The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time

Author: Leslie Pockell
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446511935
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
Here in this portable treasury are the 100 most moving and memorable love poems of all time, each accompanied by an illuminating introduction. Words of Love...and seduction, heartbreak, adoration, and passion. Revisit the Classics: "He Is More Than a Hero" by Sappho Sonnet 18 ("Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds") by William Shakespeare "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron Enjoy Old Favorites: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear "When I Was One and Twenty" by A. E. Housman Make Surprising Discoveries: "Your Catfish Friend" by Richard Brautigan "To Alice B. Toklas" by Gertrude Stein "Valentine" by Donald Hall "True Love" by Judith Viorst Carry this book wherever you go. It's a perfect companion to read alone or to share with that special person in your life. The 100 Best Love Poems of all Time.

Love Poems

Author: Peter Washington
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0679429069
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of the human soul. Includes poems by John Donne, Christina Rossetti, W. H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Graves, e. e. cummings, Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, Sappho, Bhartrhari, Anna Akhmatova, and W. B. Yeats, among many others.

Falling Hard

Author: Betsy Franco
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763634377
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
A collection of one hundred love poems written by teens.

Lacunae

Author: Daniel Nadler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374182698
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
"A sequence of short, startling poems of imagined translations"--

The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Rock Point Gift & Stationery
ISBN: 1631068415
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
Share in Dickinson’s admiration of language, nature, and life and death, with The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson.

The Best Love Poems Ever

Author: David Rohlfing
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439573900
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
An anthology of love poems features the works of such notable poets as William Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, and Robert Browning.

A Book of Love Poetry

Author: Jon Stallworthy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195042320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422

Book Description
Poets through the ages offer interpretations of love's changing moods and forms.

Love Poems for Anxious People

Author: John Kenney
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593190696
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
In the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people. With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children such hits, John Kenney is back with a brand new collection of poems, this time taking on one of the most common feelings in our day-and-age: anxiety. Kenney covers it all, from awkward social interactions and insomnia to nervous ticks and writing and rewriting that email.

Love Poem Collection

Author: George Chityil
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781469961439
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Whether you are thinking about ways to convey your feelings to your love, or trying to find words to say how that other person touched your heart, then this book is for you.

The 100 Best African American Poems

Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402221118
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Discover the voices of a culture from legendary New York Timesbestselling author Nikki Giovanni HEAR: Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks Countee Cullen Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Hayden Etheridge Knight READ: Rita Dove Sonia Sanchez Richard Wright Tupac Shukar Lucille Clifton Mari Evans Kevin Young Including one audio CD featuring many of the poems read by the poets themselves, 100 Best African-American Poems is at once strikingly original and a perfect fit for the original poetry anthologies from Sourcebooks, including Poetry Speaks, The Spoken Word Revolution, Poetry Speaks to Children, and the Nikki Giovanni-edited Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary poets. This startlingly vibrant collection spans from historic to modern, from structured to free-form, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African-American verse in American culture. The resulting selections prove to be an exciting mix of most-loved chestnuts and daring new writing. Most of all, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.