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Cover About the Author Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Ezra Pound COMMISSION The New Penguin Book of LOVE POETRY

INTIMATIONS

Roy Campbell THE SISTERS Laurie Lee MILKMAID Thomas Randolph THE MILKMAID'S EPITHALAMIUM W. B. Yeats BROWN PENNY Sir John Betjeman MYFANWY Patrick MacDonogh SHE WALKED UNAWARE Carol Ann Duffy WARMING HER PEARLS Charles Cotton TWO RURAL SISTERS Richard Crashaw WISHES TO HIS SUPPOSED MISTRESS Austin Clarke PENAL LAW Robert Graves SYMPTOMS OF LOVE Robert Graves THE FOREBODING

DECLARATIONS

John Berryman John Clare FIRST LOVE Christina Rossetti THE FIRST DAY Elizabeth Barrett Browning SONNET XLIII, FROM THE PORTUGUESE John Keats William Shakespeare William Barnes A ZONG Robert Burns SONG Henry Carey SALLY IN OUR ALLEY Anthony Hecht GOING THE ROUNDS: A SORT OF LOVE POEM William Shakespeare Edmund Spenser Archibald MacLeish ‘NOT MARBLE NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS’ W. B. Yeats A DRINKING SONG Ben Jonson TO CELIA Adrian Mitchell CELIA CELIA Edgar Allan Poe TO HELEN Lord Byron SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY Sir Henry Wotton ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA Thomas Carew SONG Thomas Campion CHERRY–RIPE Anon Sir Charles Sedley TO CLORIS William Shakespeare Geoffrey Chaucer from MERCILESS BEAUTY John Keats Edmund Spenser IAMBICUM TRIMETRUM Thomas Campion VOBISCUM EST IOPE Rupert Brooke SONNET Robert Graves LOVE WITHOUT HOPE Percy Bysshe Shelley TO — William Shakespeare James Graham, Marquis of Montrose I'LL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE T S. Eliot A DEDICATION TO MY WIFE

PERSUASIONS

Robert Herrick TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME John Fletcher LOVE'S EMBLEMS Sir Richard Fanshawe OF BEAUTY Pierre de Ronsard CORINNA IN VENDOME Edmund Waller Dorothy Parker ONE PERFECT ROSE Wendy Cope FLOWERS Carol Ann Duffy VALENTINE William Shakespeare FESTE'S SONG from TWELFTH NIGHT Thomas Hood RUTH John Wilbye LOVE NOT ME Percy Bysshe Shelley LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY Andrew Marvell TO HIS COY MISTRESS Thomas Moore AN ARGUMENT John Donne THE FLEA John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester WRITTEN IN A LADY'S PRAYER BOOK Christopher Marlowe THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE Sir Walter Ralegh HER REPLY Cecil Day Lewis James Fenton HINTERHOF John Keats Sir Thomas Wyatt TO HIS LUTE John Heath-Stubbs BEGGAR'S SERENADE John Crowe Ransom PIAZZA PIECE Christopher Smart THE AUTHOR APOLOGIZES TO A LADY FOR HIS BEING A LITTLE MAN William Walsh LYCE John Donne TO HIS MISTRESS GOING TO BED

