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Beautiful  love poems by various poets illustrated by beautiful paintings mostly by Pre-raphaelites and gorgeous music too!

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Idle moments by Josef Englehart

A Betrothal

By E.J.Scovell

A Birthday

   By Christina Rossetti

A Day Dream

By Emily Jane Bronte

A Friend Like You

Anon

After the Lunch

By Wendy Cope

Again and Again

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Ah, how sweet

By John Dryden

Alba

By Ezra Pound

Alms

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Match

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Amo, Amas

By John O'Keefe

Among all lovely things

By William Wordsworth

Amores I,V

From Ovid in Love by Derek Mahon

And is it night?

Anon

Annabel Lee

By Edgar Allen Poe

A Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

By Sir Walter Raleigh

Any Wife to Any Husband

By Robert Browning

Apology to Delia: For Desiring a Lock of Her Hair

By William Cowper

A Pretty Woman

By Robert Browning

A Report Song in a Dream, between a shepherd and his Nymph

By Nicholas Breton

Ask Me No More

By Thomas Carew

A song of a Young Lady to her ancient Lover

By John Wilmot Earl of Rochester

A Spring Morning

By John Clare

A Subaltern's Love-Song

By Sir John Betjeman

A Thunderstorm in town

By Thomas Hardy

At Last

By Elizabeth Akers Allen

All night by the rose

Anon

A Valentine to My Wife

By Eugene Field

Beautiful Dreamer

By Stephen Foster

Beauty and Love

By Andrew Young

Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her

By Christopher Brennan

Between

By Micheal O Siadhail

Bilitis

By Bilitis

Blest, blest and happy be

Anon

Bright Star

By John Keats

Called Proud

By Walter Savage Landor

Calypso's song to Ulysses

By Adrian Mitchell

Camomile Tea

By Katherine Mansfield

Cashel of Munster

By Sir Samuel Ferguson

Celia,Celia

By Adrian Mitchell

Chloe Divine

By Thomas D'Urfey

Country Love

By Norman Rowland Gale

Darling Shell, where hast thou been?

By W.S Landor

Day and Night

By Dennis O'Driscoll

Dear Black Head

From the Irish by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Did not

By Thomas Moore

Does it become a girl so wise

By W.S Landor

from Don Juan

By Byron

Do you remember that night?

By Eugene O'Curry translated from the Irish

Dream-Love

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Duet

By Alfred Tennyson

Eulalie

By Edgar Allen Poe

Evening

By John Clare

Exotic Scent

Charles Baudelaire translated by Alistair Elliot

Fain would I change that note

Anon

Fair Phyllis

Anon

First Love

By John Clare

A Boy's Will Flower-gathering

By Robert Frost

Flowers

By Wendy Cope

Freedom and Love

By Thomas Campbell

Gifts

By John thomson

Girl of the Red Mouth

By Martin MacDermott

Giving up smoking

By Wendy Cope

Greater Love

By Wilfred Owen

Habitation

By Margaret Atwood

He That Loves a Rosy Cheek

By Thomas Carew

How clear she shines

By Emily Bronte

How Do I Love Thee?

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I Do Not Love Thee For That Fair

By Thomas Carew

Idylls of the King

By Alfred Tennyson

I fear thy kisses gentle maiden

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

If thou must love me, let it be for naught

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

i like my body

By E.E Cummings

from In a Gondola

By Robert Browning

In an Artists Studio

By Christina Rossetti

In Kerry

By J.M Synge

It's Platonic

By Rita Ann Higgins

I want to talk to thee

By Dora Sigerson

Jenny Kissed Me

By Leigh Hunt

Kisses

By Elizabeth Akers Allen

from Kisses kept are wasted

By Edmund Vance Cooke

Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud

By Thomas Carew

Kubla Khan

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

La Belle Dame sans Merci

By John Keats

L'Amitie

By Monk Gibbon

Let not the marriage of true minds

By William Shakespeare

Letters from the Island

By Joan Newmann

Life in a Love

By Robert Browning

Lines

By W.M.Praed

Longing

By Matthew Arnold

Louisa

By William Wordsworth

Love

By Robert Browning

Love

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love

By Samuel Daniel

Love and Friendship

By Emily Bronte

Love is Enough

By William Morris

Love-Life

By Hugo Williams

Love Not Me

By John Wilbye

Lover

Paul Eluard translated by Derek Parker

Love's Secret

By William Blake

Love:Shyness

By C.K.Williams

Lovesong

By Ted Hughes

Love's Philosophy

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love's Trinity

By Alfred Austin

Love Thee

By Eliza Acton

Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show

By Sir Philip Sidney

Madrigal

By William Drummond of Hawthornden

Man and Wife

By Robert Lowell

Marriage Morning

By Alfred Tennyson

Maud

By Alfred Tennyson

Maybe

By Carl Sandburg

May I feel said he

By E.E Cummings

Meeting at night

By Robert Browning

Mine eyes beheld the blessed pity spring

By Dante Alighieri translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Moonlight Dances

