Love. What is love?
The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive.
Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love's beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt.
Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for another.
Love is perhaps best expressed through poetry. As Plato said 2500 years ago “At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet”. Writing a love poem for ones' partner is seen as the most romantic of gestures. It opens our hearts to another's. Lovers love.
Here, in this volume history's greatest poets convey thoughts, feelings and sentiments of love to you in quick (or bite-size) conversations of verse that can slip into your day and your partner's heart.
01 - Fifteen Minutes of Love - Volume 7 - Bright Star & Other Poems
02 - Bright Star by John Keats
03 - To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington
04 - To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time by Robert Herrick
05 - Because I Liked You by A E Housman
06 - Ardour by Radclyffe Hall
07 - Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
08 - Sonnet To My Wife by Thomas Hood
09 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale
10 - Longing by Matthew Arnold
11 - A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
12 - Love's Emblems by John Fletcher
13 - Slaves of Thy Shining Eyes by Hafiz
