Rich sampling of more than 120 works — characteristically charming, witty and graceful — by poets associated with the court of Charles I of England: Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling and Richard Lovelace. Includes Herrick's "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time," Suckling's "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?" and more. Reprinted from standard editions.
Great Love Poems by Shane Weller Over 150 familiar works by English and American poets: John Donne's "The Ecstasy," William Blake's "The Garden of Love," as well as poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, many more.
Great Sonnets by Paul Negri Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Masterpieces by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Swinburne, Yeats, Frost, Poe, many more.
English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology by Stanley Appelbaum Features 123 poems by 6 great poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets.
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Famed series of 44 love poems written to the poet's husband, Robert Browning, plus a selection of poems dealing with religion, art, social problems, and political events. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.