A book of love poetry

Intimations

Declarations

Persuations

Celebrations

Aberrations

Separations

Desolations

Reverberations.

Intimations: the sisters / Roy Campbell

Milkmaid / Laurie Lee

The milkmaid's epithalamium / Thomas Randolph

Brown penny / W.B. Yeats

Myfanwy / Sir John Betjeman

She walked unaware / Patrick MacDonogh

Two rural sisters / Charles Cotton

Wishes to his supposed mistress / Richard Crashaw

Penal law / Austin Clarke

Symptoms of love / Robert Graves.

Declarations: go, ill-sped book, and whisper to her or / John Berryman

First love / John Clare

The first day / Christina Rossetti

Sonnet xliii, from the Portuguese: how do I love thee? let me count the ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A zong: o Jenny, don't sobby: vor I shall be true / William Barnes

Song: o whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad / Robert Burns

Sally in our alley / Henry Carey

Going the rounds: a sort of love poem / Anthony Hecht

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day / William Shakespeare

One day I wrote her name upon the strand / Edmund Spenser

`Not marble nor the gilded monuments' / Archibald MacLeish

A drinking song / W.B. Yeats

To Celia / Ben Jonson

To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe

She walks in beauty / Lord Byron

Elizabeth of Bohemia / Sir Henry Wotton

Cherry-ripe / Thomas Campion

To Cloris / Sir Charles Sedley

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare

from Merciless beauty / Geoffrey Chaucer

At her fair hands how have I grace entreated / Walter Davison

I cry your mercy -pity - love! - aye, love! / John Keats

Iambicum trimetrum / Edmund Spenser

Vobiscum est iope / Thomas Campion

I loved you; even now I may confess / Alexander Pushkin

Love without hope / Robert Graves

To - / Percy Bysshe Shelley

That time of year thou may'st in me behold / William Shakespeare

A dedication to my wife / T.S. Eliot.

Persuations: to the virgins, to make much of time /Robert Herrick

Love's emblems / John Fletcher

Of beauty / Sir Richard Fanshawe

Corinna in Vendome / Pierre De Ronsard

Go, lovely rose / Edmund Waller

Feste's song from Twelfth Night / William Shakespeare

Ruth / Thomas Hood

Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley

To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell

An argument / Thomas Moore

The flea / John Donne

Written in a lady's prayer book /John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe

Her reply / Sir Walter Ralegh

Come, live with me and be my love / Cecil Day Lewis

For X / Louis MacNeice

This living hand, now warm and capable / John Keats

To his lute / Sir Thomas Wyatt

Beggar's serenade / John Heath-Stubbs

Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom

The author apologizes to a lady for his being a little man / Christopher Smart

Lyce / William Walsh

To his mistress going to bed / John Donne.

Celebrations: from the Song of Solomon, ch. 2

Sick love / Robert Graves

Upon a gloomy night / St. John of the Cross

Meeting at night / Robert Browning

The question / F.T. Prince

Sudden light / Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Plucking the rushes / Anon.

A subaltern's love-song / Sir John Betjeman

My ghostly father, I me confess / Charles of Orleans

Alas! madam, for stealing of a kiss / Sir Thomas Wyatt

The kiss / Coventry Patmore

Did not / Thomas Moore

Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short / Petronius Arbiter

Keep your eyes open when you kiss: do: when / John Berryman

from In a gondola / Robert Browning

The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure / Hafiz

Some kisses from The kama sutra / Hugo Williams

Came to me / Rudaki

Drunk as drunk on turpentine / Pablo Neruda

from The princess / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

New Year's Eve / D.H. Lawrence

She / Theodore Roethke

Elegy 5 / Ovid

In the orchard / Algernon Charles Swinburne

Our Sunday morning when dawn-priests were applying / John Berryman

Down, wanton, down! / Robert Graves

I gently touched her hand; she gave / Anon.

may i feel said he / e.e. cummings

On the marriage of T.K. and C.C. the morning stormy / Thomas Carew

Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser

From pent-up, aching rivers / Walt Whitman

The gateway / A.D. Hope

Daybreak / Stephen Spender

The geranium / Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Dialogue: after enjoyment / Abraham Cowley

On the happy Corydon and Phyllis / Sir Charles Sedley

Phyllis Corydon clutched to him / Catullus

Note on propertius 1.5 / Fleur Adcock

After the fiercest pangs of hot desire / Richard Duke

Song: whilst Alexis lay pressed / John Dryden

i like my body when it is with your / e.e. cummings

The ecstasy / John Donne

Under the willow-shades / William Davenant

Hops / Boris Pasternak

The net / W.R. Rodgers

Love and sleep / Algernon Charles Swinburne

Lay your sleeping head, my love / W.H. Auden

Lullaby / W.B. Yeats

In Bloemfontein / Alan Ross

She tells her love while half asleep / Robert Graves

Winter love / Elizabeth Jennings

The sun rising / John Donne

The good morrow / John Donne

Alicante / Jacques Prevert

Fish in the unruffled lakes / W.H. Auden

The unpredicted / John Heath-Stubbs

Good God, what a night that was / Petronius Arbiter

This unimportant morning / Lawrence Durrell

The quiet glades of Eden / Robert Graves

Away above a harborful / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A bride / Harry Fainlight

