Chapter II: Part II: Poems of Love

Eros Ralph Waldo Emerson

"NOW WHAT IS LOVE"

"Now What is Love" Walter Raleigh
Wooing Song, "Love is the
Blossom where there blows" Giles Fletcher
Rosalind's Madrigal, "Love
in My bosom" Thomas Lodge
Song, "Love is a sickness
full of woes" Samuel Daniel
Love's Perjuries William Shakespeare
Venus' Runaway Ben Jonson
What is Love John Fletcher
Love's Emblems John Fletcher
The Power of Love John Fletcher
Advice to a Lover Unknown
Love's Horoscope Richard Crashaw
"Ah, how Sweet it is to
Love" John Dryden
Song, "Love still has
something of the sea" Charles Sedley
The Vine James Thomson
Song, "Fain would I change
that Note" Unknown
Cupid Stung Thomas Moore
Cupid Drowned Leigh Hunt
Song, "Oh! say not woman's
love is bought" Isaac Pocock
"In the Days of Old" Thomas Love Peacock
Song, "How delicious is the
winning" Thomas Campbell
Stanzas, "Could love for
ever" George Gordon Byron
"They Speak o' Wiles" William Thom
"Love will Find Out the Way" Unknown
A Woman's Shortcomings Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Love hath a Language" Helen Selina Sheridan
Song, "O, let the solid
ground" Alfred Tennyson
Amaturus William Johnson-Cory
The Surface and the Depths Lewis Morris
A Ballad of Dreamland Algernon Charles Swinburne
Endymion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fate Susan Marr Spalding
"Give all to Love" Ralph Waldo Emerson
"O, Love is not a Summer
Mood" Richard Watson Gilder
"When will Love Come" Pakenham Beatty
"Awake, My Heart" Robert Bridges
The Secret George Edward Woodberry
The Rose of Stars George Edward Woodberry
Song of Eros from "Agathon" George Edward Woodberry
Love is Strong Richard Burton
"Love once was like an April
Dawn" Robert Underwood Johnson
The Garden of Shadow Ernest Dowson
The Call Reginald Wright Kauffman
The Highway Louise Driscoll
Song, "Take it, love" Richard Le Gallienne
"Never Give all the Heart" William Butler Yeats
Song, "I came to the door of
the house of love" Alfred Noyes
"Child, Child" Sara Teasdale
Wisdom Ford Madox Hueffer
Epilogue from "Emblems of
Love" Lascelles Abercrombie
On Hampstead Heath Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Once on a Time Kendall Banning

IN PRAISE OF HER

First Song from
"Astrophel and Stella" Philip Sidney
Silvia William Shakespeare
Cupid and Campaspe John Lyly
Apollo's Song from "Midas" John Lyly
"Fair is my Love for April's
in her Face" Robert Greene
Samela Robert Greene
Damelus' Song of His
Diaphenia Henry Constable
Madrigal, "My Love in her
attire doth show her wit" Unknown
On Chloris Walking in
the Snow William Strode
"There is a Lady Sweet
and Kind" Unknown
Cherry-Ripe Thomas Campion
Amarillis Thomas Campion
Elizabeth of Bohemia Henry Wotton
Her Triumph Ben Jonson
Of Phillis William Drummond
A Welcome William Browne
The Complete Lover William Browne
Rubies and Pearls Robert Herrick
Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick
To Cynthia on Concealment
of her Beauty Francis Kynaston
Song, "Ask me no more where
Jove bestows" Thomas Carew
A Devout Lover Thomas Randolph
On a Girdle Edmund Waller
Castara William Habington
To Amarantha that She would
Dishevel her Hair Richard Lovelace
Chloe Divine Thomas D'Urfey
My Peggy Allan Ramsay
Song, "O ruddier than the
cherry" John Gay
"Tell me, my Heart, if this
be Love" George Lyttleton
The Fair Thief Charles Wyndham
Amoret Mark Akenside
Song, "The shape alone let
others Prize" Mark Akenside
Kate of Aberdeen John Cunningham
Song, "Who has robbed the
ocean cave" John Shaw
Chloe Robert Burns
"O Mally's Meek, Mally's
Sweet" Robert Burns
The Lover's Choice Thomas Bedingfield
Rondeau Redouble John Payne
"My Love She's but a
Lassie yet" James Hogg
Jessie, the Flower
o' Dunblane Robert Tannahill
Margaret and Dora Thomas Campbell
Dagonet's Canzonet Ernest Rhys
Stanzas for Music, "There be
none of Beauty's daughters" George Gordon Byron
"Flowers I would Bring" Aubrey Thomas de Vere
"It is not Beauty I Demand" George Darley
Song, "She is not fair to
outward view" Hartley Coleridge
Song, "A violet in her
lovely hair" Charles Swain
Eileen Aroon Gerald Griffin
Annie Laurie Unknown
To Helen Edgar Allan Poe
"A Voice by the Cedar Tree" Alfred Tennyson
Song, "Nay, but you, who do
not love her" Robert Browning
The Henchman John Green1eaf Whittier
Lovely Mary Donnelly William Allingham
Love in the Valley George Meredith
Marian George Meredith
Praise of My Lady William Morris
Madonna Mia Algernon Charles Swinburne
"Meet we no Angels, Pansie" Thomas Ashe
To Daphne Walter Besant
"Girl of the Red Mouth" Martin MacDermott
The Daughter of Mendoza Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar
"If She be made of White
and Red" Herbert P. Horne
The Lover's Song Edward Rowland Sill
"When First I Saw Her" George Edward Woodberry
My April Lady Henry Van Dyke
The Milkmaid Austin Dobson
Song, "This peach is pink
with such a pink" Norman Gale
In February Henry Simpson
"Love, I Marvel What You
Are" Trumbull Stickney
Ballade of My Lady's Beauty Joyce Kilmer
Ursula Robert Underwood Johnson
Villanelle of His Lady's
Treasures Ernest Dowson
Song, "Love, by that
loosened hair" Bliss Carman
Song, "O, like a queen's her
happy tread" William Watson
Any Lover, Any Lass Richard Middleton
Songs Ascending Witter Bynner
Song, "'Oh! Love,' they
said, 'is King of Kings'" Rupert Brooke
Song, "How do I love you" Irene Rutherford McLeod
To.... In Church Alan Seeger
After Two Years Richard Aldington
Praise Seumas O'Sullivan

