The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time

By: Leslie Pockell

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Paperback | 1 January 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Words of Love ...and seduction, heartbreak, adoration, and passion. Here in this portable treasury are the 100 most moving and memorable love poems of all time, each accompanied by an illuminating introduction.

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.

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Introduction	p. xiii
La Vita Nuova	p. 1
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?	p. 2
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?	p. 3
Who Ever Loved	p. 4
from Paradise Lost (Book IV)	p. 5
To Helen	p. 6
A Red, Red Ross	p. 7
She Tells Her Love while Half Asleep	p. 8
Last Night You Left Me and Slept	p. 9
I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart	p. 10
I Carry Your Heart with Me	p. 11
The Avenue	p. 12
The Bargain	p. 13
The Mirabeau Bridge	p. 14
To the Bridge of Love	p. 15
She Walks in Beauty	p. 16
The Ragged Wood	p. 17
Night Thoughts	p. 18
The Gardener	p. 19
To the Harbormaster	p. 20
To a Stranger	p. 21
True Love	p. 22
Love 20 Cents the First Quarter Mile	p. 24
Jenny Kiss'd Me	p. 26
Juliet	p. 27
Song to Celia	p. 28
Your Catfish Friend	p. 29
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	p. 30
Love Song to Alex, 1979	p. 32
When Sue Wears Red	p. 33
Those Who Love	p. 34
Reprise	p. 35
One Word Is Too Often Profaned	p. 36
I Do Not Love You	p. 37
Gifts	p. 38
At Last	p. 39
To Alice B. Toklas	p. 40
Valentine	p. 41
Love's Secret	p. 42
I Knew a Woman	p. 43
Love for a Hand	p. 44
It Is the Third Watch	p. 45
The Enchantment	p. 46
The Silken Tent	p. 47
Love Song	p. 48
Wild Nights!	p. 49
She Comes Not When Noon Is on the Roses	p. 50
Between Your Sheets	p. 51
The Jewels	p. 52
Song 5 to Lesbia	p. 54
The Vine	p. 55
from The Song of Songs	p. 56
Confession	p. 58
I Loved You	p. 59
from Merciless Beauty	p. 60
He Is More than a Hero	p. 61
To His Mistress	p. 62
To Little or No Purpose	p. 63
Touch	p. 64
Lady Love	p. 65
Love Poem	p. 66
I Want to Breathe	p. 67
A Statue of Eros	p. 68
Come Quickly	p. 69
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds	p. 70
Habitation	p. 71
September	p. 72
Love Letter	p. 73
Marriage Morning	p. 75
To My Dear and Loving Husband	p. 76
Fulfillment	p. 77
How Do I Love Thee?	p. 78
Meeting at Night	p. 79
Sonnet XXX	p. 80
Camomile Tea	p. 81
Decade	p. 82
Wear Me	p. 83
The Marriage	p. 84
Married Love	p. 85
The River Merchant's Wife	p. 86
To His Coy Mistress	p. 88
Nothing Twice	p. 90
Strawberries	p. 92
True Love	p. 94
When I Was One-and-Twenty	p. 96
Thunderstorm in Town	p. 97
On the Balcony	p. 98
Love Song	p. 99
Moonlit Night	p. 100
Sonnet of Sweet Complaint	p. 101
Since There's No Help	p. 102
Love Arm'd	p. 103
The Lost Love	p. 104
Echo	p. 105
Reminiscence	p. 106
For Jane	p. 107
Funeral Blues	p. 108
Vino Tinto	p. 109
One Art	p. 110
To Fanny Brawne	p. 111
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning	p. 112
Index to Titles and Authors	p. 115
Index to First Lines	p. 121
Acknowledgments	p. 125
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