By Bilitis

My Comforter

By Emily Jane Bronte

My Downfall

Dioskorides (3th Cent) translated by Peter Whigham

My Dream

By Ogden Nash

My Fancy

By Lewis Carroll

My Heart and Lute

By Thomas Moore

My Love in Her Attire

Anon

My Love Is Like to Ice

By Edmund Spenser

My man Thomas

By John Fletcher

My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

By William Shakespeare

My Star

By Robert Browning

Naked

By Pablo Neruda

None of Beauty's Daughters

By George Gordon Byron

Noon at St. Michaels

By Derek Mahon

Now sleeps the crimson petal

By Alfred Tennyson

O Divine Star of Heaven

By John Fletcher

Of Pearls and Stars

By Heinrich Heine

Oh, call it by some better name

By Thomas Moore

O Mistress Mine

By William Shakespeare

One Day I Wrote Her Name

By Edmund Spenser

One perfect Rose

By Dorothy Parker

One word is too often Profaned

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

On the Balcony

By D.H. Lawrence

from Paradise Lost

By John Milton

Passion

By Charlotte Bronte

Perspective

By Coventry Padmore

Praise of my Lady

By William Morris

Queens

By J.M.Synge

Romance

By Edgar Allan Poe

Romance

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Samela

By Robert Greene

Sex and the over Forties

By Peter Porter

Shall I come, sweet love, to thee

By Thomas Campion

She bewitched me

By Thomas Burbridge

She Comes Not

By Herbert Trench

She Is Not Fair To Outward View

By Hartley Coleridge

She Moved through the Fair

By Padraic Colum

She tells her love

By Robert Graves

She walks in beauty, like the night

By Lord Byron

So Let Us Love

By Edmund Spenser

Song

By Sir John Davenant

Song

By John Dryden

Song

By Thomas Parnell

Song

By Edmund Waller

Song for Autumn

By Andrew Young

Song, from An Evening's Love

By John Dryden

Song of Secret Love

By John Clare

Song of Solomon

The King James Bible (1611)  2:8-13

Song: To Celia

By Ben Jonson

Song to Diana

By Benjamin Jonson

Sonnet CXVI

By William Shakespeare

Sonnet IX: To a Virtuous Young Lady

By John Milton

Sonnet XVIII

By Louise Labe (also in French)

Spring Song

By Francis Ledwidge

Stanzas To Augusta

By Lord George Gordon Byron

Strange fits of Passion

By William Wordsworth

from Summer with Monika

By Roger McGough

Sun up

By Richard Murphy

Sweet Disorder

By Robert Herrick

Symptoms of Love

By Robert Graves

Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away

By John Fletcher

Tell Me Not, Sweet

By Richard Lovelace

Songs of Experience The Angel

By William Blake

The beggar maid

By Alfred Tennyson

The Broken Heart

By William Barnes

The Clod and the Pebble

By William Blake

The Definition of Love

By Andrew Marvell

The Ecstacy

By John Donne

The Fair Singer

By Andrew Marvell

The First Day

By Christina Rossetti

The Flight of Love

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Flute

By Bilitis

The Forest of Weeks

By Aengus Hazelwood

The Garden of Love

By William Blake

The Great Lover

By Rupert Brooke

The Imprisoned Soul

By Walt Whitman

The Indian Serenade

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Letter

By Charlotte Bronte

Songs of Experience The Lilly

By William Blake

The Look

By Sara Teasdale

The Lost Mistress

By Robert Browning

The Lost Thrill

By James Whitcomb Riley

The Maid of Neidpath

By Sir Walter Scott

The Millars Daughter

By Alfred Tennyson

The night-piece, to Julia

By Robert Herrick

The Nymphs Song to Hylas

By William Morris

The Partner

By Theodore Roethke

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

By Christopher Marlowe

The Primrose

By Thomas Carew

The Princess

By Alfred Tennyson

The Ragged wood

By William Butler Yeats

There is a garden in her face

By Thomas Campion

There is a lady sweet and kind

Anon

There is no deed I would not dare

By Joseph Mary Plunkett

The Secret

By John Clare

The Story of Cupid and Psyche

By William Morris

The Torch of Love

By Walter Savage Landon

The Unknown

By Edward Thomas

Thou more than most sweet glove

By Ben Jonson

'Tis all for thee

By Thomas Moore

Time of Roses

By Thomas Hood

To....

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair

By Richard Lovelace

To Anthea: Ah! My Anthea!

By Robert Herrick

To a Stranger

By Walt Whitman

To a Young Lady

By William Cowper

To Daisies, not to shut so soon

By Robert Herrick

To Electra

By Robert Herrick

To Ellen

By Byron

To His Coy Love

By Michael Drayton

To Isadore

By Edgar Allan Poe

To Mary

By William Cowper

To My Dear and Loving Husband

By Anne Bradstreet

To one in Paradise

By Edgar Allan Poe

To the Lady May

By Aurelian Townsend

Touch

Octavio Paz Translated by Charles Tomlinson

To you

By Charles Donnelly

Tresses

By Bilitis

from Trilogy For X

By Louis Macneice

Twas when the spousal time of May

By Coventry Patmore

Two are together

By Geoffrey Grigson

Two in the Campagna

By Robert Browning

Two Red Roses Across the Moon

By William Morris

Under the lime tree

Walter Von Der Vogelweide Translated from the German by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Untitled

Anon

Upon Julia's Hair Filled With Dew

By Robert Herrick

Upon Julia's Unlacing Herself

By Robert Herrick

A Valentine

By Lewis Carroll

Valentine

By Wendy Cope

Valentine

By John Fuller

Venus Verticordia

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Vergier

By Ezra Pound

We get along

By Sara Berkeley

Westron wynd, when will thou blow

Anon

When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be

By John Keats

When I Was One-And-Twenty

ByA. E. Housman

What thing is Love?

By George Peele

When Soft Voices Die

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

When the Ecstatic Body Grips

By Eric Dodds

Who Ever Felt as I

By Walter Savage Landor

Who Ever Loved That Loved Not at First Sight?

By Christopher Marlowe

Wild Nights

By Emily Dickinson

Wishes. To his (supposed) Mistress

By Richard Crashaw

With a gift of rings

By Robert Graves

Within a Greenwood

Anon translated from the Italian

Why Is The Rose So Pale

By Heinrich Heine

You Say 'I Will Come

You smiled

By Walter Savage Landor

The Fruit girl by Godward

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