Art & love: an illustrated anthology of love poetry

My-ness : My-ness / Czeslaw Milosz

My baby has no name yet / Kim Nam-Jo

Seventeen months / Carl Sandburg

Rocking my child / Gabriela Mistral

Children / Po Chü-I

A child is something else again / Yehuda Amichai

Infancy / Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Our child / Pablo Neruda

For thee, little boy / Virgil

For Aitana / Rafael Alberti

Home-sickness / Charlotte Brontë

To my sister / William Wordsworth

In memory of my mother / Patrick Kavanagh

A celebration for George Sarton / May Sarton

Energy / Raymond Carver.

Oath of friendship : Oath of friendship / Anonymous, China, 1st century B.C.

None of us are as young / W.H. Auden

Sonnet / Dante Alighieri

You playmates of mine / Rainer Maria Rilke

The thousandth man / Rudyard Kipling

At the end of spring / Po Chü-I

Hearing that his friend was coming back from the war / Wang Chien

Sonnet XXX / William Shakespeare

Bars / Nicolás Guillén

After drinking all night with a friend, we go out in a boat at dawn to see who can write the best poem / Robert Bly

The telephone / Robert Frost

Letter to N.Y. / Elizabeth Bishop

To L.R-M / Noel Coward

Poem / Frank O'Hara

The north coast / Gary Snyder

Autumn leaves / James Schuyler

Parting / Taniguchi Buson

The meeting of the waters / Thomas Moore.

Go, lovely rose : Song / Edmund Waller

To his love / Anonymous, English

I hid my love / John Clare

Song / Rupert Brooke

The unknown / Edward Thomas

You who never arrived / Rainer Maria Rilke

Love song / William Carlos Williams

If you were coming in the fall / Emily Dickinson

I have loved hours at sea / Sara Teasdale

To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell

The kiss / Coventry Patmore

Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley

The garden / Jacques Prévert

Recipe for happiness Khabarovsk or anyplace / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe

The nymph's reply to the Shepherd / Sir Walter Ralegh

Gray room / Wallace Stevens

Everything promised him to me / Anna Akhmatova

He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats

Sonnet / Owen Barfield

Juliet / Hilaire Belloc

The Olympic girl / Sir John Betjeman

Personal column / Basil Bunting

Is it a month / John Synge

O blush not so! O blush not so! / John Keats

Come, and be my baby / Maya Angelou.

Let me count the ways : Sonnet XLIII, from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Madrigal / Anonymous, English, 17th century

The two uses / Robert Francis

To Laura / Petrarch

Eve speaks to Adam / John Milton

One day I wrote her name upon the strand / Edmund Spenser

Sonnet XVIII / William Shakespeare

Where does this tenderness come from? / Marina Tsvetayeva

Song : to Celia / Ben Jonson

She walks in beauty / Lord Byron

Love poem / Plato

A drinking song / William Butler Yeats

A red, red rose / Robert Burns

Stella's birth-day / Jonathan Swift

your birthday comes to tell me this / E.E. Cummings

A very Valentine / Gertrude Stein

somewhere i have never travelled / E.E. Cummings

Portrait of a lady / William Carlos Williams

Variation / Federico García Lorca

I want to breathe / James Laughlin

For an amorous lady / Theodore Roethke

Lady love / Paul Eluard

To you / Kenneth Koch

The confirmation / Edwin Muir.

The mess of love : The mess of love / D.H. Lawrence

I am no good at love / Noel Coward

I can't hold you and I can't leave you / Juana Inés Dela Cruz

The street in shadow / Antonio Machado Ruiz

Rooms / Charlotte Mew

She's gazing at you so tenderly / Alexander Pushkin

My woman / Catullus

When love flies in / Walter de la Mare

When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman

Song / John Donne

wearing the collar / Charles Bukowski

Parting / Anna Swir

Chance / H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Loneliness / Kenneth Rexroth

The more loving one / W.H. Auden

3 little poems / Ron Padgett

Crystal Palace Market / James Laughlin

"If only I knew the truth, I swear I would act on it

" /

Paul Goodman

Love is a secret feeding fire / Anonymous, English

Softly / John White

Mirabeau Bridge / Guillaume Apollinaire.

Yesterday he still looked in my eyes : Yesterday he still looked in my eyes / Marina Tsvetayeva

Farewell ungrateful traitor / John Dryden

The stars stand up in the air / Anonymous, Irish

Souvenirs / Dudley Randall

Alone in her beauty / Tu Fu

A loon I thought it was / Anonymous, Chippewa Indian

The rejected wife / Anonymous, China

The spring and the fall / Edna St. Vincent Millay

I do not look for love that is a dream / Christina Rossetti

Response / Mary Ursula Bethell

The impulse / Robert Frost

I walked past a house where I lived once / Yehuda Amichai

A rant / Frank O'Hara

A spring night in Shokoku-ji / Gary Snyder

The night has a thousand eyes / Francis William Bourdillon

Western wind, when will thou blow / Anonymous, English, 16th century

When you are old / William Butler Yeats

Joys that sting / C.S. Lewis

Rain / Margaret Newlin

To... / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometimes with one I love / Walt Whitman

Past one o'clock... / Vladimir Mayakovsky

Lament / Pindar

Listen, will you learn to hear me from afar / Jules Supervielle.

To the marriage of true minds : Sonnect CXVI / William Shakespeare

To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet

Although I conquer all the Earth / Anonymous, Ancient India

Galante Garden : I / Juan Ramón Jiménez

Song of Songs / The Song of Solomon

Quatrain / Jalal-Ud-Din Rumi

So let's live, really live! / Catullus

Anniversary on the island / W.S. Merwin

She was a phantom of delight / William Wordsworth

A dedication to my wife / T.S. Eliot

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Amorous anticipation / Jorge Luis Borges

Portrait of a woman at her bath / William Carlos Williams

The garret / Ezra Pound

Love recognized / Robert Penn Warren

Natural history / E.B. White

Fall of the evening star / Kenneth Patchen

Love / Robert Browning

Such different wants / Robert Bly

For the moment / Pierre Reverdy

The double bubble of infinity / Kate Farrell

The old words / David Wagoner

Old song / Robert Creeley

Unending love / Rabindranath Tagore.

Give all to love : Give all to love / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Darling of God and men / Lucretius

Song / William Blake

Answer to a child's question / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What there is / Kenneth Patchen

Love poem / Kathleen Raine

In love for long / Edwin Muir

The woman in sunshine / Wallace Stevens

Solo for Saturday night guitar / Carl Sandburg

Love what it is / Robert Herrick

Love lives beyond the tomb / John Clare

Lines / Thomas Hardy

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art / John Keats

Late fragment / Raymond Carver

Once more, the round / Theodore Roethke

The world was warm and white when I was born / Delmore Schwartz

Love tells us who we are / Donald T. Sanders.