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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