PLAINTS AND PROTESTATIONS

"Forget not Yet" Thomas Wyatt
Fawnia Robert Greene
The Passionate Shepherd to
His Love Christopher Marlowe
The Nymph's Reply to the
Passionate Shepherd Walter Raleigh
"Wrong not, Sweet Empress
of My Heart" Walter Raleigh
To His Coy Love Michael Drayton
Her Sacred Bower Thomas Campion
To Lesbia Thomas Campion
"Love me or Not" Thomas Campion
"There is None, O None but
You" Thomas Campion
Of Corinna's Singing Thomas Campion
"Were my Heart as some
Men's are" Thomas Campion
"Kind are her Answers" Thomas Campion
To Celia Ben Jonson
Song, "O, do not wanton
with those eyes" Ben Jonson
Song, "Go and catch a
falling star" John Donne
The Message John Donne
Song, "Ladies, though to
your conquering eyes" George Etherege
To a Lady Asking Him how
Long He would Love Her" George Etherege
To Aenone Robert Herrick
To Anthea, who may Command
him Anything Robert Herrick
The Bracelet: To Julia Robert Herrick
To the Western Wind Robert Herrick
To my Inconstant Mistress Thomas Carew
Persuasions to Enjoy Thomas Carew
Mediocrity in Love Rejected Thomas Carew
The Message Thomas Heywood
"How Can the Heart forget
Her" Francis Davison
To Roses in the Bosom of
Castara William Habington
To Flavia Edmund Waller
"Love not Me for Comely
Grace" Unknown
"When, Dearest, I but Think
of Thee" Suckling or Felltham
A Doubt of Martyrdom John Suckling
To Chloe William Cartwright
I'll Never Love Thee More James Graham
To Althea, from Prison Richard Lovelace
Why I Love Her Alexander Brome
To his Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell
A Deposition from Beauty Thomas Stanley
"Love in thy Youth, Fair
Maid" Unknown
To Celia Charles Cotton
To Celia Charles Sedley
A Song, "My dear mistress
Has a Heart" John Wilmot
Love and Life John Wilmot
Constancy John Wilmot
Song, "Too late, alas, I
must Confess" John Wilmot
Song, "Come, Celia, let's
agree at last" John Sheffield
The Enchantment Thomas Otway
Song, "Only tell her that I
love" John Cutts
"False though She be" William Congreve
To Silvia Anne Finch
"Why, Lovely Charmer" Unknown
Against Indifference Charles Webbe
A Song to Amoret Henry Vaughan
The Lass of Richmond Hill James Upton
Song, "Let my voice ring out
and over the earth" James Thomson
Gifts James Thomson
Amynta Gilbert Elliot
"O Nancy! wilt Thou go
with Me" Thomas Percy
Cavalier's Song Robert Cunninghame-Graham
"My Heart is a Lute" Anne Barnard
Song, "Had I a heart for
falsehood framed" Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Meeting George Crabbe
"O Were my Love you Lilac
Fair" Robert Burns
"Bonnie Wee Thing" Robert Burns
Rose Aylmer Walter Savage Landor
"Take back the Virgin Page" Thomas Moore
"Believe me, if all Those
Endearing Young Charms" Thomas Moore
The Nun Leigh Hunt
Only of Thee and Me Louis Untermeyer
To-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
From the Arabic Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Wandering Knight's Song John Gibson Lockhart
Song, "Love's on the
highroad" Dana Burnett
The Secret Love A. E.
The Flower of Beauty George Darley
My Share of the World Alice Furlong
Song, "A lake and a fairy
boat" Thomas Hood
"Smile and Never Heed Me" Charles Swain
Are They not all Ministering
Spirits Robert Stephen Hawker
Maiden Eyes Gerald Griffin
Hallowed Places Alice Freeman Palmer
The Lady's "Yes" Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song, "It is the miller's
daughter" Alfred Tennyson
Lilian Alfred Tennyson
Bugle Song, from "The
Princess" Alfred Tennyson
Ronsard to His Mistress William Makepeace Thackeray
"When You are Old" William Butler Yeats
Song, "You'll love me yet,
and I can tarry" Robert Browning
Love in a Life Robert Browning
Life in a Love Robert Browning
The Welcome Thomas Osborne Davis
Urania Matthew Arnold
Three Shadows Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Since we Parted Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
A Match Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Ballad of Life Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Leave-Taking Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Lyric Algernon Charles Swinburne
Maureen John Todhunter
A Love Symphony Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Love on the Mountain Thomas Boyd
Kate Temple's Song Mortimer Collins
My Queen Unknown
"Darling, Tell me Yes" John Godfrey Saxe
"Do I Love Thee" John Godfrey Saxe
"O World, be Nobler" Laurence Binyon
"In the Dark, in the Dew" Mary Newmarch Prescott
Nanny Francis Davis
A Trifle Henry Timrod
Romance Robert Louis Stevenson
"Or Ever the Knightly Years
were Gone" William Ernest Henley
Rus in Urbe Clement Scott
My Road Oliver Opdyke
A White Rose John Boyle O'Reilly
"Some Day of Days" Nora Perry
The Telephone Robert Frost
Where Love is Amelia Josephine Burr
That Day You Came Lizette Woodworth Reese
Amantium Irae Ernest Dowson
In a Rose Garden John Bennett
"God Bless You, Dear,
To-day" John Bennett
To-day Benjamin R. C. Low
To Arcady Charles Buxton Going
Wild Wishes Ethel M. Hewitt
"Because of You" Sophia Almon Hensley
Then Rose Terry Cooke
The Missive Edmund Gosse
Plymouth Harbor Mrs. Ernest Radford
The Serf's Secret William Vaughn Moody
"O, Inexpressible as Sweet" George Edward Woodberry
The Cyclamen Arlo Bates
The West-Country Lover Alice Brown
"Be Ye in Love with
April-Tide" Clinton Scollard
Unity Alfred Noyes
The Queen William Winter
A Lover's Envy Henry Van Dyke
Star Song Robert Underwood Johnson
"My Heart Shall be Thy
Garden" Alice Meynell
At Night Alice Meynell
Song, "Song is so old" Hermann Hagedorn
"All Last Night" Lascelles Abercrombie
The Last Word Frederic Lawrence Knowles
"Heart of my Heart" Unknown
My Laddie Amelie Rives
The Shaded Pool Norman Gale
Good-Night S. Weir Mitchell
The Mystic Witter Bynner
"I Am the Wind" Zoe Akins
"I Love my Life, But not Too
Well" Harriet Monroe
"This is my Love for You" Grace Fallow Norton

