365 Love Poems Author:John Gabriel Hunt (Editor) The subject of love has occupied the thoughts and creative powers of the world's poets for centuries. Perhaps the most human and imposing emotions, love in all its guises has inspired poems passionate and reflective, lustful and spiritual, joyous and angry. — There are 365 love poems in this volume--one for every day of the year, and suited to ev... more »ery mood and taste. Certainly, styles and languages reflect their times; and a poem by Robert Herrick from the seventeenth century sounds very different than twentieth-century lines by Carl Sandburg. But concerns and sentiments have remained surprisingly constant, and words written in years past reflect today's personal experiences of love.
The poems are arranged thematically, which will aid the reader who, on a particular day, may wish to dwell upon a poem about physical love rather than lost love, or vice versa. An alphabetical Index of poets provides a complete listing of all 365 poems.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Henry Alford -- Dante Alighieri -- William Allingham -- Richard Allison -- Matthew Arnold -- Robert Ayton -- Bernard Barton -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- William Blake -- Mathilde Blind -- Anne Bradstreet -- Oliver Madox Brown -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Robert Browning -- William Cullen Bryant -- Samuel Egerton Brydges -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- Robert Burns -- Amelia Josephine Burr -- Lord Byron -- Thomas Campbell -- Thomas Campion -- Thomas Carew -- William Cartwright -- Alice Cary -- Guido Cavalcanti -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- John Clare -- Willis Gaylord Clarke -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- William Congreve -- Henry Constable -- Barry Cornwall -- George Crabbe -- Mrs. Crawford -- Allan Cunningham -- Samuel Daniel -- George Darley -- Rufus Dawes -- Margaret Deland -- Emily Dickinson -- John Donne -- Ernest Dowson -- Michael Drayton -- John Dryden -- George Etherege -- Edward Fitzgerald -- John Freeman -- Robert Frost -- Robert Greene -- Bartholomew Griffin -- Gerald Griffin -- Guido Guinicelli -- Thomas Hardy -- Helen Hay -- George Herbert -- Robert Herrick -- Thomas Heywood -- Thomas Hood -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Richard M. Milnes Houghton -- Richard Hovey -- Tobias Hume -- Jean Ingelow -- Helen Hunt Jackson -- Charles Jefferys -- Lucy White Jennison -- Ben Jonson -- John Keats -- Lady Caroline Keppel -- Charles Lamb -- Walter Savage Landor -- Thomas Lodge -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Richard Lovelace -- Samuel Lover -- James Russell Lowell -- Lord Robert Bulwer Lytton -- George MacDonald -- Christopher Marlowe -- Andrew Marvell -- George Meredith -- Alice Meynell -- James Graham Montrose -- Thomas Moore -- E. Nesbit -- Coventry Patmore -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Samuel Minturn Peck -- Nora Perry -- John James Piatt -- Edward Coate Pinkney -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Mrs. David Porter -- Adelaide Anne Proctor -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- R. W. Raymond -- James Whitcomb Riley -- Samuel Rogers -- Christina Rossetti -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Carl Sandburg -- John Savary -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Charles Sedley -- William Shakespeare -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Elizabeth Siddal -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Edward Rowland Sill -- Robert Southey -- Robert William Spencer -- Edmund Spenser -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- William Strode -- Sir John Suckling -- Charles Swain -- Jonathan Swift -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Joshua Sylvester -- Arthur Symons -- Bayard Taylor -- Lord Alfred Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Henry Timrod -- Katrina Trask -- Edmund Waller -- John Whittier Greenleaf -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- John Wilmot -- William Winter -- George Wither -- William Wordsworth -- Sir Thomas Wyatt -- William Butler Yeats.« less