Love Poetry Out Loud by Rubin, Robert Alden -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Dedication Acknowledgments Contents Why Love Poetry? 1. Silly Love Songs

Litany—Billy Collins For an Amorous Lady—Theodore Roethke She’s All My Fancy Painted Him—Lewis Carroll The Lingam and the Yoni—A. D. Hope To an Usherette—John Updike Love under the Republicans (or Democrats)—Ogden Nash Love: Two Vignettes—Robert Penn Warren Resignation—Nikki Giovanni “O Mistress Mine” (from Twelfth Night)—William Shakespeare Nothing but No and I—Michael Drayton

2. Hello, I Love You

The Good Morrow—John Donne “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”—Emily Dickinson Meeting and Passing—Robert Frost The Greeting—R. H. W. Dillard The Light—Common “The Twenty-ninth Bather” (from Song of Myself)—Walt Whitman Thine Eyes Still Shined—Ralph Waldo Emerson Surprised by Joy—William Wordsworth Love’s Philosophy—Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem—Seamus Heaney

3. The Comedy of Eros

Pucker—Ritah Parrish Love Portions—Julia Alvarez Lonely Hearts—Wendy Cope “I, being born a woman”—Edna St. Vincent Millay Love Song: I and Thou—Alan Dugan Love Song—Dorothy Parker The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd—Sir Walter Raleigh Portrait of a Lady—William Carlos Williams Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid?—John Keats Brown Penny—W. B. Yeats

4. Eye of the Beholder

How Do I Love Thee?—Elizabeth Barrett Browning Juke Box Love Song—Langston Hughes To My Dear and Loving Husband—Anne Bradstreet from Homage to Mistress Bradstreet—John Berryman Song: To Celia—Ben Jonson A Red, Red Rose—Robert Burns Ask Me No More—Thomas Carew A Girl in a Library—Randall Jarrell “Not marble nor the gilded monuments”—William Shakespeare “Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments”—Archibald MacLeish

5. Loves Me

6. Loves Me Not

Then Came Flowers—Rita Dove The Defiance—Aphra Behn A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning—John Donne When You Are Old—W. B. Yeats I Will Not Give Thee All My Heart—Grace Hazard Conkling Neutral Tones—Thomas Hardy “I hear an army charging upon the land”—James Joyce Silentium Amoris—Oscar Wilde Variations on the Word Love—Margaret Atwood Taking Off My Clothes—Carolyn Forché

7. Pleasures of the Flesh

Wrestling—Louisa S. Bevington Wet—Marge Piercy Down, Wanton, Down!—Robert Graves Poem for Sigmund—Lorna Crozier Lullaby—W. H. Auden Green—Paul Verlaine Coral—Derek Walcott Her Lips Are Copper Wire—Jean Toomer “Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defy”—John Donne The Aged Lover Discourses in the Flat Style—J. V. Cunningham

8. Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone?

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter—Ezra Pound Letter Home—Stephen Dunn The Voice—Thomas Hardy I Will Not Let Thee Go—Robert Bridges The Meeting—Katherine Mansfield Still Looking Out for Number One—Raymond Carver Bearded Oaks—Robert Penn Warren 48 Hours after You Left—DJ Renegade “That time of year thou mayst in me behold”—William Shakespeare Good Night—W. S. Merwin

9. A Failure to Communicate

Never Pain to Tell Thy Love—William Blake You Say I Love Not—Robert Herrick The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock—T. S. Eliot Adam’s Curse—W. B. Yeats Fire and Ice—Robert Frost “After great pain, a formal feeling comes”—Emily Dickinson “Since the majority of me”—Philip Larkin The Rival—Sylvia Plath The Lost Mistress—Robert Browning Sleeping with You—John Updike

10. Second Time Around

“Since there’s no help, come, let us kiss and part”—Michael Drayton “Sigh No More, Ladies” (from Much Ado About Nothing)—William Shakespeare Sources of the Delaware—Dean Young December at Yase—Gary Snyder Freedom—Jan Struther Good Morning, Love!—Paul Blackburn I So Liked Spring—Charlotte Mew I Look into My Glass—Thomas Hardy An Answer to a Love Letter in Verse—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Symptom Recital—Dorothy Parker

Index of Titles Index of First Lines Index of Authors Copyright Also by Robert Aldan Rubin