CELEBRATIONS

from THE SONG OF SOLOMON CHAPTER 2 Robert Graves SICK LOVE Robert Browning MEETING AT NIGHT Louis MacNeice MEETING POINT F. T. Prince THE QUESTION Dante Gabriel Rossetti SUDDEN LIGHT Anon FOURTH CENTURY PLUCKING THE RUSHES Sir John Betjeman A SUBALTERN'S LOVE-SONG Charles of Orleans Sir Thomas Wyatt Coventry Patmore THE KISS Thomas Moore DID NOT Petronius Arbiter John Berryman Robert Browning from IN A GONDOLA Hugo Williams SOME KISSES FROM THE KAMA SUTRA Rudaki Pablo Neruda Alfred Lord Tennyson from THE PRINCESS D. H. Lawrence NEW YEAR'S EVE Theodore Roethke SHE Ovid ELEGY 5 John Berryman Robert Graves DOWN, WANTON, DOWN! Anon EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Craig Raine SEXUAL COUPLETS E. E. Cummings MAY I FEEL SAID HE Thomas Carew ON THE MARRIAGE OF T.K. AND C.C. THE MORNING STORMY Alfred Lord Tennyson MARRIAGE MORNING Philip Larkin WEDDING–WIND Walt Whitman A. D. Hope THE GATEWAY Richard Brinsley Sheridan THE GERANIUM Abraham Cowley DIALOGUE AFTER ENJOYMENT Sir Charles Sedley ON THE HAPPY CORYDON AND PHYLLIS Catullus Fleur Adcock NOTE ON PROPERTIUS 1.5 Richard Duke John Dryden SONG E. E. Cummings John Donne THE ECSTASY William Davenant UNDER THE WILLOW-SHADES Boris Pasternak HOPS W. R. Rodgers THE NET Algernon Charles Swinburne LOVE AND SLEEP W. H. Auden LULLABY W.B. Yeats LULLABY Anna Wickham THE FIRED POT Alan Ross IN BLOEMFONTEIN James Fenton IN PARIS WITH YOU Robert Graves SHE TELLS HER LOVE WHILE HALF ASLEEP Elizabeth Jennings WINTER LOVE John Donne THE SUN RISING John Donne THE GOOD MORROW Jacques Prévert ALICANTE W. H. Auden John Heath-Stubbs THE UNPREDICTED Petronius Arbiter Lawrence Durrell THIS UNIMPORTANT MORNING Michael Longley THE LINEN INDUSTRY D. H. Lawrence GLOIRE DE DIJON Dick Davis A MONORHYME FOR THE SHOWER Robert Graves THE QUIET GLADES OF EDEN Lawrence Ferlinghetti AWAY ABOVE A HARBORFUL Harry Fainlight A BRIDE Robert Creeley THE WAY Robert Lowell MAN AND WIFE Seamus Heaney THE SKUNK Sir John Harington THE AUTHOR TO HIS WIFE, OF A WOMAN'S ELOQUENCE Anne Bradstreet TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND Anon SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MADRIGAL Octavio Paz TOUCH Charles Baudelaire THE JEWELS J. M. Synge DREAD Ted Hughes SEPTEMBER Guillaume Apollinaire THE MIRABEAU BRIDGE Andrei Voznesensky DEAD STILL Sir Thomas Wyatt Sir Philip Sidney Edwin Muir IN LOVE FOR LONG Catherine Tufariello AFTER ALL Sir Walter Scott AN HOUR WITH THEE John Donne THE ANNIVERSARY Theodore Roethke I KNEW A WOMAN John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A SONG OF A YOUNG LADY TO HER ANCIENT LOVER Lord Byron Fyodor Tyutchev LAST LOVE Robert Burns JOHN ANDERSON MY JO Kenneth Fearing LOVE 20¢ THE FIRST QUARTER MILE