MY LADY'S LIPS

Lips and Eyes Thomas Middleton
The Kiss Ben Jonson
"Take, O Take Those
Lips Away" John Fletcher
A Stolen Kiss George Wither
Song, "My Love bound me
with a kiss" Unknown
To Electra Robert Herrick
"Come, Chloe, and Give Me
Sweet Kisses" Charles Hanbury Williams
A Riddle William Cowper
To a Kiss John Wolcot
Song, "Often I have heard
it said" Walter Savage Landor
The First Kiss of Love George Gordon Byron
"Jenny Kissed Me" Leigh Hunt
"I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle
Maiden" Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love's Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song, "The moth's kiss,
first" Robert Browning
Summum Bonum Robert Browning
The First Kiss Theodore Watts-Dunton
To My Love John Godfrey Saxe
To Lesbia John Godfrey Saxe
Make Believe Alice Cary
Kissing's No Sin Unknown
To Anne William Maxwell
Song, "There is many a love
in the land, my love" Joaquin Miller
Phyllis and Corydon Arthur Colton

AT HER WINDOW

"Hark, Hark, the Lark" William Shakespeare
"Sleep, Angry Beauty" Thomas Campion
Matin Song Nathaniel Field
The Night-Piece: To Julia Robert Herrick
Morning William D'Avenant
Matin Song Thomas Heywood
The Rose Richard Lovelace
Song, "See, see, she wakes!
Sabina wakes" William Congreve
Mary Morison Robert Burns
Wake, Lady Joanna Baillie
The Sleeping Beauty Samuel Rogers
"The Young May Moon" Thomas Moore
"Row Gently Here" Thomas Moore
Morning Serenade Madison Cawein
Serenade Aubrey Thomas De Vere
Lines to an Indian Air Percy Bysshe Shelley
Good-Night Percy Bysshe Shelley
Serenade George Darley
Serenade Thomas Hood
Serenade Edward Coote Pinkney
Serenade Henry Timrod
Serenade Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Come into the Garden, Maud" Alfred Tennyson
At Her Window Frederick Locker-Lampson
Bedouin Song Bayard Taylor
Night and Love Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
Nocturne Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Palabras Carinosas Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Serenade Oscar Wilde
The Little Red Lark Alfred Perceval Graves
Serenade Richard Middleton

