Great love poems, paperback/shane weller

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything thats lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.

Yeats 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 Shakespeares sonnets, John Donnes ``The Ecstasy,`` William Blakes ``The Garden of Love,`` Robert Burnss ``The Banks oDoon`` and ``John Anderson My Jo,`` Lord Byrons ``She Walks in Beauty,`` Edgar Allan Poes ``Annabel Lee,`` Robert Brownings ``Meeting at Night,`` as well as works by W.

Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling, Matthew Arnold, A.

Housman, Edna St.

Vincent Millay, and Robert Frost.

Includes two selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: ``Sonnet 73`` and ``Song.