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Penguin's Poems for Love

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by Laura Barber

‘Love is a sickness full of woes’ 67

  ‘Love is like’ 178

  ‘Love is like a lamb, and love is like a lion’ 178

  Love Letter 8

  Love on the Farm 245

  Love Song (for Anna) 193

  Lovesong 247

  ‘Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show’ 43

  Lullaby 126

  Mariana 80

  Marriage, A 329

  Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn, The 209

  ‘Masons, when they start upon a building’ 219

  Maundy Thursday 31

  ‘may i feel said he’ 227

  ‘Maybe we knew each other better’ 190

  ‘meet me’ 106

  Meeting, The 263

  Merchant of Venice, The 99

  Merciles Beaute 322

  ‘Methought I saw my late espousèd saint’ 333

  Midsummer Night’s Dream, A 177

  Modern Love 239, 258

  Morning After 135

  ‘Morning and evening’ 147

  Muse 122

  ‘Music, when soft voices die’ 330

  My Belovèd Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout 153

  ‘My beloved is white and ruddy’ 95

  ‘My foundling, my fondling, my frolic first-footer’ 175

  ‘My life closed twice before its close – ’ 262

  ‘My love is as a fever, longing still’ 72

  ‘My love is faren in a land’ 184

  ‘My love is like to ice, and I to fire’ 56

  ‘My love is of a birth as rare’ 187

  ‘My love, my saving grace’ 138

  ‘My luve is like a red, red rose’ 180

  ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun’ 92

  ‘My need has frayed with time; you said it would’ 295

  ‘My once dear Love! hapless that I no more’ 265

  ‘My window, framed in pear-tree bloom’ 319

  Natural History 181

  Needle on Zero 271

  Neutral Tones 254

  ‘Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress’ 28

  ‘Night slips, trailing behind it’ 235

  ‘No smoke without you, my fire’ 182

  ‘Not easy to state the change you made’ 8

  Not to Sleep 86

  Nothing On 158

  Now 117

  ‘Now, Sleep, bind fast the flood of air’ 208

  ‘O Love! that stronger art than wine’ 156

  ‘O luely, luely cam she in’ 281

  ‘O Rose thou art sick’ 29

  ‘O sweet delight, O more than human bliss’ 166

  ‘O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms’ 69

  ‘O you’ 239

  ‘Oh, when I was in love with you’ 321

  ‘On either side the river lie’ 309

  On Spadina Avenue 74

  On Taking a Wife 226

  ‘On the banks of the Severn, a desperate maid’ 316

  ‘On the third night in the bridal suite’ 276

  On Whitsunday morning 68

  One Art 267

  One Cigarette 182

  ‘One day I wrote her name upon the strand’ 343

  Orpheus in Soho 251

  Othello 301

  Other Two, The 256

  ‘Our breath shall intermix, our bosoms bound’ 123

  ‘Out of your whole life give but a moment!’ 117

  Paradise Lost 12, 165, 216

  Parlour Game 217

  Passion 124

  Patagonia 210

  Pentecost 125

  Piazza Piece 60

  Planter’s Daughter, The 97

  Porphyria’s Lover 302

  Possibly 130

  ‘Pray but one prayer for me ‘twixt thy closed lips’ 330

  Present, The 209

  Progress Report 295

  Pygmaleon 6

  Rape of the Lock, The 242

  Rapture, A 107

  Recension Day 297

  Red, Red Rose, A 180

