The 100 best love poems of all time / edited by Leslie Pockell ; with Adrienne Avila and Katharine Rapkin.

Introduction
La vita nuova / Dante Alighieri
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Howard Moss
Who ever loved / Christopher Marlowe
from Paradise Lost / John Milton
To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe
A red, red rose / Robert Burns
She tells her love while half asleep / Robert Graves
Last night you left me and slept / Rumi
I prithee send me back my heart / Sir John Suckling
I carry your heart with me / E.E. Cummings
The avenue / Frances Cornford
The bargain / Sir Philip Sidney
The mirabeau bridge / Guillaume Apollinaire
To the bridge of love / Juan Ramon Jimenez
She walks in beauty / Lord Byron
The ragged wood / William Butler Yeats.

Night thoughts / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The gardener / Rabindranath Tagore
To the harbormaster / Frank O'Hara
To a stranger / Walt Whitman
True love / Judith Viorst
Love 20 cents the first quarter mile / Kenneth Fearing
Jenny kiss'd me / Leigh Hunt
Juliet / Hilaire Belloc
Song to Celia / Ben Jonson
Your catfish friend / Richard Brautigan
The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear
Love song to Alex, 1979 / Margaret Walker
When Sue wears red / Langston Hughes
Those who love / Sara Teasdale
Reprise / Ogden Nash
One word is too often profaned / Percy Bysshe Shelley
I do not love you / Pablo Neruda
Gifts / Juliana Horatia Ewing.

At last / Elizabeth Akers Allen
To Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein
Valentine / Donald Hall
Love's secret / William Blake
I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke
Love for a hand / Karl Shapiro
It is the third watch / Anonymous
The enchantment / Thomas Otway
The silken tent / Robert Frost
Love song / William Carlos Williams
Wild nights! / Emily Dickinson
She comes not when noon is on the roses / Herbert Trench
Between your sheets / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The jewels / Charles Baudelaire
Songs to Lesbia / Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus)
The vine / James Thomson
from The song of songs / Anonymous (attributed to King Solomon)
Confession / Frantisek Halas
I loved you / Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
from Merciless beauty / Geoffrey Chaucer
He is more than a hero / Sappho
To his mistress / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.

To little or no purpose / Sir George Etherege
Touch / Ocatvio Paz
Lady love / Samuel Beckett
Love poem / Gregory Orr
I want to breathe / James Laughlin
A statue of Eros / Zenodotos
Come quickly / Izumi Shikibu
Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare
Habitation / Margaret Atwood
September / Ted Hughes
Love letter / Sylvia Plath
Marriage morning / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet
Fulfillment / William Cavendish
How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Meeting at night / Robert Browning
Sonnett XXX / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Camomile tea / Katherine Mansfield
Decade / Amy Lowell
Wear me / Robert Kogan
The marriage / Yvor Winters
Married love / Tao-sheng
The river merchant's wife / Li Po
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell
Nothing twice / Wislawa Szymborska
Strawberries / Edwin Morgan.

True love / Robert Penn Warren
When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman
Thunderstorm in town / Thomas Hardy
On the balcony / D.H. Lawrence
Love song / Rainer Maria Rilke
Moonlit night / Tu Fu
Sonnet of sweet complaint / Federico Garcia Lorca
Since there's no help / Michael Drayton
Love arm'd / Aphra Behn
The lost love / William Wordsworth
Echo / Christina Rossetti
Reminiscence / Anne Bronte
For Jane / Charles Bukowski
Funeral blues / W.H. Auden
Vino tinto / Sandra Cisneros
One art / Elizabeth Bishop
To Fanny Brawne / John Keats
A valediction forbidding mourning / John Donne.