Great love poems / edited by Shane Weller. [print]

The lover showeth how he is forsaken of such as he sometime enjoyed - The appeal - "One day I wrote her name upon the strand" - "As ye came from the Holy Land" - Her reply - "Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show" - His lady's cruelty - The bargain - Cards and kisses - A summer song - Diaphenia - "If this be love, to draw a weary breath" - The parting - The passionate shepherd to his love - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" - "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" - "From you have I been absent in the spring" - "When in the chronicle of wasted time" - "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" - "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" - Cherry-ripe - "Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white" - Vobiscum est Iope - Elizabeth of Bohemia - The sun rising - The canonization - Song - The apparition - The ecstasy - The funeral - Elegy: On his mistress going to bed - To Celia - The hour glass - Matin song - "I loved a lass, a fair one" - To the virgins, to make much of time - Upon Julia's clothes - Chop-cherry - A divine rapture - Sonnet - Exequy on his wife - Song - to his inconstant mistress - On a girdle - Song - On his deceased wife - "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?" - The constant lover - To Lucasta, going to the wars - To Althea, from prison - The scrutiny - To his coy mistress - The definition of love - The mower to the glo-worms - "Farewell, ungrateful traitor!" - Return - A song of a young lady to her ancient lover - An ode - "Pious Selinda goes to prayers" - "False though she be to me and love" - Sweet William's farewell to black-eyed Susan - Sally in our alley - To Mary - "How sweet I roam'd from field to field" - Love's secret - The clod and the pebble - The garden of love - "Of a' the airts the wind can blaw" - John Anderson my Jo - The banks o' doon - A red, red rose - "Strange fits of passion have I known" - "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" - "Surprised by joy--impatient as the wind" - An hour with thee - "Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives".

"Proud word y ou never spoke, but you will speak" - Rose Aylmer - "You smiled, you spoke, and I believed" - "The torch of love dispels the gloom" - "If I am proud, you surely know" - Freedom and love - Did not - An argument - At the end of mid hour of night - "When we two parted" - "She walks in beauty, like the night" - "so, we'll go no more a-roving" - Love's philosophy - To___ - First love - To Mary: "It is the evening hour" - To Mary: "I sleep with thee, and wake with thee" - The secret - I hid my love - "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art---" - Ruth - The wife a-lost - "I thought once how Theocritus had sung" - "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" - To Helen - To one in paradise - Anabel Lee - "Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white" - "Come not, when I am dead" - The last ride together - Meeting at night - Bad dreams - Love - Remembrance - "If grief for grief can touch thee" - Once I pass'd through a populous city - When I heard at the close of the day - Sometimes with one I love - As if a phantom caress'd me - From pent-up aching rivers - Longing - Absence - The revelation - A farewell - The azalea - Sudden light - Silent noon - Severed selves - Without her - The orchard-pit - "By this he knew she wept with waking eyes" - "In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour" - "We outgrow love like other things" - "My life closed twice before its close" - A birthday - Echo - May - The first day - Love is enough - Love and sleep - St. Valentine's day - A broken appointment - In a cathedral city - A thunderstorm in town - Renouncement - "Oh, when I was in love with you" - "Along the field as we came by" - "White in the moon the long road lies" - Down by the Salley gardens - Brown penny - A drinking song - Neer give all the heart - When you are old - White heliotrope - Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae - Eros turannos - Juliet - Meeting and passing - Gloire de Dijon - The river-merchant's wife: A letter - Like the touch of rain - Piazza piece - "I, being born a woman and distressed

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Treasury of over 150 familiar poems by English and American poets, including a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets, John Donne's "The Ecstasy," William Blake's "The Garden of Love," as well as works by W. B. Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Keats, Milton, Robert Frost and many more.

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