The lover showeth how he is forsaken of such as he sometime enjoyed ; The appeal / Sir Thomas Wyatt "One day I wrote her name upon the strand" / Edmund Spenser "As ye came from the Holy Land" ; Her reply / Sir Walter Raleigh "Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show" ; His lady's cruelty ; The bargain / Sir Philip Sidney Cards and kisses / John Lyly A summer song / George Peele Diaphenia / Henry Constable "If this be love, to draw a weary breath" / Samuel Daniel The parting / Michael Drayton The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" ; "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" ; "From you have I been absent in the spring" ; "When in the chronicle of wasted time" ; "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" ; "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" / William Shakespeare Cherry-ripe ; "Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white" ; Vobiscum est Iope / Thomas Campion Elizabeth of Bohemia / Sir Henry Wotton The sun rising ; The canonization ; Song ; The apparition ; The ecstasy ; The funeral ; Elegy: On his mistress going to bed / John Donne To Celia ; The hour glass / Ben Jonson Matin song / Thomas Heywood "I loved a lass, a fair one" / George Wither To the virgins, to make much of time ; Upon Julia's clothes ; Chop-cherry / Robert Herrick A divine rapture / Francis Quarles Sonnet ; Exequy on his wife / Henry King Song ; To his inconstant mistress / Thomas Carew On a girdle ; Song / Edmund Waller On his deceased wife / John Milton "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?" ; The constant lover / Sir John Suckling To Lucasta, going to the wars ; To Althea, from prison ; The scrutiny / Richard Lovelace To his coy mistress ; The definition of love ; The mower to the glo-worms / Andrew Marvell "Farewell, ungrateful traitor!" / John Dryden Return ; A song of a young lady to her ancient lover / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester An ode / Matthew Prior "Pious Selinda goes to prayers" ; "False though she be to me and love" / William Congreve Sweet William's farewell to black-eyed Susan / John Gay Sally in our alley / Henry Carey To Mary / William Cowper "How sweet I roam'd from field to field" ; Love's secret ; The clod and the pebble ; The garden of love / William Blake "Of a' the airts the wind can blaw" ; John Anderson my Jo ; The banks o' doon ; A red, red rose / Robert Burns "Strange fits of passion have I known" ; "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" ; "Surprised by joy--impatient as the wind" / William Wordsworth An hour with thee / Sir Walter Scott "Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives" ; "Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak" ; Rose Aylmer ; "You smiled, you spoke, and I believed" ; "The torch of love dispels the gloom" ; "If I am proud, you surely know" / Walter Savage Landor Freedom and love / Thomas Campbell Did not ; An argument ; At the end of mid hour of night / Thomas Moore "When we two parted" ; "She walks in beauty, like the night" ; "So, we'll go no more a-roving" / George Gordon, Lord Byron Love's philosophy ; To ... ; / Percy Bysshe Shelley First love ; To Mary: "It is the evening hour" ; To Mary: "I sleep with thee, and wake with thee" ; The secret ; I hid my love / John Clare "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art---" / John Keats Ruth / Thomas Hood The wife a-lost / William Barnes "I thought once how Theocritus had sung" ; "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" / Elizabeth Barrett Browning To Helen ; To one in paradise ; Anabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe "Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white" ; "Come not, when I am dead" / Alfred, Lord Tennyson The last ride together ; Meeting at night ; Bad dreams ; Love / Robert Browning Remembrance ; "If grief for grief can touch thee" / Emily Brontë Once I pass'd through a populous city ; When I heard at the close of the day ; Sometimes with one I love ; As if a phantom caress'd me ; From pent-up aching rivers / Walt Whitman Longing ; Absence / Matthew Arnold The revelation ; A farewell ; The azalea / Coventry Patmore Sudden light ; Silent noon ; Severed selves ; Without her ; The orchard-pit / Dante Gabriel Rossetti "By this he knew she wept with waking eyes" ; "In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour" / George Meredith "We outgrow love like other things" ; "My life closed twice before its close" / Emily Dickinson A birthday ; Echo ; May ; The first day / Christina Rossetti Love is enough / William Morris Love and sleep / Algernon Charles Swinburne St. Valentine's day / Wilfrid Blunt A broken appointment ; In a cathedral city ; A thunderstorm in town / Thomas Hardy Renouncement / Alice Meynell "Oh, when I was in love with you" ; "Along the field as we came by" ; "White in the moon the long road lies" / A.E. Housman Down by the Salley gardens ; Brown penny ; A drinking song ; Never give all the heart ; When you are old / W.B. Yeats White heliotrope / Arthur Symons Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae / Ernest Dowson Eros turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson Juliet / Hilaire Belloc Meeting and passing / Robert Frost Gloire de Dijon / D.H. Lawrence The river-merchant's wife: A letter / Ezra Pound Like the touch of rain / Edward Thomas Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom "I, being born a woman and distressed / Edna St. Vincent Millay Carrier letter / Hart Crane