ABERRATIONS

William Congreve SONG Anon SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRAGMENT OF A SONG ON THE BEAUTIFUL WIFE OF DR JOHN OVERALL, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S Sir John Harington OF AN HEROICAL ANSWER OF A GREAT ROMAN LADY TO HER HUSBAND Federico García Lorca THE FAITHLESS WIFE Abraham Cowley HONOUR John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester THE IMPERFECT ENJOYMENT Thomas Hardy THE RUINED MAID Matthew Prior CHASTE FLORIMEL Alexander Pope TWO OR THREE: A RECIPE TO MAKE A CUCKOLD Ovid TO HIS MISTRESS Robert Browning PORPHYRIA'S LOVER Ezra Pound THE TEMPERAMENTS John Berryman Hilaire Belloc JULIET John Press WOMANISERS Mary Jo Salter VIDEO BLUES Edna St Vincent Millay Sophie Hannah SHE HAS ESTABLISHED TITLE Sophie Hannah CREDIT FOR THE CARD Seamus Heaney A DREAM OF JEALOUSY Robert Henryson ROBENE AND MAKYNE George Wither A LOVER'S RESOLUTION A. E. Housman Bhartrhari Robert Graves THE THIEVES Abraham Cowley THE WELCOME Sir John Suckling John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester LOVE AND LIFE Tony Harrison THE BEDBUG Richard Lovelace THE SCRUTINY Martial John Donne THE INDIFFERENT D. H. Lawrence INTIMATES Bhartrhari Walter Savage Landor Richard Weber ELIZABETH IN ITALY John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A SONG Robert Graves A SLICE OF WEDDING CAKE Fleur Adcock AGAINST COUPLING

SEPARATIONS

Anon SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Thom Gunn CARNAL KNOWLEDGE Anon Anon SIXTEENTH CENTURY AUBADE John Donne SONG Robert Burns A RED RED ROSE Hart Crane CARRIER LETTER E. E. Cummings Alun Lewis POSTSCRIPT: FOR GWENO W. H. Auden Robert Browning THE LOST MISTRESS Michael Drayton Coventry Patmore A FAREWELL Alun Lewis GOODBYE Frances Cornford PARTING IN WARTIME John Gay SWEET WILLIAM'S FAREWELL TO BLACK–EYED SUSAN Robert Burns SONG Emily Dickinson Edward Thomas LIKE THE TOUCH OF RAIN Harold Monro THE TERRIBLE DOOR Thomas Hardy IN THE VAULTED WAY Anna Akhmatova Brian Patten PARTY PIECE Yehuda Amichai A PITY. WE WERE SUCH A GOOD INVENTION Lord Byron Alice Meynell RENOUNCEMENT Alain Chartier Alexander Pope EPISTLE TO MISS BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN, AFTER THE CORONATION Wendy Cope AFTER THE LUNCH Walter Savage Landor WHAT NEWS Li Po [Rihaku] THE RIVER–MERCHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER Anon TENTH CENTURY THE WIFE'S COMPLAINT Ernest Dowson EXILE Kit Wright CAMPIONESQUE FOR ANNA Lady Heguri Christina Rossetti REMEMBER Christina Rossetti SONG Philip Bourke Marston INSEPARABLE E. E. Cummings John Cornford HUESCA Henry King THE SURRENDER R. S. Thomas MADRIGAL Luis de Camoëns Lady Catherine Dyer EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM DYER AT COLMWORTH, 1641 Henry King THE EXEQUY Peter Porter AN EXEQUY John Milton Sir Henry Wotton UPON THE DEATH OF SIR ALBERT MORTON'S WIFE

DESOLATIONS

Sappho Sir Philip Sidney Sir John Suckling A DOUBT OF MARTYRDOM Matthew Arnold TO MARGUERITE – CONTINUED Andrew Marvell THE DEFINITION OF LOVE Petrarch Sir Thomas Wyatt Thomas Campion Kit Wright MY VERSION Catullus Meleager William Blake MY PRETTY ROSE TREE William Walsh LOVE AND JEALOUSY Sir John Suckling SONG Tony Connor APOLOGUE Donald Justice IN BERTRAM'S GARDEN Louis MacNeice CHRISTINA Oliver Goldsmith SONG John Dryden Anon SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Charles Baudelaire DAMNED WOMEN DELPHINE AND HIPPOLYTA A. E. Housman W. B. Yeats NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART Christina Rossetti MIRAGE Wendy Cope BLOODY MEN Robert Burns THE BANKS O' DOON William Blake THE SICK ROSE Yehuda Amichai QUICK AND BITTER Dante Gabriel Rossetti from THE HOUSE OF LIFE SEVERED SELVES W. D. Snodgrass NO USE Elizabeth Bishop ONE ART Hugh MacDiarmid O WHA'S THE BRIDE? Charlotte Mew THE FARMER'S BRIDE D. H. Lawrence LOVE ON THE FARM Louis MacNeice LES SYLPHIDES Jonathan Price A CONSIDERED REPLY TO A CHILD Philip Larkin TALKING IN BED Edward Thomas AND YOU, HELEN George Meredith from MODERN LOVE George Macdonald A MAMMON–MARRIAGE Robert Graves CALL IT A GOOD MARRIAGE Thomas Hardy THE NEWCOMERS WIFE Anon BONNY BARBARA ALLAN W. H. Auden from TWELVE SONGS Thomas Hardy BEREFT Mary Coleridge ‘MY TRUE LOVE HATH MY HEART AND I HAVE HIS’ John Keats LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI

