Great Love Poems

Never give all the heart for love<br>Will hardly seem worth thinking of<br>To passionate women if it seem<br>Certain and they never dream<br>That it fades out from kiss to kiss;<br>For everything that's lovely is<br>But a brief dreamy kind delight. <br>-- W. B. Yeats<br>Down through the millennia the emotion of love has inspired countless poets to great heights of lyrical expression. In this volume readers can sample more than 150 great love poems by English and American poets. Spanning over four centuries of literary creation in the service of amour the works include a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets John Donne's The Ecstasy William Blake's The Garden of Love Robert Burns's The Banks o'Doon and John Anderson My Jo Lord Byron's She Walks in Beauty Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee Robert Browning's Meeting at Night as well as works by W. B. Yeats Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Keats Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson John Milton Richard Lovelace Sir John Suckling Matthew Arnold A. E. Housman Edna St. Vincent Millay and Robert Frost.