| Description |
198 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The bargain / Sir Philip Sidney -- My true love hath my heart / Catullus -- A betrothal / E.J. Scovell -- United / Paulus Silentiarius -- Les estreines / Matthew Prior -- The passionate shepherd to his love -- The happy swain / Ambrose Philips -- Men marry what they need. I marry you / John Ciardi -- Inclusions / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Thou hast sworn by thy god, my Jeanie / Allan Cunningham -- To Celia / Ben Johnson -- To Cloris / Sir Charles Sedley -- To F.C. / Mortimer Collins -- Sweet mouth, that send'st a musky-rosed breath / Joshua Sylvester -- Love me not for comely grace / Anonymous -- If thou must love me, let it be for nought / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Seeing her dancing / Robert Heath -- At a window / Carl Sandburg -- Live in my heart and pay no rent / Samuel lover -- First love / John Clare -- A match / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott -- from Love in the valley / George Meredith -- Cooking and courting / Anonymous -- The exchange / Samual Taylor Coleridge -- The wedding gift / Minna Irving -- A maiden's ideal of a husband from "The Contrivances" / Henry Carey -- Song from "The witch" / Thomas Middleton -- Ballad written for a bridegroom / Francis Villon -- from "Prothalamion" / Edmund Spenser -- Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser -- Adam describing Eve from "Paradise lost, book VIII" / John Milton -- A bridal song / William Shakespeare -- 'Twas when the spousal time of May / Coventry Patmore -- Bridal song / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Bridal song / George Chapman -- Minstrel's marriage-song from "AEella: a tragical interlude" / Thomas Chatterton -- Esthonian bridal song / Johann Gottfried Von Herder -- On the marriage of T.K. and C.C.: the morning stormy / Thomas Carew -- The poet's bridal-day song / Allan Cunningham -- Like a laverock in the lift / Jean Ingelow -- Marriage morning / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- from "The Bells / Edgar Allan Poe -- Between us a new morning / Paul Eluard -- Not from pride, but from humility / James Lawson -- from A slave marriage ceremony -- Navajo chant -- Marriage / Samuel Rogers -- The newly-wedded / Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- Nuptial sleep / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Nuptial song: "Sigh, heart, break not" / John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley -- Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Love / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- What thing is love? / George Peele -- I will tell thee what it is to love / Charles Swain -- So well I love thee / Michael Drayton -- He will praise his lady / Guido Guinizelli -- My lady / Dante Alighieri -- She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- When our two souls stand up erect and strong / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- So are you to my thoughts as food to life / William Shakespeare -- Your hands lie open in the long free grass / Dante Gabriel Rossettii -- One day I wrote her name upon the strand / Edmund Spenser -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / William Shakespeare -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare -- If I leave all for thee / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Love in a life / Robert Browning -- Surrender / Emily Dickinson -- Kissing her hair / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- The ecstasy / John Dunne -- from Paterson / William Carlos Williams -- She tells her love while half aspleep / Robert Graves -- Daybreak / Stephen Spender -- Gloire de Dijon / D.H. Lawrence -- The good-morrow / John Donne -- The ragged wood / William Butler Yeats -- The sun raising / John Donne -- Only we / Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton -- Most like an arch this marriage / John Ciardi -- On marriage / Hipponax -- Love song: I and thou / Alan Dugan -- Man and wife / Robert Lowell -- To his wife / Decimus Magnus Ausonius -- A dedication / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- My wife / Robert Louis Stevenson -- To my more than meritorious wife / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- A dedication to my wife / T.S. Eliot -- Poem in prose / Archibald MacLeish -- Part of plenty / Bernard Spencer -- The thinker / William Carlos Williams -- While the leaves of the bamboo rustle / Anonymous frontier guard -- The shortest and sweetest of songs / George MacDonald -- A letter to Daphnis / Anne, Countess of Winchilsea -- To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet -- Any wife or husband / Carol Haynes -- I'm wife... / Emily Dickinson -- The shepherd's wife's song / Robert Greene -- from The song of Solomon -- West-running brook / Robert Frost -- Will you love me when I'm old? / Anonymous -- Oh, no--not ev'n when first we lov'd / Thomas Moore -- The marriage ring / George Crabbe -- Constancy rewarded / Coventry Patmore -- The anniversary / John Donne -- To his wife on the fourteenth anniversary of her wedding-day, with a ring / Samual Bishop -- Story of the gate / T.H. Robertson -- A garden song / George R. Sims -- Two lovers / George Eliot -- In twos / William Channing Gannett -- Inseparable / Philip Bourke Marston -- Till death us part / Arthur Penrhyn Stanley -- Epitaph on the monument of Sir William Dyer at Colmworth, 1641 / Lady Catherine Dyer -- An epitaph upon a husband and wife who died and were buried togehter / Richard Crashaw. |
| Subject |
Love poetry.
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| Added Author |
Yager, Cary O.
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| ISBN |
0809234394 |
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9780809234394 |
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