On the street / C.P. Cavafy

The way / Robert Creeley

Man and wife / Robert Lowell

The author to his wife, of a woman's eloquence / Sir John Harington

Madrigal: my love in her attire doth show her wit / Anon.

Touch / Octavio Paz

The jewels / Charles Baudelaire

Dread / J.M. Synge

September / Ted Hughes

The Mirabeau bridge / Guillaume Apollinaire

Dead still / Andrei Voznesensky

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond / e.e. cummings

Once as methought fortune me kissed / Sir Thomas Wyatt

My true love has my heart, and I have his /Sir Philip Sidney

In love for long / Edwin Muir

An hour with thee / Sir Walter Scott

The anniversary / John Donne

I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke

A song of a young lady to her ancient lover / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

So, we'll go no more a-roving

Last love / Fyodor Tyutchev

John Anderson my Jo / Robert Burns

A last confession / W.B. Yeats.

Aberrations: song: Poius Selinda goes to prayers / William Congreve

Fragment of a song on the beautiful wife of Dr. John Overall, Dean of St. Paul's / Anon.

Of an Heroical answer of a great Roman lady to her husband / Sir John Harington

The faithless wife / Federico Garcia Lorca

Honour / Abraham Cowley

The imperfect enjoyment / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

The ruined maid / Thomas Hardy

Phyllis / Thomas Randolph

Chaste Florimel / Matthew Prior

Two or three: a recipe to make a cuckold / Alexander Pope

To his mistress / Ovid

The temperaments / Ezra Pound

Filling her compact & delicious body / John Berryman

Juliet / Hilaire Belloc

Womanisers / John Press

I, being born a woman and distressed / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Robene and Makyne / Robert Henryson

A lover's resolution / George Wither

Oh, when I was in love with you / A.E. Housman

In former days we'd both agree / Bhartrhari

The thieves / Robert Graves

The welcome / Abraham Cowley

Out upon it, I have loved / Sir John Suckling

Love and life / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

The scrutiny / Richard Lovelace

Lycoris darling, once I burned for you / Martial

The indifferent / John Donne

Intimates / D.H. Lawrence

She who is always in my thoughts prefers / Bhartrhari

You smiled, you spoke, and I believed / Walter Savage Landor

Elizabeth in Italy / Richard Weber

A song: absent from thee, I languish still / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

A slice of wedding cake / Robert Graves.

Separations: walking in a meadow green / Anon.

Carnal knowledge / Thom Gunn

She lay all naked in her bed / Anon.

Anbade / Anon.

Song: sweetest love, I do not go / John Donne

A red red rose / Robert Burns

Carrier letter / Hart Crane

It may not always be so; and i say / e.e. cummings

Postscript: for Gweno / Alun Lewis

Dear, though the night is gone / W.H. Auden

The last ride together / Robert Browning

The lost mistress / Robert Browning

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part / Michael Drayton

A valediction / Ernest Dowson

A farewell / Coventry Patmore

Goodbye / Alun Lewis

On his mistress / John Donne

Sweet William's farewell to black-eyed Susan / John Gay

Song: ae fond kiss, and then we sever / Robert Burns

My life closed twice before its close / Emily Dickinson

Like the touch of rain / Edward Thomas

The terrible door / Harold Monro

In the vaulted way / Thomas Hardy

I wrung my hands under my dark veil / Anna Akhmatova

Party piece / Brian Patten

A pity, we were such a good invention / Yehuda Amichai

When we two parted / Lord Byron

Renouncement / Alice Meynell

I turn you out of doors / Alain Chartier

Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the town, after the coronation \ Alexander Pope

What news / Walter Savage Landor

The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Li Po [Rihaku]

The wife's complaint / Anon.

Exile / Ernest Dowson

A thousand years, you said / Lady Heguri

Remember / Christina Rossetti

Song: when I am dead, my dearest / Christina Rossetti

Inseparable / Philip Bourke Marston

if i should sleep with a lady called death / e.e. cummings

Huesca / John Cornford

The surrender / Henry King

Madrigal: your love is dead, lady, your love is dead / R.S. Thomas

Dear gentle soul, who sent so soon away / Luis De Camoens

Epitaph on the monument of Sir William Dyer at Colmworth, 1641 / Lady Catherine Dyer

Exequy on his wife / King Henry

Methought I saw my late espoused saint / John Milton

Upon the death of Sir Albert Morton's wife / Sir Henry Wotton.

