Great Love Poems - Группа авторов
| Автор: | Группа авторов |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
| Серия: | Dover Thrift Editions |
| Жанр произведения: | Языкознание |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9780486111520 |
Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they never dreamThat it fades out from kiss to kiss;For everything that's lovely isBut a brief, dreamy, kind delight. — W. B. YeatsDown 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.