May 2008
New poems by Spencer Reece, Jane Hirshfield, Seth Abramson, Liz Waldner, Sandra M. Gilbert, Cathy Park Hong, and others; notebook by Eavan Boland; exchange between Cate Marvin and Joshua Mehigan, and more!

Wrestling
By Louisa S. Bevington

My Life’s Delight
By Thomas Campion

Love and Sleep
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Pastoral Dialogue
By Anne Killigrew

Of Love
By Robert Herrick

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Sonnet XL: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
By William Shakespeare

The Expiration
By John Donne

Sonnet LXV: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
By William Shakespeare

from Hero and Leander: "It lies not in our power to love or hate"
By Christopher Marlowe

Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
By William Shakespeare

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They Flee From Me
By Thomas Wyatt

Song: “Why should a foolish marriage vow”
By John Dryden

To my Inconstant Mistress
By Thomas Carew

Before Parting
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Neutral Tones
By Thomas Hardy

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“If no love is, O God, what fele I so?”
By Petrarch

I Love You
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"I know that all beneath the moon decays"
By William Drummond of Hawthornden

To Asra
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poem for My Love
By June Jordan

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Astrophel and Stella XXX: "With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!"
By Sir Philip Sidney

Delia II
By Samuel Daniel

A Thousand Martyrs
By Aphra Behn

The Aged Lover Renounceth Love
By Thomas Lord Vaux

Ode I, 5: To Pyrrha
By Horace

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Ode 44
By Hafiz

Songs from The Beggar’s Opera: Air IV—Cotillion
By John Gay

A True Maid
By Matthew Prior

The Vine
By Robert Herrick

To One That Asked Me Why I Lov’d J.G.
By Ephelia

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Man to Woman
The Rain
By Robert Creeley

Litany
By Billy Collins

First Love
By John Clare

Invitation to Love
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Woman to Man
Love Song
By Mary Davies

"I wish I could remember that first day"
By Christina Rossetti

To My Dear and Loving Husband
By Anne Bradstreet

Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
By Elizabeth Browning





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Sonnet XL: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
By William Shakespeare

The Expiration
By John Donne

Sonnet LXV: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
By William Shakespeare

from Hero and Leander: "It lies not in our power to love or hate"
By Christopher Marlowe

Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
By William Shakespeare

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Delia L
By Samuel Daniel

When Last We Parted
By Catherine Maria Fanshawe

The House of Life LIII: Without Her
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Now Winter Nights Enlarge
By Thomas Campion

from Maud: O that 'twere possible
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Platonic Love
By Abraham Cowley

No Platonic Love
By William Cartwright

"I cry your mercy-pity-love! -aye, love!"
By John Keats

Madrigal: "Like the Idalian queen"
By William Drummond of Hawthornden

Astrophel and Stella XIV
By Sir Philip Sidney

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Rain on a Grave
By Thomas Hardy

The Haunter
By Thomas Hardy

After Death
By Christina Rossetti

In the Orchard
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

We Never Know
By Yusef Komunyakaa

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