Poetry Please: Love Poems

Various Poets

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571323968
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

'What will survive of us is love.'

In this new anthology poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, this new gathering of timeless love poems speaks to the heart about this most universal of themes.

Whether in marriage or heartbreak, friendship or infatuation, whether in pursuit of the unattainable ideal or else settling down together for life, whether in love or out of it, you will find poems here to touch the heart. A vital assembly of our most treasured and enduring love poems.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Adrian Henri’s Talking After Christmas Blues
• Against Coupling
• All Over Again
• The Anniversary
• ‘anyone lived in a pretty how town’
• An Arundel Tomb
• As I Walked Out One Evening
• Atlas
• Bar Italia
• A Birthday
• Black Monday Lovesong
• Blindfold Games
• Brand New Lover
• Broadcast
• ‘Come into the Garden, Maud’
• The Confirmation
• Counting the Beats
• Delight in Disorder
• Dining-Room Tea
• Donal Og
• Down by the Salley Gardens
• First Meeting
• For My Lover, Returning to his Wife
• Freight
• The Geäte a-Vallèn To
• The Good-Morrow
• The Great Lover
• Helen of Kirconnell
• Hinterhof
• ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’
• ‘i carry your heart with me(i carry it in)’
• ‘I do not love thee!’
• I Leave This at Your Ear
• If I Could Tell You
• In a Bath Teashop
• In Paris with You
• In the Orchard
• Jenny Kissed Me
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci
• La Figlia Che Piange
• The Lady of Shalott
• Late Fragment
• ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds’
• ‘Let me put it this way’
• Letter to Husband
• The Linen Industry
• Litany
• Litany
• Love
• Love Among the Ruins
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Love Songs in Age
• Love Without Hope
• The Lover Writes a One-Word Poem
• Lovesong
• Lullaby
• Machines
• Man and Wife
• A Marriage
• Meeting at Night
• Meeting Point
• Modern Love
• Muse
• My Last Duchess
• My Luve is like a Red, Red Rose
• ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun’
• My Young Man’s a Cornishman
• Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
• Not Love Perhaps
• ‘Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white’
• ‘Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!’
• One Perfect Rose
• The Otter
• Packing Up
• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
• Perfect Day
• Porphyria’s Lover
• Recuerdo
• Remember This
• Re-reading Katherine Mansfield’s Bliss and Other Stories
• The Ring
• Rondeau Redoublé
• Sex and the Over Forties
• ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’
• She Moved Through the Fair
• She Walks in Beauty, like the Night
• The Silken Tent
• ‘Since there’s no help, come, let us kiss and part’
• Skin Full
• The Skunk
• A Slice of Wedding Cake
• ‘So, we’ll go no more a-roving’
• ‘somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond’
• A Subaltern’s Love-Song
• Sudden Light
• The Sun Rising
• Talking in Bed
• Tamer and Hawk
• ‘They flee from me that sometime did me seek’
• To Althea, from Prison
• To His Coy Mistress
• To His Lost Lover
• To My Wife at Midnight
• The Train
• True Love
• Tryst
• Two Cures for Love
• A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
• Valentine
• Valentine
• Warming Her Pearls
• We Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye
• Wedding
• Wedding-Wind
• Western Wind
• ‘What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why’
• ‘When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes’
• ‘When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought’
• When We Two Parted
• Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Copyright