Little Treasury of Love Poems

J. A. Holmes

Simon & Schuster (T), 1975

Contents

• SONG: 7
• WISHES FOR THE SUPPOSED MISTRESS Richard Crashaw: 13
• HOW DO I LOVE THEE? Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 19
• BY FIAT OF ADORATION: 27
• MENDACITY: 33
• IF THIS BE LOVE: 39
• 888织织 89: 45
• George Meredith: 51
• LOVE IS ENOUGH: 57
• COMPARE THEE? William Shakespeare: 63
• KAROLINS SONG: 69
• THE QUARREL: 75
• TO HELEN: 81
• MY LOVE SHES BUT A LASSIE YET James Hogg: 88
• THE UNFADING BEAUTY Thomas Carew: 92
• TO YOU TO YOU Sir Philip Sidney: 98
• WHAT GUILE IS THIS? Edmund Spenser: 104
• WHENAS IN SILKS Robert Herrick: 110
• KISSING Lord Herbert of Cherbury: 116
• THE SUN RISING John Donne: 125
• THE MOWERS SONG Andrew Marvell: 131
• DOVER BEACH Matthew Arnold: 137
• THE FLOWER John Holmes: 144
• LOVE WILL FIND OUT THE WAY Anonymous: 150
• THE DANCE George Mason and John Earsden: 155
• CLAIMING A SECOND KISS BY DESERT Ben Jonson: 161
• CASTARA William Habington: 167
• MAKE HASTE SWEET LOVE Edmund Spenser: 173
• LOVES PHILOSOPHY Percy Bysshe Shelley: 179
• FAIR SWEET AND YOUNG John Dryden: 185
• H Lawrence: 196
• THE LUMBERYARD Ruth Herschberger: 203
• A STOLEN KISS George Wither: 210
• SONG Sir Richard Steele: 216
• SONG Anonymous: 222
• WHY SO PALE AND WAN Sir John Suckling: 225
• FALSE LOVE Robert Burns: 231
• GIVE ALL TO LOVE Ralph Waldo Emerson: 237
• SONG Sir George Etherege: 243
• INCONSTANCY REPROVED Sir Robert Ayton: 249
• IF WOMEN WOULD BE FAIR Edward De Vere: 255
• EVE OF ST AGNES John Keats: 259
• FAIR PHYLLIS Ben Jonson: 271
• TWA CORBIES Anonymous: 277
• BONNY BARBARA ALLEN Anonymous: 283
• PURITANS BALLAD Elinor Wylie: 290
• THE THREE BUSHES William Butler Yeats: 297
• THE HAYSTACK IN THE FLOODS William Morris: 304
• WHEN LOVELY WOMAN Oliver Goldsmith: 319
• WHEN YOU ARE OLD William Butler Yeats: 325
• IT IS NOT BEAUTY I DEMAND George Darley: 330
• THE SOLITARY REAPER William Wordsworth: 331
• LOVED THEE Thomas Stanley: 333
• DEAR WHY SHOULD: 339
• SWEETEST LOVE I DO NOT GO John Donne: 346
• THE LOVER SENDETH SIGHS Sir Thomas Wyatt: 352
• ARCITES FAREWELL Geoffrey Chaucer: 358
• A SONG TO AMORET Henry Vaughan: 365
• SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT William Wordsworth: 366
• PROTHALAMION Edmund Spenser 375: 394
• Loves Elegies: 407
• THE FUNERAL John Donne: 420
• THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE William Shakespeare: 422
• AN EPITAPH ON A HUSBAND AND WIFE: 428
• THERE IS A LADY SWEET AND KIND Anonymous: 434
• TO LUCASTA GOING BEYOND THE SEAS Richard Lovelace: 440
• IF THOU MUST LOVE ME Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 446
• AULD LANG SYNE: 453
• FLOW GENTLY SWEET AFTON: 459
• SALLY IN OUR ALLEY: 465
• A LOVE SONNET: 471
• O THAT: 478
• SONG Matthew Prior: 480
• CARDS AND KISSES: 484
• TO A LADY Matthew Prior: 489
• MAN MAN MAN Anonymous: 495
• INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES: 513
• 56: 522

Bibliographic information

• Title: Little Treasury of Love Poems
• Author: J. A. Holmes
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (T), 1975
• ISBN: 0684102641, 9780684102641