REVERBERATIONS

W.B. Yeats WHEN YOU ARE OLD Robert Burns SONG Paul Éluard CURFEW W. B. Yeats WHENCE HAD THEY COME? Robert Graves NEVER SUCH LOVE Dorothy Parker UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE Meleager Hedylos SEDUCED GIRL Alexander Scott A RONDEL OF LOVE George Granville, Baron Lansdowne LOVE William Congreve Louis MacNeice THE SUNLIGHT ON THE GARDEN Sir Walter Ralegh WALSINGHAM Dante Gabriel Rossetti AN OLD SONG ENDED François Villon THE OLD LADY'S LAMENT FOR HER YOUTH W. B. Yeats CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP Horace Queen Elizabeth I Louis Simpson Henry Reed from LESSONS OF THE WAR JUDGING DISTANCES Thomas Hardy UNDER THE WATERFALL Edwin Morgan STRAWBERRIES Andrew Motion ON THE TABLE Thomas Hardy A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN (A REMINISCENCE: 1893) Wilfrid Blunt FAREWELL TO JULIET Seamus Heaney from GLANMORE SONNETS Stevie Smith I REMEMBER Arthur Symons WHITE HELIOTROPE W. B. Yeats CHOSEN Yehuda Amichai WE DID IT Louis Simpson THE CUSTOM OF THE WORLD William Soutar THE TRYSTING PLACE Paul Dehn AT THE DARK HOUR Sir Edward Dyer A SILENT LOVE W. H. Auden SONG OF THE MASTER AND BOATSWAIN Thomas Hardy THE BALLAD-SINGER Edna St Vincent Millay Derek Mahon GIRLS IN THEIR SEASONS John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester THE DISABLED DEBAUCHEE Sir Thomas Wyatt Robert Graves THE WREATH Lord Byron Ernest Dowson NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE A. E. Housman Emily Dickinson Anon SIXTEENTH CENTURY Anthony Astbury WHAT WOULDN'T I GIVE W. B. Yeats AFTER LONG SILENCE Thom Gunn THE HUG Donald Davie TIME PASSING, BELOVED George Crabbe A MARRIAGE RING Simon Armitage ABOUT HIS PERSON John Donne THE FUNERAL Robert Lowell THE OLD FLAME Anonymous Frontier Guard EIGHTH CENTURY Thomas Hardy TWO LIPS William Wordsworth William Barnes THE WIFE A–LOST Emily Brontë REMEMBRANCE Paul Verlaine William Wordsworth William Barnes SONNET Douglas Dunn FRANCE John Clare TO MARY: IT IS THE EVENING HOUR Alfred Lord Tennyson IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETZ Thomas Hardy THE VOICE Walter Savage Landor ROSE AYLMER Christina Rossetti ECHO Dylan Thomas IN MY CRAFT OR SULLEN ART Thomas Hardy IN TIME OF ‘THE BREAKING OF NATIONS’

Acknowledgements Index of Poets and Translators Index of Titles and First Lines Footnotes

Introduction

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