Desolations: mother, I cannot mind my wheel / Sappho

With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies! / Sir Philip Sidney

A doubt of martyrdom / Sir John Suckling

To Marguerite, continued / Matthew Arnold

The definition of love / Andrew Marvell

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind / Petrarch

I abide and abide and better abide / Sir Thomas Wyatt

Kind are her answers / Thomas Campion

Lesbia loads me night & day with her curses / Catullus

Busy with love, the bumble bee / Meleager

My pretty rose tree / William Blake

Love and jealousy / William Walsh

Song: why so pale and wan, fond lover? / Sir John Suckling

Apologue / Tony Connor

In Bertram's Garden / Donald Justice

Christina / Louis MacNeice

Song: when lovely woman stoops to folly / Oliver Goldsmith

Farewell, ungrateful traitor /John Dryden

Oh! the time that is past /Anon.

Damned women / Charles Baudelaire

When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman

Never give all the heart / W.B. Yeats

Mirage / Christina Rossetti

The banks o'Doon / Robert Burns

The sick rose / William Blake

A farewell to false love / Sir Walter Ralegh

Quick and bitter / Yehuda Amichai

from The house of life: severed selves / Dante Gabriel Rossetti

No use / W.D. Snodgross

O wha's the bride? / Hugh MacDiarmid

The farmer's bride / Charlotte Mew

Les Sylphides / Louis MacNeice

A considered reply to a child / Jonathan Price

Talking in bed /Philip Larkin

And you, Helen / Edward Thomas

from Modern love / George Meredith

A mammon-marriage / George Macdonald

Call it a good marriage / Robert Graves

The newcomer's wife / Thomas Hardy

Bonny Barbara Allan / Anon.

`My true love hath my heart and I have his' / Mary Coleridge

Bereft / Thomas Hardy

The night has a thousand eyes / Francis William Bourdillon.

Reverberations: when you are old / W.B. Yeats

Song: it was upon a lammas night / Robert Burns

Curfew / Paul Eluard

Whence had they come? / W.B. Yeats

Never such love / Robert Graves

Love's night & a lamp

Seduced girl / Hedylos

What she said / Maturai Eruttalan Centamputan

A rondel of love / Alexander Scott

Love / George Granville, Baron Lansdowne

False though she be to me and love / William Congreve

Walsingham / Sir Walter Ralegh

An old song ended / Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The old lady's lament for her youth / Francois Villon

Crazy Jane talks with the bishop / W.B. Yeats

The young bloods come round less often now / Horace

When I was fair and young and favour graced me / Queen Elizabeth

As birds are fitted to the boughs / Louis Simpson

from Lessons of the war: judging distance / Henry Reed

Under the waterfall / Thomas Hardy

Strawberries / Edwin Morgan

A thunderstorm in town / Thomas Hardy

Farewell to Juliet / Wilfrid Blunt

I Remember / Stevie Smith

White heliotrope / Arthur Symons

Chosen / W.B. Yeats

We did it / Yehuda Amichai

The custom of the world / Louis Simpson

The trysting place / William Soutar

At the dark hour / Paul Dehn

A silent love / Sir Edward Dyer

Song of the master and boatswain / W.H. Auden

The ballad-singer / Thomas Hardy

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Girls in their season / Derek Mahon

The disabled debauchee / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Remembrance / Sir Thomas Wyatt

The Wreath / Robert Graves

Remember thee! remember thee! / Lord Byron

A tune / Arthur Symons

Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae / Ernest Dowson

The rainy Pleiads wester / A.E. Housman

Western wind, when will thou blow / Anon.

After long silence / W.B. Yeats

Time passing, beloved / Donald Davie

A marriage ring / George Crabbe

The funeral / John Donne

The old flame / Robert Lowell

While the leaves of the bamboo rustle / Anon.

Two lips / Thomas Hardy

She dwelt among the untrodden ways / William Wordsworth

The wife a-lost / William Barnes

Remembrance / Emile Bronte

You would have understood me, had you waited / Paul Verlaine

To one in paradise / Edgar Allan Poe

Surprised by joy, impatient as the wind / William Wordsworth

Sonnet: in every dream thy lovely features rise / William Barnes

To Mary: it is the evening hour / John Clare

In the Valley of Cauteretz / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The voice / Thomas Hardy

Oh! that `twere possible / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Rose Aylmer / Walter Savage Landor

Echo / Christina Rossetti

Tonight I can write the saddest lines / Pablo Neruda

To remain / C.P. Cavafy

In my craft of sullen art / Dylan Thomas

In time of `the breaking of nations' / Thomas Hardy.