Love Poetry Out Loud

✍ Scribed by Rubin, Robert Alden; Rubin, Robert Alden

• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: en-ca
• Weight: 92 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

4. Eye of the beholder -- How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Juke box love song / Langston Hughes -- To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet -- From Homage to Mistress Bradstreet / John Berryman -- Song : to Celia / Ben Jonson -- A red, red rose / Robert Burns -- Ask me no more / Thomas Carew -- A girl in a library / Randall Jarrell -- "Not marble nor the gilded monuments" / William Shakespeare -- "Not marble nor the gilded monuments" / Archibald MacLeish -- 5. Loves me -- A birthday / Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Thou art my lute / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond / E.E. Cummings -- Love poem / Connie Voisine -- The song of songs (7:1-8:3) / The New English Bible -- "If I profane with my unworthiest hand" (from Romeo and Juliet) / William Shakespeare -- Now sleeps the crimson petal / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- When we two parted / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- "Joy of my life, full oft for loving you" / Edmund Spenser -- The changed man / Robert Phillips.;6. Loves me not -- Then came flowers / Rita Dove -- The defiance / Aphra Behn -- A valediction : forbidding mourning / John Donne -- When you are old / W.B. Yeats -- I will not give thee all my heart / Grace Hazard Conkling -- Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy -- "I hear an army charging upon the land" / James Joyce -- Silentium amoris / Oscar Wilde -- Variations on the word love / Margaret Atwood -- Taking off my clothes / Carolyn Forché -- 7. Pleasures of the flesh -- Wrestling / Louisa S. Bevington -- Wet / Marge Piercy -- Down, Wanton, down! / Robert Graves -- Poem for Sigmund / Lorna Crozier -- Lullaby / W.H. Auden -- Green / Paul Verlaine -- Coral / Derek Walcott -- Her lips are copper wire / Jean Toomer -- "Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy" / John Donne -- The aged lover discourses in the flat style / J.V. Cunningham -- 8. Will you miss me when I'm gone? -- The river-merchant's wife : a letter / Ezra Pound -- Letter home / Stephen Dunn -- The voice / Thomas Hardy -- I will not let thee go / Robert Bridges -- The meeting / Katherine Mansfield -- Still looking out for number one / Raymond Carver -- Bearded oaks / Robert Penn Warren -- 48 hours after you left / DJ Renegade -- "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" / William Shakespeare -- Good night / W.S. Merwin.;Why love poetry? -- 1. Silly love songs -- Litany / Billy Collins -- For an amorous lady / Theodore Roethke -- She's all my fancy painted him / Lewis Carroll -- The Lingam and the Yoni / A.D. Hope -- To an usherette / John Updike -- Love under the Republicans (or Democrats) / Ogden Nash -- Love : two vignettes / Robert Penn Warren -- Resignation / Nikki Giovanni -- "O mistress mine" (from Twelfth night) / William Shakespeare -- Nothing but No and I / Michael Drayton -- 2. Hello, I love you -- The good morrow / John Donne -- "Wild nights, wild nights!" / Emily Dickinson -- Meeting and passing / Robert Frost -- The greeting / R.H.W. Dillard -- The light / Common -- "The twenty-ninth bather" (from Song of myself) / Walt Whitman -- Thine eyes still shined / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Surprised by joy / William Wordsworth -- Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Poem / Seamus Heaney -- 3. The comedy of Eros -- Pucker / Ritah Parrish -- Love portions / Julia Alvarez -- Lonely hearts / Wendy Cope -- "I, being born a woman" / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Love song : I and thou / Alan Dugan -- Love song / Dorothy Parker -- The nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Portrait of a lady / William Carlos Williams -- Where be ye going, you Devon maid? / John Keats -- Brown penny / W.B. Yeats.;9. Failure to communicate -- Never pain to tell thy love / William Blake -- You say I love not / Robert Herrick -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- Adam's curse / W.B. Yeats -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" / Emily Dickinson -- "Since the majority of me" / Philip Larkin -- The rival / Sylvia Plath -- The lost mistress / Robert Browning -- Sleeping with you / John Updike -- 10. Second time around -- "Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part" / Michael Drayton -- "Sign no more, ladies" (from Much ado about nothing) / William Shakespeare -- Sources of the Delaware / Dean Young -- December at Yase / Gary Snyder -- Freedom / Jan Struther -- Good morning, love! / Paul Blackburn -- I so like spring / Charlotte Mew -- I look into my glass / Thomas Hardy -- An answer to a love letter in verse / Lady Mary Wortley Montague -- Symptom recital / Dorothy Parker -- Index of titles -- Index of first lines -- Index of authors.;Presents a collection of one hundred poems about love, organized into such categories as silly love songs, loves me not, and failure to communicate, and includes poems by Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Seamus Heaney.