Men and Women: the Poetry of LoveLouis Untermeyer Stating that preoccupation with love is as timeless as it is universal, an experienced anthologist proves his point in this wide-ranging collection of love poems from the ancient "Song of songs" through Latin, medieval, Elizabethan, and Victorian poets to today's writers. |
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Page 124
... smile , and flashes his eyes In a smile like triumph upon me ; then careless - wise He flings the rabbit soft on the table board And comes toward me : ah ! the uplifted sword Of his hand against my bosom ! and oh , the broad Blade of ...
... smile , and flashes his eyes In a smile like triumph upon me ; then careless - wise He flings the rabbit soft on the table board And comes toward me : ah ! the uplifted sword Of his hand against my bosom ! and oh , the broad Blade of ...
Page 205
... Smiles , tears , of all my life ! —and , if God choose , I shall but love thee better after death . Elizabeth Barrett ... smile - her look - her way Of speaking gently - for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine , and certes ...
... Smiles , tears , of all my life ! —and , if God choose , I shall but love thee better after death . Elizabeth Barrett ... smile - her look - her way Of speaking gently - for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine , and certes ...
Page 223
... smile , the furies fail to stay angry , 130 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day , 181 Shall I , wasting in despair , 40 She is as in a field a silken tent , 208 ... She never told her love , 73 She shuts her eyes and keeps them shut ...
... smile , the furies fail to stay angry , 130 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day , 181 Shall I , wasting in despair , 40 She is as in a field a silken tent , 208 ... She never told her love , 73 She shuts her eyes and keeps them shut ...
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A. E. Housman Adapted by Louis Algernon Charles Swinburne Anna Wickham Anonymous Barbara Allen beauty birds breast breath bright cheek Christina Rossetti Christopher Marlowe Cynara dark dear death delight ding doth dream earth Emily Dickinson eternal eyes face fair Farewell fear flowers girl give Greensleeves grief hair hand hath hear heart heaven Joan Hunter Dunn John Donne Keats kiss Lady light lips live look Louis Untermeyer love poems love thee love's lovers married Matthew Prior mistress moon Muckle-mouth never night o'er pain passion play poet poetry remember Richard Lovelace Robert Browning Robert Burns Robert Herrick rose sigh silence sing sleep smile soft song sonnets soul stars tears tell thine things Thomas Campion Thomas Carew thou art thought true verse weep wild William Shakespeare wind woman wrote young