Index of Authors

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A

Anonymous
Absence, heare thou my Protestation
Blow, northerne wind
Farewell, dear love, since thou wilt needs be gone
He is Far
Hopeless desire soon withers and dies
How to Choose a Mistress
I am the rose of Sharon
I gently touched her hand
I have a gentil cok
I saw my lady weep
Ladie Greensleeues
Love in thy youth, fair maid
Love is a secret feeding fire
Love is Weal, Love is Wo
My Love in her attire doth show her wit
Once did my thoughts both ebb and flow
One Writing against His Prick
On Some Snow That Melted on a Lady's Breast
Separated Lovers
Stay, O sweet, and do not rise
The fountains smoke and yet no flames they show
The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall
There is a lady sweet and kind
The stars stand up in the air
The Unquiet Grave
The Wee Wee Man
To his Loue
Weepe you no more sad fountaines
Westron wynde when wylle thow blow

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Absence
Requiescat
To Marguerite — Continued

W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe's
Lullaby
Some say that love's a little boy
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone

B

Henry Baker (1698-1774)
Love

William Barnes (1801-1886)
A Zong ("O Jenny, don't sobby! vor I shall be true")
Sonnet ("In ev'ry dream thy lovely features rise")
The Wife a-lost

Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
Song. Love Arm'd

William Blake (1757-1827)
Never seek to tell thy Love
Several Questions Answerd
Song ("My silks and fine array")
The Clod & the Pebble
The Garden of Love
The Sick Rose

Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921)
The night has a thousand eyes

Mark Alexander Boyd (1563-1601)
Sonet

Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672)
To my Dear and loving Husband

Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
Had there been falshood in my breast
Remembrance

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
When our two souls stand up erect and strong

Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Love
Love in a Life
Meeting at Night
She sings
The Last Ride Together
The Lost Mistress
Two in the Campagna

Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Ae Fond Kiss
A Red, Red Rose
Green Grow the Rashes, O
John Anderson My Jo
Of a' the Airts
O, Were My Love Yon Lilack Fair
Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonie Doon

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Fare Thee Well!
She Walks in Beauty
So, we'll go no more a roving
Stanzas ("Could Love for ever")
When we two parted

C

Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
Beauty is but a painted hell
Beauty, since you so much desire
Come, O come, my lifes delight
Follow your Saint, follow with accents sweet
I care not for these Ladies
Kinde are her answeres
My love bound me with a kiss
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love
O what unhop't for sweet supply!
Rose-cheekt Lawra, come
There is a Garden in her face
Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white
Vaine men, whose follies make a God of Love
When thou must home to shades of under ground

Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
A Rapture
A Song ("Aske me no more where Iove bestowes")
Conquest by flight
Eternitie of love protested
Mediocritie in love rejected
Perswasions to enjoy
To my inconstant Mistris

Henry Carey (c. 1687-1743)
Love's a Riddle
The Ballad of Sally in our Alley

William Cartwright (1611-1643)
No Platonique Love

Catullus (c. 84-54 BC)
I hate & love
Lesbia, let us live only for loving
My woman says there is no one whom she'd rather marry
Sparrow, you darling pet of my beloved
Wretched Catullus! You have to stop this nonsense

Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
O! synge untoe mie roundelaie

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
Canticus Troili
Merciles Beaute
She is the clernesse and the verray lyght
Therwith, whan he was war and gan biholde

Henry Chettle (c. 1560-1607)
Diaphenia like the Daffadown-dillie

John Clare (1793-1864)
An Invite to Eternity
First Love
Fragment
Love's Pains
Mary
Silent Love
Song ("I hid my love")
Song ("In this cold world without a home")
Song ("Love lives beyond")
Song ("Say What Is Love")
Stanzas ("Black absence hides upon the past")
The Meeting
To Mary

Austin Clarke (1896-1974)
Penal Law

Leonard Cohen (1934-)
For Anne

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
And in Life's noisiest hour
Desire
Farewell to Love
Love
Recollections of Love
To Asra

William Congreve (1670-1729)
Song ("False though she be to me and Love")
Song ("Pious Selinda goes to Pray'rs")

Henry Constable (1562-1613)
Deere to my soule, then leaue me not forsaken
To liue in hell, and heauen to behold