  Reincarnations 332

  Remedia Amoris 76

  Renewal, A 268

  Renouncement 269

  Reprise 100

  Rhetorical Questions 121

  Romeo and Juliet 45, 133, 153

  Rooms 255

  ‘Sad how’ 135

  ‘Say that some lady, as perhaps there is’ 26

  Scaffolding 219

  ‘See the chariot at hand here of Love’ 94

  ‘Seeing as yet nothing is really well enough arranged’ 198

  ‘She gives him his eyes, she found them’ 214

  ‘She loves him, she loves him not, she is confused’ 42

  ‘She said, If tomorrow my world were torn in two’ 221

  ‘She swoons, falls into his arms’ 48

  She Walks in Beauty 96

  ‘She wore a new ‘terra-cotta’ dress’ 37

  Shortest and Sweetest of Songs, The 194

  Shropshire Lad, A 321

  Sick Rose, The 29

  Silent Noon 160

  ‘Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat’ 322

  ‘Since I noo mwore do zee your feäce’ 335

  ‘Since thou hast view’d some Gorgon, and art grown’ 320

  ‘So are you to my thoughts as food to life’ 142

  ‘So close the ground, and ’bout her shade’ 339

  ‘So, I shall see her in three days’ 85

  ‘So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss’ 266

  ‘So the light falls, and so it fell’ 296

  Solitude 252

  ‘Someone is falling towards you’ 89

  ‘somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond’ 98

  ‘Somewhere, on the other side of this wide night’ 190

  ‘Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours’ 197

  ‘Somewhere this dusk’ 54

  Song, A (Egerton) 32

  Song (Behn) 156

  Song (Dryden) 36

  Song (Waller) 78

  Song of Solomon 95

  Song of Wandering Aengus, The 57

  Sonnet (Oswald) 53

  Sonnet 75 (Shakespeare) 142

  Sonnet 129 (Shakespeare) 137

  Sonnet 130 (Shakespeare) 92

  Sonnet 147 (Shakespeare) 72

  Sonnets from the Portuguese 18, 159, 344

  Sous-entendu 111

  ‘Stand on the highest pavement of the stair – ’ 292

  Stealing Up 44

  Strawberries 144

  ‘Stay near to me and I’ll stay near to you – ’ 205

  Summer Dawn 330

  Summer with Monika 170

  Sun has burst the sky, The 22

  Sun Rising, The 131

  Sunset II 342

  ‘Sunset, now that we’re finally in it’ 342

  Surrender, The 265

  Symptom Recital 66

  Talking in Bed 134

  ‘Ten years together without yet a cloud’ 233

  ‘That day I oft remember, when from sleep’ 12

  ‘That farewell voice of love is never heard again’ 289

  ‘That time I thought I was in love’ 323

  ‘The art of losing isn’t hard to master’ 267

  ‘The day he moved out was terrible – ’ 318

  ‘The end of love should be a big event’ 274

  ‘The expense of spirit in a waste of shame’ 137

  ‘The goddess Fortune be praised (on her toothed wheel’ 140

  ‘The highway is full of big cars’ 102

  ‘The honey fee of parting tendered is’ 240

  ‘The kitten that befriends me at its gate’ 332

  ‘The little river twittering in the twilight’ 73

  ‘The love we thought would never stop’ 250

  ‘The moon shines bright. In such a night as this’ 99

  ‘The myrtle bush grew shady’ 232

  ‘The neighbours hammered on the walls all night’ 125

  ‘The pulsing stops where time has been’ 124
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  ‘The rain set early in tonight’ 302

