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 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 --
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.
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 --
Down, Wanton, down! / Robert Graves --
Poem for Sigmund / Lorna Crozier --
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.
9. A 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 liked spring / Charlotte Mew --
I look into my glass / Thomas Hardy --
An answer to a love letter in verse / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu --
Symptom recital / Dorothy Parker --
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