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    Poetry For Valentines
    Poetry For Valentines
    Poetry For Valentines
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    Poetry For Valentines

    By William Shakespeare, John Keats and Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    Poetry For Valentines. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this volume we look at the poetry of Valentine’s, of those hopelessly in love, sometimes knowingly sometimes unrequited but all bound up in the passion, haste and unyielding demands of the heart. We have recorded many of these poems and they are available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781780006970
    Poetry For Valentines
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

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      Poetry For Valentines - William Shakespeare

      Poetry For Valentines

      Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this volume we look at the poetry of Valentine’s, of those hopelessly in love, sometimes knowingly sometimes unrequited but all bound up in the passion, haste and unyielding demands of the heart.

      We have recorded many of these poems and they are available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. 

      Index Of Poems

      Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art By John Keats

      Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold

      Lovers' Infiniteness By John Donne

      She Walks In Beauty By Lord Byron

      Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day? By William Shakespeare

      How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

      The Ecstasy By John Donne

      To His Coy Mistress By Andrew Marvell

      To My Dear And Loving Husband By Anne Bradstreet

      Alas Madam For Stealing Of A Kiss By Sir Thomas Wyatt

      Romance By Robert Louis Stevenson

      Marriage Morning By Alfred Lord Tennyson

      The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal By Alfred Lord Tennyson

      The Lost Mistress By Robert Browning

      Before Parting By Algernon Charles Swinburne

      Love And Sleep By Algernon Charles Swinburne

      Dead Love By Algernon Charles Swinburne

      Never Seek to Tell thy Love By William Blake

      Desire By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

      Love By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

      First Love By John Clare

      Love’s Philosophy By Percy Bysshe Shelley

      Modern Love By John Keats

      When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be By John Keats

      I Cry Your Mercy – Pity - Love! Aye, Love! By John Keats

      Beauty By John Masefield

      Eros A Poem By Ralph Waldo Emerson

      Music, When Soft Voices Die By Percy Bysshe Shelley

      Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not At First Sight? By Christopher Marlowe

      Wedlock By Benjamin Franklin

      Where Shall The Lover Rest By Sir Walter Scott

      Voices At The Window By Sir Philip Sidney

      To A Husband By Anne Finch

      The Passionate Shepherd To His Love By Christopher Marlowe

      The Great Lover By Rupert Brooke

      The Love Unfeigned By Geoffrey Chaucer

      If Thou Must love Me Let It Be For Nought By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

      Remembrance By Emily Bronte

      My Delight And Thy Delight By Robert Bridges

      She Comes Not When Noon Is On The Roses By Herbert Trench

      Meeting At Night By Robert Browning

      O Nightingale That On Yon Bloomy Spray By John Milton

      Porphyria's Lover By Robert Browning

      Her Voice By Oscar Wilde

      Bride Song By Christina Rossetti

      Thou Blind Fool Love By William Shakespeare

      My Love Is As A Fever By William Shakespeare

      A Valentine By Edgar Allen Poe

      Love Song By William Butler Yeats

      A Woman Waits For Me By Walt Whitman

      Fast Anchor’d Eternal O Love By Walt Whitman

      I Am He That Aches With Love By Walt Whitman

      Love Song By Rainer Maria Rilke

      St Valentines Day By Edith Nesbit

      The Kiss By Edith Nesbit

      All That Love Asks by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

      Friendship After Love

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