THE COMEDY OF LOVE

A Lover's Lullaby George Gascoigne
Phillida and Corydon Nicholas Breton
"Crabbed Age and Youth" William Shakespeare
"It Was a Lover and His
Lass" William Shakespeare
"I Loved a Lass" George Wither
To Chloris Charles Sedley
Song, "The merchant, to
secure his Treasure" Matthew Prior
Pious Selinda William Congreve
Fair Hebe John West
A Maiden's Ideal of a
Husband Henry Carey
"Phillada Flouts Me" Unknown
"When Molly Smiles" Unknown
Contentions Unknown
"I Asked My Fair, One Happy
Day" Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Exchange Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Comin' Through the Rye" Robert Burns
"Green Grow the Rashes, O" Robert Burns
Defiance Walter Savage Landor
Of Clementina Walter Savage Landor
"The Time I've Lost in
Wooing" Thomas Moore
Dear Fanny Thomas Moore
A Certain Young Lady Washington Irving
"Where Be You Going, You
Devon Maid" John Keats
Love in a Cottage Nathaniel Parker Willis
Song of the Milkmaid from
"Queen Mary" Alfred Tennyson
"Wouldn't You Like to Know" John Godfrey Saxe
"Sing Heigh-ho" Charles Kingsley
The Golden Fish George Arnold
The Courtin' James Russell Lowell
L'Eau Dormante Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A Primrose Dame Gleeson White
If James Jeffrey Roche
Don't James Jeffrey Roche
An Irish Love-Song Robert Underwood Johnson
Growing Old Walter Learned
Time's Revenge Walter Learned
In Explanation Walter Learned
Omnia Vincit Alfred Cochrane
A Pastoral Norman Gale
A Rose Arlo Bates
"Wooed and Married and A'" Alexander Ross
"Owre the Moor Amang the
Heather" Jean Glover
Marriage and the Care O't Robert Lochore
The Women Folk James Hogg
"Love is Like a Dizziness" James Hogg
"Behave Yoursel' before
Folk" Alexander Rodger
Rory O'More; or, Good Omens Samuel Lover
Ask and Have Samuel Lover
Kitty of Coleraine Charles Dawson Shanly
The Plaidie Charles Sibley
Kitty Neil John Francis Waller
"The Dule's i' this Bonnet
o' Mine" Edwin Waugh
The Ould Plaid Shawl Francis A. Fahy
Little Mary Cassidy Francis A. Fahy
The Road Patrick R. Chalmers
Twickenham Ferry Theophile Marzials

THE HUMOR OF LOVE

Song, "I prithee send me
back my Heart" John Suckling
A Ballad Upon a Wedding John Suckling
To Chloe Jealous Matthew Prior
Jack and Joan Thomas Campion
Phillis and Corydon Richard Greene
Sally in Our Alley Henry Carey
The Country Wedding Unknown
"O Merry may the Maid be" John Clerk
The Lass o' Gowrie Carolina Nairne
The Constant Swain and
Virtuous Maid Unknown
When the Kye Comes Hame James Hogg
The Low-Backed Car Samuel Lover
The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan Samuel Ferguson
Muckle-Mouth Meg Robert Browning
Muckle-Mou'd Meg James Ballantine
Glenlogie Unknown
Lochinvar Walter Scott
Jock of Hazeldean Walter Scott
Candor Henry Cuyler Bunner
"Do you Remember" Thomas Haynes Bayly
Because Edward Fitzgerald
Love and Age Thomas Love Peacock
To Helen Winthrop Mackworth Praed
At the Church Gate William Makepeace Thackeray
Mabel, in New Hampshire James Thomas Fields
Toujours Amour Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Doorstep Edmund Clarence Stedman
The White Flag John Hay
A Song of the Four Seasons Austin Dobson
The Love-Knot Nora Perry
Riding Down Nora Perry
"Forgettin'" Moira O'Neill
"Across the Fields to Anne" Richard Burton
Pamela in Town Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz
Yes? Henry Cuyler Bunner
The Prime of Life Walter Learned
Thoughts on the Commandments George Augustus Baker

