The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time

by Leslie Pockell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780446511933
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	03/12/2008
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	737,152
File size:	247 KB

About the Author

Leslie Pockell is the editor of The 100 Best Poems of All Time.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xiii
	La Vita Nuova	1
	Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?	2
	Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?	3
	Who Ever Loved	4
	from Paradise Lost (Book IV)	5
	To Helen	6
	A Red, Red Ross	7
	She Tells Her Love while Half Asleep	8
	Last Night You Left Me and Slept	9
	I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart	10
	I Carry Your Heart with Me	11
	The Avenue	12
	The Bargain	13
	The Mirabeau Bridge	14
	To the Bridge of Love	15
	She Walks in Beauty	16
	The Ragged Wood	17
	Night Thoughts	18
	The Gardener	19
	To the Harbormaster	20
	To a Stranger	21
	True Love	22
	Love 20 Cents the First Quarter Mile	24
	Jenny Kiss'd Me	26
	Juliet	27
	Song to Celia	28
	Your Catfish Friend	29
	The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	30
	Love Song to Alex, 1979	32
	When Sue Wears Red	33
	Those Who Love	34
	Reprise	35
	One Word Is Too Often Profaned	36
	I Do Not Love You	37
	Gifts	38
	At Last	39
	To Alice B. Toklas	40
	Valentine	41
	Love's Secret	42
	I Knew a Woman	43
	Love for a Hand	44
	It Is the Third Watch	45
	The Enchantment	46
	The Silken Tent	47
	Love Song	48
	Wild Nights!	49
	She Comes Not When Noon Is on the Roses	50
	Between Your Sheets	51
	The Jewels	52
	Song 5 to Lesbia	54
	The Vine	55
	from The Song of Songs	56
	Confession	58
	I Loved You	59
	from Merciless Beauty	60
	He Is More than a Hero	61
	To His Mistress	62
	To Little or No Purpose	63
	Touch	64
	Lady Love	65
	Love Poem	66
	I Want to Breathe	67
	A Statue of Eros	68
	Come Quickly	69
	Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds	70
	Habitation	71
	September	72
	Love Letter	73
	Marriage Morning	75
	To My Dear and Loving Husband	76
	Fulfillment	77
	How Do I Love Thee?	78
	Meeting at Night	79
	Sonnet XXX	80
	Camomile Tea	81
	Decade	82
	Wear Me	83
	The Marriage	84
	Married Love	85
	The River Merchant's Wife	86
	To His Coy Mistress	88
	Nothing Twice	90
	Strawberries	92
	True Love	94
	When I Was One-and-Twenty	96
	Thunderstorm in Town	97
	On the Balcony	98
	Love Song	99
	Moonlit Night	100
	Sonnet of Sweet Complaint	101
	Since There's No Help	102
	Love Arm'd	103
	The Lost Love	104
	Echo	105
	Reminiscence	106
	For Jane	107
	Funeral Blues	108
	Vino Tinto	109
	One Art	110
	To Fanny Brawne	111
	A Valediction Forbidding Mourning	112
	Index to Titles and Authors	115
	Index to First Lines	121
	Acknowledgments	125

Editorial Reviews

Entering the tradition begun with The 100 Best Poems of All Time and The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time is Leslie Pockell's anthology The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time, offering measured doses of cupidity. Working with Adrienne Avila and Katharine Rapkin, Pockell takes readers from Dante's Vita Nuova to love works by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton and by Rabindranath Tagore, Wislawa Szymborska and Frank O'Hara through to Gregory Orr, Judith Viorst and Sandra Cisneros.

Publishers Weekly