  ‘The second before and the eternity after’ 5

  ‘The sun has burst the sky’ 22

  ‘The spider, dropping down from twig’ 181

  ‘The things about you I appreciate’ 161

  ‘The time will come’ 325

  ‘The unexpected interest made him flush’ 14

  ‘The unexpected power cut left the clocks’ 271

  ‘The violence is over. They lie apart’ 124

  ‘The water is wide, I can’t swim o’er’ 283

  ‘The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees’ 304

  ‘Their relationship consisted’ 47

  ‘There is a flower I wish to wear’ 76

  ‘There is a kind of love called maintenance’ 220

  ‘There is the loneliness of peopled places’ 252

  ‘There were never strawberries’ 144

  ‘they say the sun shone now and again’ 170

  ‘They’re at that stage where so much desire streams between’ 212

  Things That Could Happen 48

  ‘Thinking of new ways to kill you’ 315

  Three Weeks 84

  ‘Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air’ 58

  Thunderstorm in Town, A 37

  ‘Thus Eve with count’nance blithe her story told’ 216

  Timing 52

  ‘ ’Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of’ 177

  ‘ ’Tis true, fair Celia, that by thee I live’ 104

  To ––– (Moore) 250

  To Fanny 103

  To Marguerite – Continued 186

  To Mary 183

  To One That Asked Me Why I Loved J. G. 62

  ‘To touch was an accord’ 4

  ‘to wake and find you sitting up in bed’ 130

  ‘To-day there have been lovely things’ 20

  Trilogy for X: II 132

  Truce 248

  True Love 222

  Tryst (Greenlaw) 235

  Tryst, The (Soutar) 281

  Trysts (Robertson) 106

  Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge, The 157

  ‘ ’Twas midnight – Donna Julia was in bed’ 229

  Twelfth Night 26

  ‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’ 189

  Twilight Night, II 83

  ‘Unburn the boat, rebuild the bridge’ 297

  Unpredicted, The 140

  Upon Julia’s Clothes 111

  Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife 300

  Valentine 161

  Venus and Adonis 240

  Vicar of Wakefield, The 308

  Villanelle 293

  Villeggiature 319

  Vision 20

  Voice, The 331

  ‘Walking swiftly with a dreadful duchess’ 61

  Warming Her Pearls 28

  ‘Was it a dream, or did I see it plain’ 143

  Water is Wide, The 283

  ‘We don’t fall in love, it rises through us’ 236

  ‘We first recognised each other as if we were siblings’ 328

  ‘We met’ 329

  ‘We now mid hope vor better cheer’ 218

  ‘We started speaking – ’ 263

  ‘We stood by a pond that winter day’ 254

  ‘We were sitting there’ 217

  Wedding 201

  ‘Were I as base as is the lowly plain’ 206

  ‘Westron wind, when will thou blow’ 184

  ‘What I get I bring home to you’ 145

  ‘What large, dark hands are those at the window’ 245

  What Love Is Like 178

  ‘When a Man has Married a Wife’ 215

  ‘When as in silks my Julia goes’ 111

  ‘When I am sad and weary’ 166

  When I Heard at the Close of the Day 167

  ‘When I kiss you in all the folding places’ 122

  ‘When I loved you, I can’t but allow’ 250

  ‘When I too long have looked upon your face’ 286

  ‘When in the heat of the first night of summer’ 153

  ‘When lovely woman stoops to folly’ 308

  ‘When night stirred at sea’ 97

  ‘When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart’ 15

  ‘When she rises in the morning’ 139

  ‘When the lamp is shattered’ 253

  ‘When to my deadly pleasure’ 173

  ‘When you were lying on the white sand’ 282

  ‘Where my heart is (wherever that may be)’ 83

  ‘Who has not seen their lover’ 194

  ‘Why do I love? go ask the glorious sun’ 62

  Wife a-Lost, The 335

  Wild Strawberries 145

  Will You Come? 114

  ‘Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day’ 133

  ‘With blackest moss the flower-plots’ 80

  ‘With thee conversing I forget all time’ 165

  ‘With you first shown to me’ 19

  ‘Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me’ 331

  Words, Wide Night 190

  Would I Were Changed 110

  ‘Would ye have fresh Cheese and Cream?’ 143

  Wreck, The 259

  ‘Yes! in the sea of life enisled’ 186

  ‘Yes, we were looking at each other’ 213

  ‘Yet each man kills the thing he loves’ 300

  ‘You bear the hatchet’ 248

  ‘You did not come’ 59

  ‘You glow in my heart’ 56

  You, Me and the Orang-utan 228

  ‘Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass – ’ 160

  ‘You’ve just shaved and you smell of cream’ 140

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