THE IRONY OF LOVE

"Sigh no More, Ladies" William Shakespeare
A Renunciation Edward Vere
A Song, "Ye happy swains,
whose hearts are free" George Etherege
To His Forsaken Mistress Robert Ayton
To an Inconstant Robert Ayton
Advice to a Girl Thomas Campion
Song, "Follow a shadow, it
still flies you" Ben Jonson
True Beauty Francis Beaumont
The Indifferent Francis Beaumont
The Lover's Resolution George Wither
His Further Resolution Unknown
Song, "Shall I tell you whom
I love" William Browne
To Dianeme Robert Herrick
Ingrateful Beauty Threatened Thomas Carew
Disdain Returned Thomas Carew
"Love Who Will, for I'll
Love None" William Browne
Valerius on Women Thomas Heywood
Dispraise of Love, and
Lovers' Follies Francis Davison
The Constant Lover John Suckling
Song, "Why so pale and wan,
fond Lover" John Suckling
Wishes to His Supposed
Mistress Richard Crashaw
Song, "Love in fantastic
Triumph sate" Aphra Behn
Les Amours Charles Cotton
Rivals William Walsh
I Lately Vowed, but 'Twas
in Haste John Oldmixon
The Touchstone Samuel Bishop
Air, "I ne'er could any
luster see" Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"I Took a Hansom on Today" William Ernest Henley
Da Capo Henry Cuyler Bunner
Song Against Women Willard Huntington Wright
Song of Thyrsis Philip Freneau
The Test Walter Savage Landor
"The Fault is not Mine" Walter Savage Landor
The Snake Thomas Moore
"When I Loved You" Thomas Moore
A Temple to Friendship Thomas Moore
The Glove and the Lions Leigh Hunt
To Woman George Gordon Byron
Love's Spite Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Lady Clara Vere de Vere Alfred Tennyson
Shadows Richard Monckton Milnes
Sorrows of Werther William Makepeace Thackeray
The Age of Wisdom William Makepeace Thackeray
Andrea del Sarto Robert Browning
My Last Duchess Robert Browning
Adam, Lilith, and Eve Robert Browning
The Lost Mistress Robert Browning
Friend and Lover Mary Ainge de Vere
Lost Love Andrew Lang
Vobiscum est Iope Thomas Campion
Four Winds Sara Teasdale
To Marion Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Crowned Amy Lowell
Hebe James Russell Lowell
"Justine, You Love me Not" John Godfrey Saxe
Snowdrop William Wetmore Story
When the Sultan Goes to
Ispahan Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Shadow Dance Louise Chandler Moulton
"Along the Field as we
Came by" Alfred Edward Housman
"When I was One-and-Twenty" Alfred Edward Housman
"Grieve Not, Ladies" Anna Hempstead Branch
Suburb Harold Monro
The Betrothed Rudyard Kipling

LOVE'S SADNESS

"The Night has a Thousand
Eyes" Francis William Bourdillon
"I Saw my Lady Weep" Unknown
Love's Young Dream Thomas Moore
"Not Ours the Vows" Bernard Barton
The Grave of Love Thomas Love Peacock
"We'll go no More a Roving" George Gordon Byron
Song, "Sing the old song,
amid the sounds dispersing" Aubrey Thomas de Vere
The Question Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Wanderer Austin Dobson
Egyptian Serenade George William Curtis
The Water Lady Thomas Hood
"Tripping Down the
Field-path" Charles Swain
Love Not Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
"A Place in Thy Memory" Gerald Griffin
Inclusions Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mariana Alfred Tennyson
Ask Me no More Alfred Tennyson
A Woman's Last Word Robert Browning
The Last Ride Together Robert Browning
Youth and Art Robert Browning
Two in the Campagna Robert Browning
One Way of Love Robert Browning
"Never the Time and the
Place" Robert Browning
Song, "Oh! that we two were
Maying" Charles Kingsley
For He Had Great Possessions Richard Middleton
Windle-straws Edward Dowden
Jessie Thomas Edward Brown
The Chess-board Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Aux Italiens Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Song, "I saw the day's
white rapture" Charles Hanson Towne
The Lonely Road Kenneth Rand
Evensong Ridgely Torrence
The Nymph's Song to Hylas William Morris
No and Yes Thomas Ashe
Love in Dreams John Addington Symonds
"A Little While I fain would
Linger Yet" Paul Hamilton Hayne
Song, "I made another
garden, yea" Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Song, "Has summer come
without the rose" Arthur O'Shaughnessy
After Philip Bourke Marston
After Summer Philip Bourke Marston
Rococo Algernon Charles Swinburne
Rondel Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Oblation Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Song of the Bower Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Song, "We break the glass,
whose sacred wine" Edward Coote Pinkney
Maud Muller John Greenleaf Whittier
La Grisette Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Dark Man Nora Hopper
Eurydice Francis William Bourdillon
A Woman's Thought Richard Watson Gilder
Laus Veneris Louise Chandler Moulton
Adonais Will Wallace Harney
Face to Face Frances Cochrane
Ashore Laurence Hope
Khristna and His Flute Laurence Hope
Impenitentia Ultima Ernest Dowson
Non Sum Quails Eram Bonae
sub Regno Cynarae Ernest Dowson
Quid non Speremus, Amantes? Ernest Dowson
"So Sweet Love Seemed" Robert Bridges
An Old Tune Andrew Lang
Refuge William Winter
Midsummer Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ashes of Roses Elaine Goodale
Sympathy Althea Gyles
The Look Sara Teasdale
"When My Beloved Sleeping
Lies" Irene Rutherford McLeod
Love and Life Julie Mathilde Lippman
Love's Prisoner Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
Rosies Agnes I. Hanrahan
At the Comedy Arthur Stringer
"Sometime It may Be" Arthur Colton
"I heard a Soldier" Herbert Trench
The Last Memory Arthur Symonds
"Down by the Salley Gardens" William Butler Yates
Ashes of Life Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Farewell Alice Brown

