The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time

Author: Leslie Pockell
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446511935
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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.

One Hundred and One Classic Love Poems

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780809299850
Category : Love poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Presents a collection of over one hundred of the world's best-known love poems, written by a variety of authors including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker, Emily Dickinson, and others.

The 100 Best Poems of All Time

Author: Leslie Pockell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739417126
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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100 Best Poems of All Time

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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739415818
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Great Love Poems

Author: Shane Weller
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486272842
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
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. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Sonnet 73" and "Song."

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"--

Greatest Love Poems

Author: Madeleine Edgar
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1848584784
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Presented in an accessible and easy-reference format, Greatest Love Poems includes over 220 poems by a wide range of famous and lesser-known authors from different periods of history. These are divided into five themed sections, including: • Romance • Poems for Marriage • Unrequited Love • Long Distance Love • Lost Love Featuring short biographies of every author, this beautiful edition allows you to explore every aspect of love and its interpretations.

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.

100 Best Love Poems of All Times

Author: OM BOOKS EDITORIAL TEAM.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789353764142
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Poetry, an art form that is distinguished by rhythm, rhyme, intensity of feeling, compression, and the use of refrains, is as old as human civilization. It is widely believed that poetry originated in song. Pre-literate societies used poetry to tell stories, record oral history and other forms of knowledge such as genealogy and law. Most of the world's scriptures are composed of poems rather than prose. Poets have been writing about love from time immemorial. Their compositions, seeped in the many shades of love, encompass a gamut of intense bonds including friendship, romantic love, parental love, spiritual love, love of King and country, and love of nature. 100 Best love poems of all time features some of the finest love poems written by masters of the form across the ages. Sappho, Horace, Ovid, Dante Alighieri's, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Aphra Behn, John Keats, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Heinrich heine, Victor Hugo, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Kahlil Gibran, Rabindranath Tagore, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sara Teasdale, Sarojini Naidu, W.B. Yeats, and a host of other wordsmiths br>tug at the reader heartstrings in this collection.

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.