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Author: A.L. Alexander
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2012-02-08
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 0307489620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith over 650,000 copies in print, Poems That Touch The Heart is America's most popular collection of inspirational verse.
Author: Alex Dimitrov
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 161932234X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure—specifically, the twelve months of the year—Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.” Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.
Author: James Fenton
Publisher: Faber & Faber Poetry
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780571218158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The New Faber Book of Love Poems' presents some of the most emotive and memorable lyric poems produced in the English language from the Renaissance to the present.
Author: Jonathan Wordsworth
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-05-26
Total Pages: 1048
ISBN-13: 0141905654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.
Author: June Jordan
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 2023-01-26
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1800814828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko traces the faltering arc of a passionate love affair with another woman while Love Poems encompasses relationships with men and women, political resistance, the need for self-care in a demanding, uncaring world and apocalyptic visions of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. A contemporary of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, June Jordan's spectacular poetry remains profoundly politically potent, lyrically inventive and breathtakingly romantic. First published in 1994, Haruko/ Love poems is a vitally important modern classic.
Author: Diana L. Burgin
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1994-07
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0814711901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow doesn't have them--and that's marvellous." —Anton Chekhov, writing to his publisher in 1895 Chekhov's barbed comment suggests the climate in which Sophia Parnok was writing, and is an added testament to to the strength and confidence with which she pursued both her personal and artistic life. Author of five volumes of poetry, and lover of Marina Tsvetaeva, Sophia Parnok was the only openly lesbian voice in Russian poetry during the Silver Age of Russian letters. Despite her unique contribution to modern Russian lyricism however, Parnok's life and work have essentially been forgotten. Parnok was not a political activist, and she had no engagement with the feminism vogueish in young Russian intellectual circles. From a young age, however, she deplored all forms of male posturing and condescension and felt alienated from what she called patriarchal virtues. Parnok's approach to her sexuality was equally forthright. Accepting lesbianism as her natural disposition, Parnok acknowledged her relationships with women, both sexual and non-sexual, to be the centre of her creative existence. Diana Burgin's extensively researched life of Parnok is deliberately woven around the poet's own account, visible in her writings. The book is divided into seven chapters, which reflect seven natural divisions in Parnok's life. This lends Burgin's work a particular poetic resonance, owing to its structural affinity with one of Parnok's last and greatest poetic achievements, the cycle of love lyrics Ursa Major. Dedicated to her last lover, Parnok refers to this cycle as a seven-star of verses, after the seven stars that make up the constellation. Parnok's poems, translated here for the first time in English, added to a wealth of biographical material, make this book a fascinating and lyrical account of an important Russian poet. Burgin's work is essential reading for students of Russian literature, lesbian history and women's studies.
Author: Shane Weller
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1992-10-08
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0486272842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNever give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. — W. B. Yeats Down through the millennia the emotion of love has inspired countless poets to great heights of lyrical expression. In this volume readers can sample more than 150 great love poems by English and American poets. Spanning over four centuries of literary creation in the service of amour, the works include a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets, John Donne's "The Ecstasy," William Blake's "The Garden of Love," Robert Burns's "The Banks o'Doon" and "John Anderson My Jo," Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee," Robert Browning's "Meeting at Night," as well as works by W. B. Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling, Matthew Arnold, A. E. Housman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Robert Frost. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Sonnet 73" and "Song."
Author: John Kenney
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0593190696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people. With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children such hits, John Kenney is back with a brand new collection of poems, this time taking on one of the most common feelings in our day-and-age: anxiety. Kenney covers it all, from awkward social interactions and insomnia to nervous ticks and writing and rewriting that email.
Author: Peter Washington
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 1993-11-02
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0679429069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of the human soul. Includes poems by John Donne, Christina Rossetti, W. H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Graves, e. e. cummings, Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, Sappho, Bhartrhari, Anna Akhmatova, and W. B. Yeats, among many others.
Author: Emily Browning
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2012-10-03
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781480053496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether you're looking for the right words to send that special person, or the right words to say on Facebook, there's nothing better than a good romantic poem. This is a collection of some of the best romantic poems, from some of the world's greatest poets. In just a few words, a romantic poet tells a story that would otherwise require a full length book. Take for example the poem 'Hot and Cold' by Roald Dahl: A woman who my mother knows Came in and took off all her clothes. Said I, not being very old, 'By golly gosh, you must be cold!' 'No, no!' she cried. 'Indeed I'm not! I'm feeling devilishly hot!' These 38 words generate full length stories within the mind of each reader. A romantic poem touches the heart in a way that mere prose never could. A romantic poem is what you send when you want something priceless for your partner, or potential partner. Within the pages of this book, you'll find a romantic poem for any occasion, a wedding, a new love, an anniversary, a lost love, or even for a naughty night. Includes poems by: Edwin Arnold W.H. Auden Waitman Barbe Stephen Vincent Benet Francis W. Bourdillon Anne Bradstreet Christopher Brennan Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Robert Burns Lord Byron William Cartwright Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emily Dickinson Paul Laurence Dunbar Anne Finch Robert Frost Kahlil Gibran John Keats Walter Savage Landor Richard Lovelace Samuel Lover George Lyttelton Edward Bulwer-Lytton Christopher Marlowe JB O'Reilly Li Po Edgar Allen Poe Adelaide Anne Procter Aleksandr Pushkin Helen Steiner Rice Theodore Roethke Dante Rosetti Lady John Scott William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley Sir Philip Sidney Charles Swain Kuan Tao-Sheng Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sara Teasdale Walt Whitman Oscar Wilde William Wordsworth William Butler Yeats
