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.

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.

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."

Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.

With over 650,000 copies in print, Poems That Touch The Heart is America's most popular collection of inspirational verse.

Find a hundred ways to say “I love you” with a heartwarming collection featuring poets from Shakespeare to Shelley. “If ever two were one, then surely we.” —Anne Bradstreet Shakespeare’s sonnets; the elegant words of Robert Browning; the poignant works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; the stirring poetry of Christina Rossetti—all are collected here in this celebration of romantic passion and deep abiding love. Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Butler Yeats, Lord Byron, Keats, Wordsworth, Shelley, and other treasured poets provide meaningful, memorable ways to speak the language of the heart.

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

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.

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.

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