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
The Change
The Thief

William Cowper (1731-1800)
Crazy Kate
To Mary

Richard Crashaw (c. 1612-1649)
An Epitaph Vpon Husband and Wife, which died, and were buried together
Wishes. To his (supposed) Mistresse

D

Charlotte Dacre (c. 1771-1825)
To Him Who Says He Loves

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
Behold what happe Pigmaleon had to frame
Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night
If this be loue, to drawe a weary breath
Let others sing of Knights and Palladines
Looke Delia how wee steeme the half-blowne Rose
Loue is a sicknes full of woes
When Winter snowes vpon thy golden heares

Sir William Davenant (1606-1668)
Song ("Before we shall again behold")

Sir John Davies (1569-1626)
Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes

Walter Davison (c. 1581-1608)
At her faire hands how haue I grace intreated

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Love — is anterior to Life
My life closed twice before its close
That Love is all there is
The Heart asks Pleasure — first
The Soul selects her own Society
We outgrow love, like other things
Wild Nights — Wild Nights!

John Donne (1572-1631)
A Valediction: forbidding Mourning
Farewell to Love
Loues Progresse
Loves Deitie
Negative Love
Shee, shee is dead
Since she whome I lovd, hath payd her last debt
Song ("Goe, and catche a falling starre")
Song ("Sweetest love, I do not goe")
The Anniversarie
The Apparition
The Baite
The Broken Heart
The Exstasie
The Flea
The Good-morrow
The Relique
The Sunne Rising
The Triple Foole
To his Mistress going to bed

Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
A Valediction
Exile
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae

Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
An euill spirit your beautie haunts Me still
As Loue and I, late harbour'd in one Inne
How many paltry, foolish, painted things
Since ther's no helpe, Come let vs kisse and part
Soe well I love thee
To His Coy Loue, A Canzonet

John Dryden (1631-1700)
A Song ("Farwell ungratefull Traytor")
Song ("Ah how sweet it is to love")
Song ("I feed a flame within")
Song ("Whilst Alexis lay prest")
The Tears of Amynta, for the Death of Damon

Katherine, Lady Dyer (fl. 1630-)
Epitaph on Sir William Dyer

Bob Dylan (1941-)
Shelter from the storm

E

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
A Dedication to my Wife

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Give All to Love

Sir George Etherege (c. 1636-1692)
The Imperfect Enjoyment

F

Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666)
Of Beauty

John Fletcher (1579-1625)
A Song by the Novice
Now the lusty Spring is seen
Song ("How long shall I pine for love?")
Song ("Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below")
The Song ("Away delights, go seek some other dwelling")
To the blest Evanthe

G

John Gay (1685-1732)
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan
Youth's the season made for joys

Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774)
When lovely woman stoops to folly

George Granville, Lord Lansdowne (1667-1735)
Cloe
Love

Robert Graves (1895-1985)
Counting the Beats
Down, Wanton, Down!
How Can I Care?
Love Without Hope
She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep
Sick Love
Symptoms of Love

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628)
Absence
Farewell sweet Boy
I with whose colors Myra drest her head
Loue is the Peace, whereto all thoughts doe striue

H

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
A Broken Appointment
After a Journey
At Castle Boterel
In Time of "the Breaking of Nations"
I Said to Love
The Ballad-Singer
The End of the Episode
The Voice
To Lizbie Browne

Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648)
Elegy over a Tomb

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Corinna's going a Maying
Delight in Disorder
Love what it is
The Night-piece, to Julia
The Vine
To Anthea, who may command him any thing
To the Virgins, to make much of Time
Upon Julia's Clothes
Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast
Where love begins, there dead thy first desire

A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
Because I liked you better
Ho, everyone that thirsteth
Oh, when I was in love with you
The rainy Pleiads wester
When I was one-and-twenty
With rue my heart is laden

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
Alas so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace
O happy dames
The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
Rondeau

I

J

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short
Her Triumph
It was a beauty that I saw
My Picture left in Scotland
Song ("Still to be neat, still to be drest")
Song. To CELIA ("Come my CELIA, let vs proue")
Song. To CELIA ("Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes")
The Houre-glasse

