When you’ve wearied of my doggerel, feast your mind on some choice confections selected from the wide world of poetry.
Dante Alighieri: La Vita Nuova
Charles Baudelaire: Le Balcon
Rupert Brooke: The Great Lover
Lord Byron: She Walks In Beauty
Auretha Callison: Adore
Hilda Carroll: Skin to Skin
Kelly Cherry: The Rainment We Put On
Lucille Clifton: To A Dark Moses
Paul Curtis: Love At Its Zenith
Veronica Franco: A Courtesan’s Love Lyric
Kalil Gibran: Beauty XXV
Tony Harmon: The Whisperings On Val’eve
Robinson Jeffers: To Helen, About Her Hair
James Joyce: yes I said yes I will Yes
Ella Kay: Claim Me
John Keats: Give me women, wine, and snuff
Omar Khayyam: Come, fill the cup
Amy Lowell: A Winter Ride
Richard Lovelace: Song To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair
Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
Tom Merrill: Time In Eternity
George Moore: Let Me Lie
Leonard Nimoy: A silence with you
Sharon Olds: The Knowing
Kenneth Patchen: As we are so wonderfully done with each other
Paulos: Our Kisses
Theodore Roethke: I Knew A Woman
Matthew Rohrer: Credo
Carl Sandburg: Happiness
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Love’s Philosophy
Solomon: Song of Songs
Algernon Charles Swinburne: Love and Sleep
C. Wadsworth: Desire
William Carlos Williams: Arrival
William Butler Yeats: A Drinking Song
Fiona Zion: True Love