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The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2

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"The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2" by Burton Egbert Stevenson is a collection of poetry likely compiled in the early 20th century. This anthology features a rich variety of poems that center around the theme of love, showcasing the influence of historical and contemporary poets. Through various styles, the collection captures the essence of romantic and passionate experiences, offering readers a glimpse into the multifaceted nature of love. The opening of this volume introduces a selection of poems that explore love in its many forms, from the philosophical musings of Ralph Waldo Emerson to playful verses by poets such as Walter Raleigh and Shakespeare. Each piece reflects on the complexities and nuances of love, often employing vivid imagery and emotional depth. Stevenson presents these works in a way that appeals both to the heart and intellectual curiosity, prompting readers to contemplate the nature of love while engaging with the beauty of poetic expression.

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Eros

The sense of the world is short, -
Long and various the report, -
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not outlearned it;
And, how oft soe'er they've turned it,
'Tis not to be improved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]

"NOW WHAT IS LOVE"

"NOW WHAT IS LOVE"

Now what is Love, I pray thee, tell?
It is that fountain and that well
Where pleasure and repentance dwell;
It is, perhaps, the sauncing bell
That tolls all into heaven or hell;
And this is Love, as I hear tell.

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Contents

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  1. Part II
  2. Eros
  3. Advice to a Lover
  4. Love's Horoscope
  5. Song
  6. Song
  7. Cupid Stung
  8. Cupid Drowned
  9. Song
  10. Stanzas
  11. A Woman's Shortcomings
  12. Amaturus
  13. The Surface and the Depths
  14. A Ballad of Dreamland
  15. Endymion
  16. Fate
  17. When Will Love Come?
  18. The Secret
  19. The Rose of Stars
  20. Love Is Strong
  21. The Garden of Shadow
  22. The Call
  23. The Highway
  24. Song
  25. Song
  26. Wisdom
  27. On Hampstead Heath
  28. Once on a Time
  29. In Praise of Her
  30. Damelus' Song of His Diaphenia
  31. Madrigal
  32. On Chloris Walking in the Snow
  33. Cherry-Ripe
  34. Amarillis
  35. Elizabeth of Bohemia
  36. A Welcome
  37. The Complete Lover
  38. Rubies and Pearls
  39. To Cynthia on Concealment of Her Beauty
  40. Song
  41. A Devout Lover
  42. On a Girdle
  43. Castara
  44. Chloe Divine
  45. My Peggy
  46. The Fair Thief
  47. Amoret
  48. Song
  49. Kate of Aberdeen
  50. Song
  51. Chloe
  52. The Lover's Choice
  53. Rondeau Redouble
  54. Jessie, the Flower O' Dunblane
  55. Margaret and Dora
  56. Dagonet's Canzonet
  57. Stanzas for Music
  58. Song
  59. Song
  60. Eileen Aroon
  61. Annie Laurie
  62. To Helen
  63. Song
  64. The Henchman
  65. Lovely Mary Donnelly
  66. Love in the Valley
  67. Marian
  68. Praise of My Lady
  69. Madonna Mia
  70. To Daphne
  71. The Daughter of Mendoza
  72. The Lover's Song
  73. My April Lady
  74. Song
  75. In February
  76. Ballade of My Lady's Beauty
  77. Ursula
  78. Villanelle of His Lady's Treasures
  79. Song
  80. Song
  81. Any Lover, Any Lass
  82. Songs Ascending
  83. Song
  84. Song
  85. To. . . In Church
  86. After Two Years
  87. Praise
  88. Plaints and Protestations
  89. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
  90. The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd
  91. To His Coy Love
  92. Her Sacred Bower
  93. Of Corinna's Singing
  94. Song
  95. The Message
  96. Song
  97. To a Lady Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her
  98. To Aenone
  99. To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything
