Japan's most significant early anthology of poetry, the Manyoshu explores the many forms of love in the collection's more than 4,000 poems. This original selection of verses comprise the work of poets who write in a primitively vital and sensuous language, and their frequent experiments with form offer stimulating reading. Text is in English only. Excerpts from The Manyoshu: One Thousand Poems Selected and Translated from the Japanese, published for the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai by the Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 1940.
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.
