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POETRY COLLECTION Love Poems

Love Poems

Sappho, Shakespeare, Burns, Byron, Browning, Yeats and more · 15 poems · 29 pages · free to read · for teens and adults

Love poems across 2,600 years, from Sappho’s Lesbos to Yeats’s Ireland.

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Contents

  1. Will not men remember us Sappho (open in book)
  2. Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? William Shakespeare (open in book)
  3. Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds William Shakespeare (open in book)
  4. A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns (open in book)
  5. She Walks in Beauty Lord Byron (open in book)
  6. Sonnet 43: How do I love thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning (open in book)
  7. Love’s Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley (open in book)
  8. Bright Star John Keats (open in book)
  9. When You Are Old W. B. Yeats (open in book)
  10. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W. B. Yeats (open in book)
  11. The Look Sara Teasdale (open in book)
  12. Gifts Sara Teasdale (open in book)
  13. Thou and I Rumi (open in book)
  14. The Gardener 30: You are the evening cloud Rabindranath Tagore (open in book)
  15. Soft was the wind in the beech-trees Sappho (open in book)

Sources

Poets in this book

Sapphoc. 630 BC–c. 570 BC · Ancient Greece (Lesbos)Read the bookWilliam Shakespeare1564–1616 · EnglandRead the bookRobert Burns1759–1796 · ScotlandRead the bookLord Byron1788–1824 · EnglandRead the bookElizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861 · EnglandPoemsPercy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822 · EnglandRead the bookJohn Keats1795–1821 · EnglandRead the bookW. B. Yeats1865–1939 · IrelandRead the bookSara Teasdale1884–1933 · United StatesRead the bookRumi1207–1273 · Persia / AnatoliaRead the bookRabindranath Tagore1861–1941 · India (Bengal)Read the book

The poems in this collection are in the public domain. This is a reading edition, not a Pagine Original.

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