Byron

  Episode 33 · 3:20
• Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 34 · 2:28
• I Saw Two Clouds at Morning by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Episode 35 · 1:19
• My Beautiful Lady by Thomas Woolner

  Episode 36 · 2:35
• My Love (Her Portrait) by Russell Powell Jacoby

  Episode 37 · 52s
• A Christmas Scene (or, Love in the Country) by Thomas Osborne Davis

  Episode 38 · 2:55
• Bedouin Love-Song by Bayard Taylor

  Episode 39 · 1:48
• Zara's Ear-rings by John Gibson Lockhart

  Episode 40 · 3:32
• Hesperia by Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Episode 41 · 8:58
• Come into the Garden, Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 42 · 4:22
• Lochinvar (Lady Heron's Song): From 'Marmion,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 43 · 3:57
• When Your Beauty Appears by Thomas Parnell

  Episode 44 · 1:11
• What My Lover Said by Homer Greene

  Episode 45 · 3:15
• Palabras Cariñosas (Spanish Air) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Episode 46 · 1:32
• Seven Times Three: Love by Jean Ingelow

  Episode 47 · 2:06
• When the Kye Comes Hame by James Hogg

  Episode 48 · 3:30
• The Milkmaid's Song by Sydney Dobell

  Episode 49 · 5:20
• Sally in Our Alley by Henry Carey

  Episode 50 · 2:39
• On the Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Episode 51 · 1:45
• Ganging To and Ganging Frae by Eliza Cook

  Episode 52 · 1:24
• The Spinning-Wheel Song by John Francis Waller

  Episode 53 · 3:13
• The Welcome by Thomas Davis

  Episode 54 · 2:14
• Fetching Water from the Well by Anonymous

  Episode 55 · 3:32
• Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 56 · 4:41
• Curfew Must Not Ring To-night by Rose Hartwick Thorpe

  Episode 57 · 5:57
• The Sleeping Beauty: From 'The Day Dream' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 58 · 6:28
• The Eve of Saint Agnes by John Keats

  Episode 59 · 22:12
• So Sweet Love Seemed by Robert Seymour Bridges

  Episode 60 · 1:35
• Echoes by Thomas Moore

  Episode 61 · 1:03
• Love's Young Dream: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore

  Episode 62 · 1:57
• The Might of One Fair Face by Michelangelo

  Episode 63 · 1:23
• My True-Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sidney

  Episode 64 · 1:05
• Were I as Base as Is the Lowly Plain by Joshua Sylvester

  Episode 65 · 1:25
• When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies by Edward, Lord Lytton

  Episode 66 · 1:30
• Come, Rest in This Bosom: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore

  Episode 67 · 1:19
• The Gillyflower of Gold by William Morris

  Episode 68 · 3:42
• The Landlady's Daughter by Ludwig Uhland

  Episode 69 · 1:53
• Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore

  Episode 70 · 1:22
• Forget Thee? by John Moultrie

  Episode 71 · 2:03
• Renouncement by Alice Meynell

  Episode 72 · 1:22
• Love by Robert Browning

  Episode 73 · 51s
• Last Night by Christian Winther

  Episode 74 · 2:19
• Minstrels' Marriage-Song: From 'Oella: A Tragical Interlude' by Thomas Chatterton

  Episode 75 · 1:51
• Summer Days by Wathen Marks Wilks Call

  Episode 76 · 2:38
• Fly to the Desert, Fly with Me: Song of Nourmahal in 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore

  Episode 77 · 4:18
• In a Gondola by Robert Browning

  Episode 78 · 11:51
• Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story

  Episode 79 · 7:04
• Love by Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Episode 80 · 1:52
• Keats's Last Sonnet by John Keats

  Episode 81 · 1:23
• Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa by Lord Byron

  Episode 82 · 1:46
• The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor

  Episode 83 · 2:35
• To Fidessa by Bartholomew Griffin

  Episode 84 · 1:29
• Meeting at Night by Robert Browning

  Episode 85 · 1:11
• Charlie Machree by William J. Hoppin

  Episode 86 · 3:04
• Hope Deferred by Anonymous

  Episode 87 · 1:29
• The Old Maid by George Barlow

  Episode 88 · 1:22
• The Loveliness of Love by George Darley

  Episode 89 · 2:22
• To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe

  Episode 90 · 1:38
• An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley

  Episode 91 · 3:36
• Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor

  Episode 92 · 53s
• Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds: Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare

  Episode 93 · 1:24
• Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Episode 94 · 8:25
• Sonnets by James Russell Lowell

  Episode 95 · 3:02
• My Love by James Russell Lowell

  Episode 96 · 2:46
• Adam Describing Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VIII by John Milton

  Episode 97 · 5:19
• Adam to Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton

  Episode 98 · 2:20
• Brutus and Portia: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 99 · 4:22
• Lord Walter's Wife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Episode 100 · 5:15
• Paulina's Appeal: From 'Polyeucte' by Pierre Corneille

  Episode 101 · 3:33
• The Wife of Loki by Lady Charlotte Elliot

  Episode 102 · 1:55
• Like a Laverock in the Lift by Jean Ingelow

  Episode 103 · 1:42
• Were I But His Own Wife by Mary Downing

  Episode 104 · 2:10
• Two Lovers by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)

  Episode 105 · 2:16
• In Twos by William Channing Gannett

  Episode 106 · 2:19
• Hebrew Wedding: From 'The Fall of Jerusalem' by Henry Hart Milman

  Episode 107 · 2:09
• The Wedding-Day: From 'Epithalamion' by Edmund Spenser

  Episode 108 · 5:58
• The Bride: From 'A Ballad Upon a Wedding' by Sir John Suckling

  Episode 109 · 2:02
• Song: From an Old Song, 'Woo'd and Married and A'' by Joanna Baillie

  Episode 110 · 3:35
• The Newly-Wedded by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Episode 111 · 1:23
• The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunningham

  Episode 112 · 3:03
• Thou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie by Allan Cunningham

  Episode 113 · 2:07
• Possession by Bayard Taylor

  Episode 114 · 2:33
• My Ain Wife by Alexander Laing

  Episode 115 · 1:17
• My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns

  Episode 116 · 1:09
• The Poet's Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

  Episode 117 · 1:23
• The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert Burns

  Episode 118 · 1:17
• She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth

  Episode 119 · 2:06
• Possession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

  Episode 120 · 1:30
• My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay

  Episode 121 · 1:17
• Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore

  Episode 122 · 1:55
• A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous

  Episode 123 · 2:37
• Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous

  Episode 124 · 2:32
• Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson

  Episode 125 · 2:56
• The Retort by George Pope Morris

  Episode 126 · 1:24
• The Eggs and the Horses: A Matrimonial Epic by Anonymous

  Episode 127 · 7:44
• Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe

  Episode 128 · 41s
• The Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox Bennett

  Episode 129 · 3:37
• If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald Heber

  Episode 130 · 2:05
• There's Nae Luck About the House by Jean Adam

  Episode 131 · 2:28
• Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley

  Episode 132 · 54s
• O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey

  Episode 133 · 2:10
• Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale

  Episode 134 · 1:29
• Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly

  Episode 135 · 2:01
• The Golden Wedding by David Gray

  Episode 136 · 1:51
• The Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset

  Episode 137 · 1:03
• Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton

  Episode 138 · 1:19
• Laodamia by William Wordsworth

  Episode 139 · 11:12
• 'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Episode 140 · 1:33
• The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Episode 141 · 2:34
• John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns

  Episode 142 · 1:35