K

John Keats (1795-1821)
And what is Love?
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
I cry your mercy — pity — love! — aye, love
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
O blush not so!
This living hand, now warm and capable
Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb

Henry King (1592-1669)
An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind
Sonnet ("Tell mee no more how faire shee is")
The Farwell
The Surrender

Sir Francis Kynaston (1587-1642)
To Cynthia. On concealement of her beauty

L

Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
My heart's fit to break

Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847)
What is Love?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
A Poet's Love

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
Love and Age
Mother, I cannot mind my wheel
My hopes retire
O fond, but fickle and untrue
Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives
Proud word you never spoke
Rose Aylmer
The torch of Love dispels the gloom
Twenty years hence
What News
You smiled, you spoke, and I believed

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Frohnleichnam
Gloire de Dijon
Green
New Year's Eve
Song of a Man Who is Loved
The Mess of Love

Edward Lear (1812-1888)
There was an Old Man on some rocks
There was a Young Lady

John Lilliat (c. 1550-1599)
When love on time and measure makes his ground

Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)
Loue in my bosome like a Bee

Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
The Scrutinie
To Althea, From Prison
To Lucasta, Going beyond the Seas
To Lucasta, Going to the Warres

John Lyly (c. 1554-1606)
Cupid and my Campaspe playd

M

Patrick MacDonogh (1902-1961)
She Walked Unaware

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
It lies not in our power to love, or hate
The passionate Sheepheard to his loue
Was this the face that lancht a thousand shippes?

Philip Bourke Marston (1850-1887)
After

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
The Definition of Love
The Fair Singer
The Mower to the Glo-Worms
To his Coy Mistress

Robert Merry (1755-1798)
The Adieu and Recall to Love

Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
Renouncement

Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why

John Milton (1608-1674)
Methought I saw my late espoused Saint
With thee conversing I forget all time

Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1545-1598)
A Description of Tyme

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
At the mid hour of night
An Argument
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
Thee, thee, only thee
The time I've lost in wooing

Heinrich von Morungen (c. 1150-1222)
The Wound of Love

N

O

P

Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
A Farewell
The Kiss
The Revelation

Francis Petrarch (1304-1374)
Clear, cool, sweet, running waters
Go now, my grieving verse
I find no peace, and I am not at war
Love, that doth reign and live within my thought

Katherine Philips (1632-1664)
To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship

Plato (c. 429-347 BC)
I am an apple
You gaze at the stars, my Star

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
A Dream within a Dream
Annabel Lee
The Raven
To F——
To Helen
To One in Paradise

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Two or Three; or A Receipt to make a Cuckold

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
A True Maid

Q

R

Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618)
A Farewell to false Loue
As you came from the holy land
Like to a Hermite poore
The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
A Birthday
Echo
I wish I could remember that first day
Lady Montrevor
May
Mirage
Remember
Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Severed Selves
Silent Noon
Sudden Light
The Blessed Damozel
Without Her

Jalâlu'l-Dîn Rûmî (1207-1273)
'Tis heart-ache lays the lover's passion bare
You and I

S

Sappho (fl. 600 BC)
Like the very gods in my sight is he

Alexander Scott (c. 1515-1583)
A Rondel of Love
To luve unluvit it is ane pane

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
An Hour with Thee

Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
On Fruition
On the Happy Corydon and Phillis
Song ("Love still has something of the Sea")
Song ("Not Celia, that I juster am")
Song ("Phillis, let's shun the common Fate")
To Cloris

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
But loue, first learned in a Ladies eyes
Come away, come away death
It was a louer, and his lasse
O Mistris mine where are you roming?
O she doth teach the Torches to burne bright
Sonnet 15 ("When I consider euery thing that growes")
Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a Summers day?")
Sonnet 19 ("Deuouring time, blunt thou the Lyons pawes")
Sonnet 30 ("When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought")
Sonnet 36 ("Let me confesse that we two must be twaine")
Sonnet 55 ("Not marble, nor the guilded monuments")
Sonnet 65 ("Since brasse, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundlesse sea")
Sonnet 71 ("Noe Longer mourne for me when I am dead")
Sonnet 73 ("That time of yeeare thou maist in me behold")
Sonnet 87 ("Farewell, thou art too deare for my possessing")
Sonnet 97 ("How like a Winter hath my absence beene")
Sonnet 98 ("From you haue I beene absent in the spring")
Sonnet 106 ("When in the Chronicle of wasted time")
Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true mindes")
Sonnet 129 ("Th'expence of Spirit in a waste of shame")
Sonnet 130 ("My Mistres eyes are nothing like the Sunne")
Sonnet 147 ("My loue is as a feauer, longing still")
So sweete a kisse the golden Sunne giues not
Take, oh take those lips away