THE PARTED LOVERS

Song, "O mistress mine,
where are you roaming" William Shakespeare
"Go, Lovely Rose" Edmund Waller
To the Rose: A Song Robert Herrick
Memory William Browne
To Lucasta, Going to the
Wars Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, Going beyond
the Seas Richard Lovelace
Song to a Fair Young Lady,
Going out of the Town in
the Spring John Dryden
Song, "To all you ladies now
at land" Charles Sackville
Song, "In vain you tell your
parting lover" Matthew Prior
Black-Eyed Susan John Gay
Irish Molly O Unknown
Song, "At setting day and
rising morn" Allan Ramsay
Lochaber no More Allan Ramsey
Willie and Helen Hew Ainslie
Absence Richard Jago
"My Mother Bids me Bind
my Hair" Anne Hunter
"Blow High! Blow Low" Charles Dibdin
The Siller Croun Susanna Blamire
"My Nannie's Awa" Robert Burns
"Ae Fond Kiss" Robert Burns
"The Day Returns" Robert Burns
My Bonnie Mary Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns
I Love My Jean Robert Burns and John Hamilton
The Rover's Adieu, from
"Rokeby" Walter Scott
"Loudoun's Bonnie Woods and
Braes" Robert Tannahill
"Fare Thee Well" George Gordon Byron
"Maid of Athens, Ere We
Part" George Gordon Byron
"When We Two Parted" George Gordon Byron
"Go, Forget Me" Charles Wolfe
Last Night George Darley
Adieu Thomas Carlyle
Jeanie Morrison William Motherwell
The Sea-lands Orrick Johns
Fair Ines Thomas Hood
A Valediction Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Farewell John Addington Symonds
"I Do Not Love Thee" Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
The Palm-tree and the Pine Richard Monckton Milnes
"O Swallow, Swallow Flying
South" Alfred Tennyson
The Flower's Name Robert Browning
To Marguerite Matthew Arnold
Separation Matthew Arnold
Longing Matthew Arnold
Divided Jean Ingelow
My Playmate John Greenleaf Whittier
A Farewell Coventry Patmore
Departure Coventry Patmore
A song of Parting H. C. Compton Mackenzie
Song, "Fair is the night,
and fair the day" William Morris
At Parting Algernon Charles Swinburne
"If She But Knew" Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Kathleen Mavourneen Louisa Macartney Crawford
Robin Adair Caroline Keppel
"If You Were Here" Philip Bourke Marston
"Come to Me, Dearest" Joseph Brenan
Song, "'Tis said that
absence Conquers love" Frederick William Thomas
Parting Gerald Massey
The Parting Hour Olive Custance
A Song of Autumn Rennell Rodd
The Girl I Left Behind Me Unknown
"When We are Parted" Hamilton Aide
Remember or Forget Hamilton Aide
Nancy Dawson Herbert P. Horne
My Little Love Charles B. Hawley
For Ever William Caldwell Roscoe
Auf Wiedersehen James Russell Lowell
"Forever and a Day" Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Old Gardens Arthur Upson
Ferry Hinksey Laurence Binyon
Wearyin' fer You Frank L. Stanton
The Lovers of Marchaid Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
Song, "She's somewhere in
the sunlight strong" Richard Le Gallienne
The Lover Thinks of His Lady
in the North Shaemas O Sheel
Chanson de Rosemonde Richard Hovey
Ad Domnulam Suam Ernest Dawson
Marian Drury Bliss Carman
Love's Rosary Alfred Noyes
When She Comes Home James Whitcomb Riley

THE TRAGEDY OF LOVE

Song, "My silks and fine
array" William Blake
The Flight of Love Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Farewell! If ever Fondest
Prayer" George Gordon Byron
Porphyria's Lover Robert Browning
Modern Beauty Arthur Symons
La Belle Dame Sans Merci John Keats
Tantalus--Texas Joaquin Miller
Enchainment Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Auld Robin Gray Anne Barnard
Lost Light Elizabeth Akers
A Sigh Harriet Prescott Spofford
Hereafter Harriet Prescott Spofford
Endymion Oscar Wilde
"Love is a Terrible Thing" Grace Fallow Norton
The Ballad of the Angel Theodosia Garrison
"Love Came Back at Fall
o' Dew" Lizette Woodworth Reese
I Shall not Care Sara Teasdale
Outgrown Julia C. R. Dorr
A Tragedy Edith Nesbit
Left Behind Elizabeth Akers
The Forsaken Merman Matthew Arnold
The Portrait Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
The Rose and Thorn Paul Hamilton Hayne
To Her--Unspoken Amelia Josephine Burr
A Light Woman Robert Browning
From the Turkish George Gordon Byron
A Summer Wooing Louise Chandler Moulton
Butterflies John Davidson
Unseen Spirits Nathaniel Parker Willis
"Grandmither, Think Not I
Forget" Willa Sibert Cather
Little Wild Baby Margaret Thomson Janvier
A Cradle Song Nicholas Breton
Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament Unknown
A Woman's Love John Hay
A Tragedy Theophile Marzials
"Mother, I Cannot Mind My
Wheel" Walter Savage Landor
Airly Beacon Charles Kingsley
A Sea Child Bliss Carman
From the Harbor Hill Gustav Kobbe
Allan Water Matthew Gregory Lewis
Forsaken Unknown
Bonnie Doon Robert Burns
The Two Lovers Richard Hovey
The Vampire Rudyard Kipling
Agatha Alfred Austin
"A Rose Will Fade" Dora Sigerson Shorter
Affaire d'Amour Margaret Deland
A Casual Song Roden Noel
The Way of It John Vance Cheney
"When Lovely Woman Stoops
to Folly" Oliver Goldsmith
Folk-Song Louis Untermeyer
A Very Old Song William Laird
"She Was Young and Blithe
and Fair" Harold Monro
The Lass that Died of Love Richard Middleton
The Passion-Flower Margaret Fuller
Norah Zoe Akins
Of Joan's Youth Louise Imogen Guiney
There's Wisdom in Women Rupert Brooke
Goethe and Frederika Henry Sidgwick
The Song of the King's
Minstrel Richard Middleton
Annie Shore and Johnnie Doon Patrick Orr
Emmy Arthur Symons
The Ballad of Camden Town James Elroy Flecker

