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| Genre/Form: | Love poetry |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jon Stallworthy |
| ISBN: | 0713906375 9780713906370 |
| OCLC Number: | 2186710 |
| Notes: | Originally published under title: The Penguin book of love poetry. |
| Description: | 393 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Commission / Ezra Pound 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 / 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 -- Ode : 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 mays'st in me behold / William Shakespeare -- A dedication to my wife / T.S. Eliot Persuasions : 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 Raleigh -- 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 : chapter 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 -- On Sunday morning when dawn-priets 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 -- Dialogue : after enjoyment / Abraham Cowley -- On the happy Corydon and Phyllis / Sir Charles Sedley -- Phyllis Corydon clutched to him / Catullus -- Notes on Propertius 1.5 / Fleur Adcock -- After the fiercest pangs of hot desire / Richard Duke -- Song : while Alexis lay pressed / John Dryden -- I like my body when it is with your body / 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 Prévert -- 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, on 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 hath 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 / Lord Byron -- Last love / Fyodor Tyutchev -- John Anderson my Jo / Robert Burns -- A last confession / W.B. Yeats Aberrations : Song : pious 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 García 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 -- Lycóris 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 green meadow / 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 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 -- John Cornford / Huesca -- The surrender / Henry King -- Madrigal : your love is dead, lady, your love is dead / R.S. Thomas -- Dear gentle soul, who went so soon away / Luis de Camoëns -- Epitaph on the monument of Sir William Dyer at Colmworth, 1641 / Lady Catherine Dyer -- Exequy on his wife / Henry King -- Methought I saw my late espousèd 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 a 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 Raleigh -- Quick and bitter / Yehuda Amichai -- From the house of life : sacred selves / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- No use / W.D. Snodgrass -- 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 Éluard -- Whence had they come? / W.B. Yeats -- Never such love / Robert Graves -- Love's night & a lamp / Meleager -- Seduced girl / Hedylos -- What she said / Maturai Eruttālan Cēntampūtan -- A rondel of love / Alexander Scott -- Love / George Granville, Baron Lansdowne -- False though she be to me and love / William Congreve -- Walsingham / Sir Walter Raleigh -- An old song ended / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- The old lady's lament for her youth / Francis 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 gracèd 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 Armichai -- 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 seasons / 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 a 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 / Anonymous frontier guard -- Two lips / Thomas Hardy -- She dwelt among the untrodden ways / William Wordsworth -- The wife a-lost / William Barnes -- Remembrance / Emily Brontë -- 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 or sullen art / Dylan Thomas -- In time of 'the breaking of nations' / Thomas Hardy -- Index of poets and translators -- Index of titles and first lines. |
| Other Titles: | Penguin book of love poetry |
| Responsibility: | Edited with an introd. by Jon Stallworthy. |
Abstract:
A collection of poems representing 2000 years of history arranged by subjects reflecting various aspects of love.
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