  100. The Bracelet: To Julia
  101. To the Western Wind
  102. To My Inconstant Mistress
  103. Persuasions to Enjoy
  104. Mediocrity in Love Rejected
  105. The Message
  106. To Roses in the Bosom of Castara
  107. To Flavia
  108. A Doubt of Martyrdom
  109. To Althea, from Prison
  110. Why I Love Her
  111. To His Coy Mistress
  112. A Deposition from Beauty
  113. To Celia
  114. To Celia
  115. A Song
  116. Love and Life
  117. Constancy
  118. Song
  119. Song
  120. The Enchantment
  121. Song
  122. Against Indifference
  123. A Song to Amoret
  124. The Lass of Richmond Hill
  125. Amynta
  126. Cavalier's Song
  127. Meeting
  128. Rose Aylmer
  129. The Nun
  130. Only of Thee and Me
  131. From the Arabic
  132. The Wandering Knight's Song
  133. The Secret Love
  134. The Flower of Beauty
  135. My Share of the World
  136. Song
  137. Are They Not All Ministering Spirits?
  138. Maiden Eyes
  139. Hallowed Places
  140. Lilian
  141. Ronsard to His Mistress
  142. Love in a Life
  143. Life in a Love
  144. The Welcome
  145. Urania
  146. Three Shadows
  147. A Match
  148. A Ballad of Life
  149. A Leave-Taking
  150. A Lyric
  151. Maureen
  152. A Love Symphony
  153. Love on the Mountain
  154. Kate Temple's Song
  155. My Queen
  156. Nanny
  157. A Trifle
  158. Romance
  159. Rus in Urbe
  160. My Road
  161. A White Rose
  162. The Telephone
  163. Where Love Is
  164. That Day You Came
  165. Amantium Irae
  166. In a Rose Garden
  167. To-Day
  168. To Arcady
  169. Wild Wishes
  170. Then
  171. The Missive
  172. Plymouth Harbor
  173. The Serf's Secret
  174. The Cyclamen
  175. The West-Country Lover
  176. Unity
  177. The Queen
  178. A Lover's Envy
  179. Star Song
  180. At Night
  181. Song
  182. The Last Word
  183. My Laddie
  184. The Shaded Pool
  185. Good-Night
  186. The Mystic
  187. My Lady's Lips
  188. A Stolen Kiss
  189. Song
  190. To Electra
  191. A Riddle
  192. To a Kiss
  193. Song
  194. The First Kiss of Love
  195. Love's Philosophy
  196. Summum Bonum
  197. The First Kiss
  198. To My Love
  199. To Lesbia
  200. Make Believe
  201. Kissing's No Sin
  202. To Anne
  203. Song
  204. Phillis and Corydon
  205. At Her Window
  206. Matin Song
  207. The Night-Piece: To Julia
  208. Morning
  209. The Rose
  210. Song
  211. Mary Morison
  212. Wake, Lady!
  213. The Sleeping Beauty
  214. Morning Serenade
  215. Serenade
  216. Lines to an Indian Air
  217. Good-Night
  218. Serenade
  219. Serenade
  220. Serenade
  221. At Her Window
  222. Bedouin Song
  223. Nocturne
  224. Serenade
  225. The Little Red Lark
  226. Serenade
  227. A Lover's Lullaby
  228. Phillida and Coridon
  229. To Chloris
  230. Song
  231. Pious Selinda
  232. Fair Hebe
  233. Contentions
  234. The Exchange
  235. Defiance
  236. Of Clementina
  237. Dear Fanny
  238. A Certain Young Lady
  239. Love in a Cottage
  240. The Courtin'
  241. L'eau Dormante
  242. A Primrose Dame
  243. Don't
  244. An Irish Love-Song
  245. Growing Old
  246. Time's Revenge
  247. Omnia Vincit
  248. A Pastoral
  249. A Rose
  250. Marriage and the Care O't
  251. The Women Folk
  252. Rory O'more; or, Good Omens
  253. Ask and Have
  254. Kitty of Coleraine
  255. The Plaidie
  256. Kitty Neil
  257. The Ould Plaid Shawl
  258. Little Mary Cassidy
  259. The Road
  260. Twickenham Ferry
  261. Song
  262. A Ballad Upon a Wedding
  263. To Chloe Jealous
  264. Jack and Joan
  265. Phillis and Corydon
  266. Sally in Our Alley
  267. The Country Wedding
  268. The Lass O' Gowrie
  269. The Constant Swain and Virtuous Maid
  270. The Low-Backed Car
  271. The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan
  272. Muckle-Mouth Meg
  273. Muckle-Mou'd Meg
  274. Glenlogie
  275. Jock of Hazeldean
  276. Because
  277. To Helen
  278. Mabel, in New Hampshire
  279. Toujours Amour
  280. The Doorstep
  281. The White Flag
  282. A Song of the Four Seasons
  283. The Love-Knot