LOVE AND DEATH

Helen of Kirconnell Unknown
Willy Drowned in Yarrow Unknown
Annan Water Unknown
The Lament of the Border
Widow Unknown
Aspatia's Song from "The
Maid's Tragedy" John Fletcher
A Ballad, "'Twas when the
seas were roaring" John Gay
The Braes of Yarrow John Logan
The Churchyard on the Sands Lord de Tabley
The Minstrel's Song
from "Aella" Thomas Chatterton
Highland Mary Robert Burns
To Mary in Heaven Robert Burns
Lucy William Wordsworth
Proud Maisie Walter Scott
Song, "Earl March looked on
His dying child" Thomas Campbell
The Maid's Lament Walter Savage Landor
"She is Far from the Land" Thomas Moore
"At the Mid Hour of Night" Thomas Moore
On a Picture by Poussin John Addington Symonds
Threnody Ruth Guthrie Harding
Strong as Death Henry Cuyler Banner
"I Shall not Cry Return" Ellen M. H. Gates
"Oh! Snatched away in
Beauty's Bloom" George Gordon Byron
To Mary Charles Wolfe
My Heart and I Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rosalind's Scroll Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lament of the Irish Emigrant Helen Selina Sheridan
The King of Denmark's Ride Caroline E. S. Norton
The Watcher James Stephens
The Three Sisters Arthur Davison Ficke
Ballad May Kendall
"O that 'Twere Possible" Alfred Tennyson
"Home They Brought Her
Warrior Dead" Alfred Tennyson
Evelyn Hope Robert Browning
Remembrance Emily Bronte
Song,"The linnet in the
rocky dells" Emily Bronte
Song of the Old Love Jean Ingelow
Requiescat Matthew Arnold
Too Late Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Four Years Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Barbara Alexander Smith
Song, "When I am dead, my
dearest" Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sarrazine's Song to Her
Dead Lover Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Love and Death Rosa Mulholland
To One in Paradise Edgar Allan Poe
Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe
For Annie Edgar Allan Poe
Telling the Bees John Greenleaf Whittier
A Tryst Louise Chandler Moulton
Love's Resurrection Day Louise Chandler Moulton
Heaven Martha Gilbert Dickinson
Janette's Hair Charles Graham Halpine
The Dying Lover Richard Henry Stoddard
"When the Grass Shall
Cover Me" Ina Coolbrith
Give Love Today Ethel Talbot
Until Death Elizabeth Akers
Florence Vane Phillip Pendleton Cooke
"If Spirits Walk" Sophie Jewett
Requiescat Oscar Wilde
Lyric, "You would have
understood me, had you
waited" Ernest Dowson
Romance Andrew Lang
Good-Night Hester A. Benedict
Requiescat Rosamund Marriott Watson
The Four Winds Charles Henry Luders
The King's Ballad Joyce Kilmer
Heliotrope Harry Thurston Peck
"Lydia is Gone this Many
a Year" Lizette Woodworth Reese
After Lizette Woodworth Reese
Memories Arthur Stringer
To Diane Helen Hay Whitney
"Music I Heard" Conrad Aiken
Her Dwelling-place Ada Foster Murray
The Wife from Fairyland Richard Le Gallienne
In the Fall o' Year Thomas S. Jones, Jr
The Invisible Bride Edwin Markham
Rain on a Grave Thomas Hardy
Patterns Amy Lowell
Dust Rupert Brooke
Ballad, "The roses in my
garden" Maurice Baring
"The Little Rose is Dust,
My Dear" Grace Hazard Conkling
Dirge Adelaide Crapsey
The Little Red Ribbon James Whitcomb Riley
The Rosary Robert Cameron Rogers

