The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time
Title | The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Pockell |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2008-03-12 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0446511935 |
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.
Great Love Poems
Title | Great Love Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Shane Weller |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1992-10-08 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0486272842 |
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."
The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time
Title | The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Pockell |
Publisher | Warner Books (NY) |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 2014-07-02 |
Genre | LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | 9780446592796 |
A collection of love poems by top writers includes pieces by Sappho, Shakespeare, Keats, Frost, Poe, and Whitman, and features accompanying introductions and biographical information.
The 100 Best Love Poems Of All Time
Title | The 100 Best Love Poems Of All Time PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Pockell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Large type books |
ISBN | 9780739435175 |
Love Poems
Title | Love Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Washington |
Publisher | Everyman's Library |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1993-11-02 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0679429069 |
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.
The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Title | The Best Loved Poems of the American People PDF eBook |
Author | Hazel Felleman |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 0385000197 |
Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.
Falling Hard
Title | Falling Hard PDF eBook |
Author | Betsy Franco |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2008-12-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780763634377 |
A collection of one hundred love poems written by teens.