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
For she was beautiful
Love's Philosophy
One word is too often profaned
The Indian Girl's Song
To —— ("Music, when soft voices die")
To Jane

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Because I breathe not love to everie one
Come sleepe, ô sleepe, the certaine knot of peace
In nature apt to like when I did see
Leave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust
Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show
My true love hath my hart, and I have his
O my thoughtes' sweete foode, my my onely owner
Onely joy, now here you are
Ring out your belles
Some Lovers speake when they their Muses entertaine
The Epitaph
When sorrow (using mine owne fier's might)
Who is it that this darke night
With how sad steps, ô Moone, thou climb'st the skies
Yee Gote-heard Gods

Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester (1563-1626)
Yow that take pleasure in yowr cruelty

Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
Pad, Pad

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Ah see, who so faire thing doest faine to see
Comming to kisse her lyps
Epithalamion
Fresh spring the herald of loues mighty king
Happy ye leaues when as those lilly hands
Iambicum Trimetrum
Lyke as the Culuer on the bared bough
Most glorious Lord of lyfe
My hungry eyes, through greedy couetize
Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay
One day I wrote her name vpon the strand
The souerayne beauty which I doo admyre

William Strode (1600-1643)
Song ("I saw faire Cloris walke alone")

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
Loving and Beloved
Out upon it
Song ("Why so pale and wan fond Lover?")

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
On Stella's Birthday

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
A Leave-Taking

T

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height
Come not, when I am dead
Fatima
In the Valley of Cauteretz
Now sleeps the crimson petal
Oh! that 'twere possible
There has fallen a splendid tear

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Sorrows of Werther

Edward Thomas (1887-1917)
"Go now"
The Unknown

George Turbervile (c. 1544-1597)
To his Love that sent him a Ring wherein was gravde, Let Reason rule

U

V

Thomas, Lord Vaux (1510-1556)
The aged louer renounceth loue

W

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
On a girdle
Song ("Go lovely Rose")

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
As If a Phantom Caress'd Me
From Pent-up Aching Rivers
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
Sometimes with One I Love
When I Heard at the Close of the Day

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
Song ("Absent from thee I languish still")
Song. A Young Lady to her Antient Lover
Love and Life
The Imperfect Enjoyment
Upon his leaving his Mistresse
Verses put into a Lady's Prayer-book

George Wither (1588-1667)
A Love Sonnet
Shall I wasting in Dispaire

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
She was a Phantom of delight
Song ("She dwelt among th' untrodden ways")
Strange fits of passion I have known
Surprized by joy — impatient as the Wind
Three years she grew in sun and shower

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
On his Mistris, the Queen of Bohemia
Upon the death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife

Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1586-1651)
A crowne of Sonetts dedicated to Love
Song ("Love a child is ever criing")

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42)
And wylt thow leve me thus?
Ffarewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever
Fforget not yet
My lute, awake!
Ons as me thought fortune me kyst
Payne of all payne, the most grevous paine
Quondam was I in my Ladys gras
They fle from me that sometyme did me seke
What menythe thys when I lye alone?
What shulde I saye
When first mine eyes did view
Whoso list to hounte I know where is an hynde
Wythe seruyng styll

X

Y

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
A Deep-sworn Vow
A Drinking Song
A Last Confession
Brown Penny
Down by the Salley Gardens
Her Anxiety
He thinks of Those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Never give all the Heart
No Second Troy
O do not Love Too Long
The Falling of the Leaves
The Folly of being Comforted
The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love
The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart
The Ragged Wood
The Rose of the World
The Sorrow of Love
When You are Old

Z