LOVE'S FULFILLMENT

"My True-love Hath My Heart" Philip Sidney
Song, "O sweet delight" Thomas Campion
The Good-Morrow John Donne
"There's Gowd in the Breast" James Hogg
The Beggar Maid Alfred Tennyson
Refuge A.E.
At Sunset Louis V. Ledoux
"One Morning Oh! so Early" Jean Ingelow
Across the Door Padraic Colum
May Margaret Theophile Marzials
Rondel, "Kissing her hair,
I sat against her feet" Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Spring Journey Alice Freeman Palmer
The Brookside Richard Monckton Milnes
Song, "For me the jasmine
buds unfold" Florence Earle Coates
What My Lover Said Homer Greene
May-Music Rachel Annand Taylor
Song, "Flame at the core of
the World" Arthur Upson
A Memory Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Love Triumphant Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Lines, "Love within the
lover's breast" George Meredith
Love among the Ruins Robert Browning
Earl Mertoun's Song Robert Browning
Meeting at Night Robert Browning
Parting at Morning Robert Browning
The Turn of the Road Alice Rollit Coe
"My Delight and Thy Delight" Robert Bridges
"O, Saw Ye the Lass" Richard Ryan
Love at Sea Algernon Charles Swinburne
Mary Beaton's Song Algernon Charles Swinburne
Plighted Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
A Woman's Question Adelaide Anne Procter
"Dinna Ask Me" John Dunlop
A Song, "Sing me a sweet,
low song of night" Hildegarde Hawthorne
The Reason James Oppenheim
"My Own Cailin Donn" George Sigerson
Nocturne Amelia Josephine Burr
Surrender Amelia Josephine Burr
"By Yon Burn Side" Robert Tannahill
A Pastoral, "Flower of the
medlar" Theophile Marzials
"When Death to Either shall
Come" Robert Bridges
The Reconciliation Alfred Tennyson
Song, "Wait but a little
while" Norman Gale
Content Norman Gale
Che Sara Sara Victor Plarr
"Bid Adieu to Girlish Days" James Joyce
To F.C. Mortimer Collins
Spring Passion Joel Elias Spingarn
Advice to a Lover S. Charles Jellicoe
"Yes" Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nested Habberton Lulham
The Letters Alfred Tennyson
Prothalamion Edmund Spenser
Epithalamion Edmund Spenser
The Kiss Sara Teasdale
Marriage Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
The Newly-wedded Winthrop Mackworth Praed
I Saw Two Clouds at Morning John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Holy Matrimony John Keble
The Bride Laurence Hope
A Marriage Charm Nora Hopper
"Like a Laverock in the
Lift" Jean Ingelow
My Owen Ellen Mary Patrick Downing
Doris: A Pastoral Arthur Joseph Munby
"He'd Nothing but His
Violin" Mary Kyle Dallas
Love's Calendar William Bell Scott
Home Dora Greenwell
Two Lovers George Eliot
The Land of Heart's Desire Emily Huntington Miller
My Ain Wife Alexander Laing
The Irish Wife Thomas D'Arcy McGee
My Wife's a Winsome Wee
Thing Robert Burns
Lettice Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
"If Thou Wert by My Side,
My Love" Reginald Heber
The Shepherd's Wife's Song Robert Greene
"Truth doth Truth Deserve" Philip Sidney
The Married Lover Coventry Patmore
My Love James Russell Lowell
Margaret to Dolcino Charles Kingsley
Dolcino to Margaret Charles Kingsley
At Last Richard Henry Stoddard
The Wife to Her Husband Unknown
A Wife's Song William Cox Bennett
The Sailor's Wife William Julius Mickle
Jerry an' Me Hiram Rich
"Don't be Sorrowful,
Darling" Rembrandt Peale
Winifreda Unknown
An Old Man's Idyl Richard Realf
The Poet's Song to his Wife Bryan Waller Procter
John Anderson Robert Burns
To Mary Samuel Bishop
The Golden Wedding David Gray
Moggy and Me James Hogg
"O, Lay Thy Hand in Mine,
Dear" Gerald Massey
The Exequy Henry King

LOVE SONNETS

Sonnets from "Amoretti" Edmund Spenser
Sonnets from "Astrophel and
Stella" Philip Sidney
Sonnets from "To Delia" Samuel Daniel
Sonnets from "Idea" Michael Drayton
Sonnets from "Diana" Henry Constable
Sonnets William Shakespeare
"Alexis, Here She Stayed" William Drummond
"Were I as Base as is the
Lowly Plain" Joshua Sylvester
A Sonnet of the Moon Charles Best
To Mary Unwin William Cowper
"Why art Thou Silent" William Wordsworth
Sonnets from "The House
of Life" Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sonnets Christina Georgina Rossetti
How My Songs of Her Began Philip Bourke Marston
At the Last Philip Bourke Marston
To One who Would Make a
Confession Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
The Pleasures of Love Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
"Were but my Spirit Loosed
upon the Air" Louise Chandler Moulton
Renouncement Alice Meynell
"My Love for Thee" Richard Watson Gilder
Sonnets after the Italian Richard Watson Gilder
Stanzas from "Modern Love" George Meredith
Love in the Winds Richard Hovey
"Oh, Death Will Find Me" Rupert Brooke
The Busy Heart Rupert Brooke
The Hill Rupert Brooke
Sonnets from "Sonnets to
Miranda" William Watson
Sonnets from "Thysia" Morton Luce
Sonnets from "Sonnets from
the Portuguese" Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One Word More Robert Browning