Great Love Poems

by Shane Weller (Editor)

Overview

Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
— W. B. Yeats
Down through the millennia the emotion of love has inspired countless poets to great heights of lyrical expression. In this volume readers can sample more than 150 great love poems by English and American poets. Spanning over four centuries of literary creation in the service of amour, the works include a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets, John Donne's "The Ecstasy," William Blake's "The Garden of Love," Robert Burns's "The Banks o'Doon" and "John Anderson My Jo," Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee," Robert Browning's "Meeting at Night," as well as works by W. B. Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling, Matthew Arnold, A. E. Housman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Robert Frost.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486272849
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	10/08/1992
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,096,171
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	14 Years

Table of Contents

SIR THOMAS WYATT
The Lover Showeth How He is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed
The Appeal
EDMUND SPENSER
One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand'
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
"'As Ye came from the Holy Land'"
Her Reply
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
"Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show'"
His Lady's Cruelty
The Bargain
JOHN LYLY
Cards and Kisses
GEORGE PEELE
A Summer Song
HENRY CONSTABLE
Diaphenia
SAMUEL DANIEl
"If This Be Love, to Draw a Weary Breath'"
MICHAEL DRAYTON
The Parting
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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 fo True Minds'
My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun'
THOMAS CAMPION
Cherry-Ripe
"Thou Art Not Fair, for all Thy Red and White'"
Vobiscum est Iope
SIR HENRY WOTTON
Elizabeth of Bohemia
JOHN DONNE
The Sun Rising
The Canonization
Song
The Apparition
The Ectasy
The Funeral
Elegy: On His Mistress Going to Bed
BEN JONSON
To Celia
The Hour Glass
THOMAS HEYWOOD
Matin Song
GEORGE WITHER
"I Loved a Lass, a Fair One'"
ROBERT HERRICK
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
Upon Julia's Clothes
Chop-Cherry
FRANCIS QUARLES
A Divine Rapture
HENRY KING
Sonnet
Exequy on His Wife
THOMAS CAREW
Song
To His Inconstant Mistress
EDMUND WALLER
On a Girdle
Song
JOHN MILTON
On His Deceased Wife
SIR JOHN SUCKLING
"Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?'"
The Constant Lover
RICHARD LOVELACE
"To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
"To Althea, from Prison"
The Scrutiny
ANDREW MARVELL
To His Coy Mistress
The Definition of Love
The Mower to the Glo-Worms
JOHN DRYDEN
"Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor!'"
"JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER"
Return
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover
MATTHEW PRIOR
An Ode
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Pious Selinda Goes to Prayers'
False through She Be to Me and Love'
JOHN GAY
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan
HENRY CAREY
Sally in Our Alley
WILLIAM COWPER
To Mary
WILLIAM BLAKE
How Sweet I Roam'd from Field to Field'
Love's Secret
The Clod and the Pebble
The Garden of Love
ROBERT BURNS
Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw'
John Anderson My Jo
The Banks o' Doon
"A Red, Red Rose"
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known'
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways'
Surprised by Joy-Impatient as the Wind'
SIR WALTER SCOTT
An Hour with Thee
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Past Ruin'd Ilion Heln Lives'
"Proud Word You 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'"
THOMAS CAMPBELL
Freedom and Love
THOMAS MOORE
Did not
An Argument
At the Mid Hour of Night
"GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON"
When We Two Parted'
"She Walks in Beauty, Like the Night'"
"So, We'll Go No More A-Roving'"
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Love's Philosophy
To ?
JOHN CLARE
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
JOHN KEATS
"Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art?'"
THOMAS HOOD
Ruth
WILLIAM BARNES
The Wife A-Lost
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Give All to Love
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
I Thought Once How Theocritus Had sung'
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways'
EDGAR ALLAN POE
To Helen
To One in Paradise
Annabel Lee
"ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON"
"Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White'"
"Come Not, When I am Dead'"
ROBERT BROWNING
The Last Ride Together
Meeting at Night
Bad Dreams
Love
EMILY BRONTË
Remembrance
If Grief for Grief Can Touch Thee'
WALT WHITMAN
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
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Longing
Absence
COVENTRY PATMORE
The Revelation
A Farewell
The Azalea
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
Sudden Light
Silent Noon
Severed Selves
Without Her
The Orchard-Pit
GEORGE MEREDITH
By This He Knew She Wept with Waking Eyes'
In Our Old Shipwrecked Days There Was an Hour'
EMILY DICKINSON
We Outgrow Love Like Other Things'
My Life Closed Twice before Its Close'
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
A Birthday
Echo
May
The First Day
WILLIAM MORRIS
Love Is Enough
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
Love and Sleep
WILFRID BLUNT
St. Valentine's Day
THOMAS HARDY
A Broken Appointment
In a Cathedral City
A Thunderstorm in Town
ALICE MEYNELL
Renouncement
A. E. HOUSMAN
"Oh, When I Was in Love with You'"
Along the Field as We Came By'
White in the Moon the Long Road Lies'
W. B. YEATS
Down by the Salley Gardens
Brown Penny
A Drinking Song
Never Give All the Heart
When You Are Old
ARTHUR SYMONS
White Heliotrope
ERNEST DOWSON
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
Eros Turannos
HILAIRE BELLOC
Juliet
ROBERT FROST
Meeting and Passing
D.H. LAWRENCE
Gloire de Dijon
EZRA POUND
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
EDWARD THOMAS
Like the Touch of Rain
JOHN CROWE RANSOM
Piazza Piece
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
"I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed'"
HART CRANE
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