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One Hundred and One Classic Love Poems

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Highly recommended for any true poet or poetry fan. The collection of poetry in this book is sure to please anyone. Not too feminine or masculine, there is something for everyone. It features well knonw classics, read in your high school English classes, and some lesser known ones. Inspires you, Seduces you and makes you feel all warm and tingly.

From sonnets of undescribable beauty to free verse of pure ethereal spirit, 101 Classic Love Poems is a must for each aspiring Romeo. It is essential for those of us who would like to put into words the feelings of our soul.

This anthology is alluring in every way. Each poem has a distinctive effect, especially when they are read aloud. This book is most enchanting when read from cover to cover. There are nuances in each poem that mingle with the romantic sensibilities. Even though the poems are aged and classic, the collection seems fresh and untouched. It is truly a remarkable anthology, and necessary for anyone with even the smallest amount of tenderness. Passionately reccomended.

This is a charming and delightful collection of love poetry. Some of the best known poems you remember from English Class and some others you may never have read. No matter the reason, you will enjoy this book.

Also Recommended: Quotes, Poems, and Words That Flow by Kevin Grommersch (contains some of my favorite love poems).

I bought this a year ago and have read from it many times. This is a great compilation of the classics, just look at the table of contents. It makes a great gift for a couple or lover.

I've read many of these poems to my girlfriend on the phone and she loves them, but then again she is a hopeless romantic. If you love poetry and you are a hopelss romantic, I would recommend this book of poetry.

If you enjoy a collection of poems featuring Shakespeare, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson and Thomas Moore, then many of these poems may already be very familiar. There is comfort in reading familiar poems and yet I'm always eager to find new poems.

Patterns by Amy Lowell is a completely new poem to me and the descriptions of ribboned shoes, lime trees and daffodils invited me to read this poem more than once. What is truly stunning about this particular poem is the way in which Amy Lowell expresses her grief through the beauty of nature. She becomes the images as if she stepped into the painting and became the soul of nature.

I also enjoyed "Of My First Love" by Hugh MacDiarmid:

Silhouetted against grim black rocks
This foaming mountain torrent
With its source in desolate tarns
Is savage in the extreme
As its waters with one wild leap
Hurl over the dizzy brink
Of the perpendicular cliff-face
In that great den of nature
To be churned into spray
In the steaming depths below

After describing this waterfall, he then describes the water as a lover's waving hair in a tremendous cascade and then turns this into a description of great passion for his lover's golden hair rippling out between his fingers.

William Shakespeare makes his appearance in "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" I finally copied "Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning into my journal because I love the way the words sound like they are rowing through the gray sea to the warm sea-scented beach.

So while every Classic collections seems to present The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and Love's Philosophy, you will also find The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter by Li T'ai Po and The Mirabeau Bridge by Guillaume Apollinaire.

One Hundred and One Classic Love Poems will comfort you with classics and surprise you with poems you may have yet to discover.

~The Rebecca Review

This is an excellent and comprehensive anthology that features poets normally excluded from compilations of love poetry.

I thought that this book deserves a 5 star because it is a very lovely book that gives very good ideas on love poems.