  284. Riding Down
  285. Pamela in Town
  286. Yes?
  287. The Prime of Life
  288. Thoughts on the Commandments
  289. The Irony of Love
  290. A Renunciation
  291. A Song
  292. To His Forsaken Mistress
  293. To an Inconstant
  294. Advice to a Girl
  295. True Beauty
  296. The Indifferent
  297. The Lover's Resolution
  298. His Further Resolution
  299. To Dianeme
  300. Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
  301. Disdain Returned
  302. Valerius on Women
  303. Dispraise of Love, and Lovers' Follies
  304. The Constant Lover
  305. Wishes to His Supposed Mistress
  306. Les Amours
  307. Rivals
  308. The Touch-Stone
  309. Da Capo
  310. Song Against Women
  311. Song of Thyrsis
  312. The Test
  313. The Snake
  314. A Temple to Friendship
  315. The Glove and the Lions
  316. To Woman
  317. Love's Spite
  318. Lady Clara Vere De Vere
  319. Shadows
  320. Sorrows of Werther
  321. The Age of Wisdom
  322. Adam, Lilith, and Eve
  323. The Lost Mistress
  324. Lost Love
  325. Vobiscum Est Iope
  326. Four Winds
  327. Crowned
  328. Hebe
  329. Snowdrop
  330. When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan
  331. The Shadow Dance
  332. Suburb
  333. Love's Sadness
  334. Love's Young Dream
  335. The Grave of Love
  336. Song
  337. The Question
  338. The Wanderer
  339. Egyptian Serenade
  340. The Water Lady
  341. Love Not
  342. Inclusions
  343. A Woman's Last Word
  344. The Last Ride Together
  345. Youth and Art
  346. Two in the Campagna
  347. One Way of Love
  348. For He Had Great Possessions
  349. Windle-Straws
  350. Jessie
  351. The Chess-Board
  352. Aux Italiens
  353. Song
  354. The Lonely Road
  355. Evensong
  356. No and Yes
  357. Love in Dreams
  358. Song
  359. Song
  360. After
  361. After Summer
  362. Rococo
  363. Rondel
  364. The Oblation
  365. Song
  366. Maud Muller
  367. La Grisette
  368. The Dark Man
  369. Eurydice
  370. A Woman's Thought
  371. Adonais
  372. Face to Face
  373. Ashore
  374. Khristna and His Flute
  375. Impenitentia Ultima
  376. Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
  377. Quid Non Speremus, Amantes?
  378. Refuge
  379. Midsummer
  380. Ashes of Roses
  381. Sympathy
  382. The Look
  383. Love and Life
  384. Love's Prisoner
  385. Rosies
  386. At the Comedy
  387. The Last Memory
  388. Ashes of Life
  389. A Farewell
  390. The Parted Lovers
  391. To the Rose: A Song
  392. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
  393. To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas
  394. Song
  395. Black-Eyed Susan
  396. Irish Molly O
  397. Song
  398. Lochaber No More
  399. Willie and Helen
  400. Absence
  401. The Siller Croun
  402. My Bonnie Mary
  403. A Red, Red Rose
  404. I Love My Jean
  405. Last Night
  406. Adieu
  407. Jeanie Morrison
  408. The Sea-Lands
  409. Fair Ines
  410. A Valediction
  411. Farewell
  412. The Palm-Tree and the Pine
  413. The Flower's Name
  414. To Marguerite
  415. Separation
  416. Longing
  417. Divided
  418. My Playmate
  419. A Farewell
  420. Departure
  421. A Song of Parting
  422. At Parting
  423. Kathleen Mavourneen
  424. Robin Adair
  425. Song
  426. Parting
  427. The Parting Hour
  428. A Song of Autumn
  429. The Girl I Left Behind Me
  430. Remember or Forget
  431. Nancy Dawson
  432. My Little Love
  433. For Ever
  434. Auf Wiedersehen
  435. Old Gardens
  436. Ferry Hinksey
  437. Wearyin' Fer You
  438. The Lovers of Marchaid
  439. Song
  440. The Lover Thinks of His Lady in the North
  441. Chanson De Rosemonde
  442. Ad Domnulam Suam
  443. Marian Drury
  444. Love's Rosary
  445. When She Comes Home
  446. Song
  447. The Flight of Love
  448. Porphyria's Lover
  449. Modern Beauty
  450. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  451. Tantalus - Texas
  452. Enchainment
  453. Auld Robin Gray
  454. Lost Light
  455. A Sigh
  456. Hereafter
  457. Endymion
  458. The Ballad of the Angel
