Great Love Poems

SIR THOMAS WYATT The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed The Appeal EDMUND SPENSER 'One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand' SIR WALTER RALEIGH " 'As Ye Came from the Holy Land' " Her Reply SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 'Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show' His Lady's Cruelty The Bargain JOHN LYLY Cards and Kisses GEORGE PEELE A Summer Song HENRY CONSTABLE Diaphenia SAMUEL DANIEL 'If This Be Love, to Draw a Weary Breath' MICHAEL DRAYTON The Parting CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The Passionate Shepherd to His Love WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?' 'That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold' 'From You Have I Been Absent in the Spring' 'When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time' 'Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds' 'My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun' THOMAS CAMPION Cherry-Ripe 'Thou Art Not Fair, for All Thy Red and White' Vobiscum est Iope SIR HENRY WOTTON Elizabeth of Bohemia JOHN DONNE The Sun Rising The Canonization Song The Apparition The Ecstacy The Funeral Elegy: On His Mistress Going to Bed BEN JONSON To Celia The Hour Glass THOMAS HEYWOOD Matin Song GEORGE WITHER 'I Loved a Lass, a Fair One' ROBERT HERRICK To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Upon Julia's Clothes Chop-Cherry FRANCIS QUARLES A Divine Rapture HENRY KING Sonnet Exequy on His Wife THOMAS CAREW Song To His Inconstant Mistress EDMUND WALLER On a Girdle Song JOHN MILTON On His Deceased Wife SIR JOHN SUCKLING 'Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?' The Constant Lover RICHARD LOVELACE To Lucasta, Going to the Wars To Althea, from Prison The Scrutiny ANDREW MARVELL To His Coy Mistress The Definition of Love The Mower to the Glo-Worms JOHN DRYDEN 'Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor!" JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER Return A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover MATTHEW PRIOR An Ode WILLIAM CONGREVE 'Pious Selinda Goes to Prayers' 'False though She Be to Me and Love' JOHN GAY Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan HENRY CAREY Sally in Our Alley WILLIAM COWPER To Mary WILLIAM BLAKE 'How Sweet I Roam'd from Field to Field' Love's Secret The Clod and the Pebble The Garden of Love ROBERT BURNS 'Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw' John Anderson My Jo The Banks o' Doom A Red, Red Rose WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 'Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known' 'She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways' 'Surprised by Joy—Impatient as the Wind' SIR WALTER SCOTT An Hour with Thee WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 'Past Ruin'd Ilion Helen Lives' 'Proud Word You Never Spoke, but You Will Speak' Rose Aylmer 'You Smiled, You Spoke, and I Believed' 'The Torch of Love Dispels the Gloom' 'If I Am Proud, You Surely Know' THOMAS CAMPBELL Freedom and Love THOMAS MOORE Did Not An Argument At the Mid Hour of Night GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON 'When We Two Parted' 'She Walks in Beauty, Like the Night' 'So, We'll Go No More A-roving' PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Love's Philosophy To— JOHN CLARE First Love To Mary: 'It Is the Evening Hour' To Mary: 'I Sleep with Thee, and Wake with Thee' The Secret I Hid My Love JOHN KEATS 'Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art—' THOMAS HOOD Ruth WILLIAM BARNES The Wife A-Lost RALPH WALDO EMERSON Give All to Love ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 'I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung' 'How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways' EDGAR ALLAN POE To Helen To One in Paradise Annabel Lee ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White' 'Come Not, When I Am Dead' ROBERT BROWNING The Last Ride Together Meeting at Night Bad Dreams Love EMILY BRONTË Remembrance 'If Grief for Grief Can Touch Thee' WALT WHITMAN Once I Pass'd through a Populous City When I Heard at the Close of the Day Sometimes with One I Love As if a Phantom Caress'd Me From Pent-Up Aching Rivers MATTHEW ARNOLD Longing Absence COVENTRY PATMORE The Revelation A Farewell The Azalea DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Sudden Light Silent Noon Severed Selves Without Her The Orchard-Pit GEORGE MEREDITH 'By This He Knew She Wept with Waking Eyes' 'In Our Old Shipwrecked Days There Was an Hour' EMILY DICKINSON 'We Outgrow Love Like Other Things' 'My Life Closed Twice before Its Close' CHRISTINA ROSSETTI A Birthday Echo May The First Day WILLIAM MORRIS Love is Enough ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Love and Sheep WILFRID BLUNT St. Valentine's Day THOMAS HARDY A Broken Appointment In a Cathedral City A Thunderstorm in Town ALICE MEYNELL Renouncement A. E. HOUSMAN 'Oh, When I was in Love with You' 'Along the Field as We Came By' 'White in the Moon the Long Road Lies' W. B. YEATS Down by the Salley Gardens Brown Penny A Drinking Song Never Give All the Heart When You Are Old ARTHUR SYMONS White Heliotrope ERNEST DOWSON Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Eros Turannos HILAIRE BELLOC Juliet ROBERT FROST Meeting and Passing D. H. LAWRENCE Gloire de Dijon EZRA POUND The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter EDWARD THOMAS Like the Touch of Rain JOHN CROWE RANSOM Piazza Piece EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY 'I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed' HART CRANE Carrier Letter Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines