Love songs and sonnets /
A new collection of songs, sonnets and lyric poems that focus on love in the widest sense, encompassing relationships of all kinds. This volume includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorthy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem To My Husband. S...
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New York :
Knopf : Distributed by Random House,
c1997.
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| Series: | Everyman's library pocket poets
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Table of Contents:
- The manifestation / Theodore Roethke
- Whole love / Robert Graves
- Invocation / May Sarton
- Shall I come? / Thomas Campion
- To be in love / Robert Graves
- Home travel / Joseph Hall
- Ah bed / Sir Philip Sidney
- The avowal / Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
- The look / Sara Teasdale
- Down by the Salley gardens / Anon
- Conviction (IV) / Stevie Smith
- Love dislikes nothing / Robert Herrick
- Symphony recital / Dorothy Parker
- Secrecy / Robert Graves
- Four arms, two necks / Anon
- I looked of late and saw thee look askance / George Gascoigne
- Dea ex Machina / John Updike
- Sure proof / Norman MacCaig
- The finding of love / Robert Graves
- To mistress Margaret Hussey / John Skelton
- Upon kinde and true love / Aurelian Townshend
- Van gratuities / E.A. Robinson
- A face that should content me wonderous well / Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Bleecker Street, Summer / Derek Walcott
- Lovers in winter / Robert Graves
- If through the icebound mazes of your grace / Pierre De Ronsard
- The love song / Ivor Gurney
- Loving true, flying blind / Robert Graves
- Coral / Derek Walcott
- Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air / Thomas Campion
- Song / William Browne of Tavistock
- Es stehen unbeweglich / Du bist wie eine Blume / Heinrich Heine
- Juke box love song / Langston Hughes
- Since the majority of me / Philip Larkin
- Did not / Thomas Moore
- My beloved is mine, and I am his / Francis Quarles
- Meeting and passing / Robert Frost
- The cuckoo / Ogden Nash
- Marriage / Anon
- Wish for a young wife / Theodore Roethke
- The purist / Ogden Nash
- In perspective / Robert Graves
- To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet
- Living with a wife / John Updike
- Firelight / E.A. Robinson
- One flesh / Elizabeth Jennings
- His and hers / Peter Porter
- Nothing but no and I / Michael Drayton
- Dancing flame / Robert Graves
- Wrestling / Louisa S. Bevington
- Marriage counsel / John Updike
- Mit deinen blauen Augen / Heinrich Heine
- Perswasions to enjoy / Thomas Carew
- The snapped thread / Robert Graves
- Blest, blest and happy be / Anon
- Im wunderschonen Monat Mai / Heinrich Heine
- By too long gazing on your flawless face / Pierre De Ronsard
- The ninth secret poem / Guillaume Apollinaire
- Full many a glorious morning have I seen / William Shakespeare
- From the back of the room / Rainer Maria Rilke
- Boldnesse in love / Thomas Carew
- A shallot / Richard Wilbur
- Doch die Kastraten klagten / Heinrich Heine
- Japanese fan / Margaret Veley
- Song / Sir John Suckling
- Ich liebe solche weisse Glieder / Heinrich Heine
- Two rural sisters / Charles Cotton
- Song / John Wilmont
- Fatigue / Hilaire Belloc
- Unfortunate coincidence / Dorothy Parker
- Woman and tree / Robert Graves
- In a bath teashop / Sir John Betjeman
- The other / Theodore Roethke
- Particular you / Norman MacCaig
- Love under the republicans / Ogden Nash
- Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul / William Shakespeare
- The azalea / Coventry Patmore
- The way I read a letter's this / Emily Dickinson
- An appeal to cats in the business of love / Thomas Flatman
- Cat-Goddesses / Robert Graves
- Cynthia on horseback / Philip Ayres
- The defiance / Aphra Behn
- The apparition / John Donne
- Still to be neat / Ben Jonson
- To my inconstant mistris / Thomas Carew
- To a lady making love / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Satan, no woman, yet a wandering spirit / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
- The tree in Pamela's garden / E.A. Robinson
- The bachelor's song / Thomas Flatman
- If you don't like my apples / Anon
- Wir standen an der Strasseneck / Heinrich Heine
- The starred coverlet / Robert Graves
- To his mistress, objecting to him neither toying nor talking / Robert Herrick
- To my valentine / Ogden Nash
- Sonnet / Henry King
- Silly boy, 'tis full moon yet / Thomas Campion
- This lunar beauty / W.H. Auden
- How many paltry, foolish, painted things / Michael Drayton
- Insomnia / Elizabeth- B.