  459. I Shall Not Care
  460. Outgrown
  461. A Tragedy
  462. Left Behind
  463. The Forsaken Merman
  464. The Portrait
  465. The Rose and Thorn
  466. To Her - Unspoken
  467. A Light Woman
  468. From the Turkish
  469. Butterflies
  470. Unseen Spirits
  471. Little Wild Baby
  472. A Cradle Song
  473. Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament
  474. A Woman's Love
  475. A Tragedy
  476. Airly Beacon
  477. A Sea Child
  478. From the Harbor Hill
  479. Allan Water
  480. Forsaken
  481. Bonnie Doon
  482. The Two Lovers
  483. Agatha
  484. Affaire D'amour
  485. A Casual Song
  486. The Way of It
  487. Folk-Song
  488. A Very Old Song
  489. The Lass That Died of Love
  490. The Passion-Flower
  491. Norah
  492. Of Joan's Youth
  493. There's Wisdom in Women
  494. Goethe and Frederika
  495. The Song of the King's Minstrel
  496. Annie Shore and Johnnie Doon
  497. Emmy
  498. The Ballad of Camden Town
  499. Helen of Kirconnell
  500. Willy Drowned in Yarrow
  501. Annan Water
  502. The Lament of the Border Widow
  503. The Braes of Yarrow
  504. The Churchyard on the Sands
  505. Highland Mary
  506. To Mary in Heaven
  507. Lucy
  508. Song
  509. Threnody
  510. Strong As Death
  511. To Mary
  512. My Heart and I
  513. Lament of the Irish Emigrant
  514. The King of Denmark's Ride
  515. The Watcher
  516. The Three Sisters
  517. Ballad
  518. Evelyn Hope
  519. Remembrance
  520. Song
  521. Requiescat
  522. Four Years
  523. Barbara
  524. Song
  525. Love and Death
  526. To One in Paradise
  527. Annabel Lee
  528. For Annie
  529. Telling the Bees
  530. A Tryst
  531. Love's Resurrection Day
  532. Heaven
  533. Janette's Hair
  534. The Dying Lover
  535. Give Love to-Day
  536. Until Death
  537. Florence Vane
  538. Requiescat
  539. Romance
  540. Good-Night
  541. Requiescat
  542. The Four Winds
  543. The King's Ballad
  544. Heliotrope
  545. After
  546. Memories
  547. To Diane
  548. Her Dwelling-Place
  549. The Wife from Fairyland
  550. In the Fall O' Year
  551. The Invisible Bride
  552. Rain on a Grave
  553. Patterns
  554. Dust
  555. Ballad
  556. The Little Red Ribbon
  557. The Rosary
  558. Love's Fulfilment
  559. Song
  560. The Good-Morrow
  561. The Beggar Maid
  562. Refuge
  563. At Sunset
  564. Across the Door
  565. May Margaret
  566. Rondel
  567. A Spring Journey
  568. The Brookside
  569. Song
  570. What My Lover Said
  571. May-Music
  572. Song
  573. A Memory
  574. Love Triumphant
  575. Lines
  576. Love Among the Ruins
  577. Meeting at Night
  578. The Turn of the Road
  579. Plighted
  580. A Woman's Question
  581. A Song
  582. The Reason
  583. Nocturne
  584. Surrender
  585. A Pastoral
  586. Song
  587. Content
  588. Che Sara Sara
  589. Spring Passion
  590. Advice to a Lover
  591. Love
  592. The Letters
  593. Prothalamion
  594. Epithalamion
  595. The Kiss
  596. The Newly-Wedded
  597. Holy Matrimony
  598. The Bride
  599. A Marriage Charm
  600. My Owen
  601. Doris: A Pastoral
  602. Love's Calendar
  603. Home
  604. Two Lovers
  605. The Land of Heart's Desire
  606. My Ain Wife
  607. The Irish Wife
  608. My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing
  609. Lettice
  610. My Love
  611. Margaret to Dolcino
  612. Dolcino to Margaret
  613. At Last
  614. The Wife to Her Husband
  615. A Wife's Song
  616. The Sailor's Wife
  617. Jerry An' Me
  618. Winifreda
  619. An Old Man's Idyl
  620. The Poet's Song to His Wife
  621. John Anderson
  622. To Mary
  623. The Golden Wedding
  624. Moggy and Me
  625. The Exequy
  626. Love Sonnets
  627. Sonnets
  628. A Sonnet of the Moon
  629. To Mary Unwin
  630. Sonnets
  631. How My Songs of Her Began
  632. At the Last
  633. To One Who Would Make a Confession
  634. The Pleasures of Love
  635. Renouncement
  636. After the Italian
  637. Love in the Winds
  638. The Busy Heart
  639. The Hill

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