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Blushing : expressions of love in poems and letters
Title:
Blushing : expressions of love in poems and letters
Author:
Janeczko, Paul B.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Orchard Books [2004]

©2004
Physical Description:
xiii, 98 pages ; 19 cm
Summary:
Critically acclaimed poet and anthologist Paul Janeczko has turned his attention to a new compilation of love poems for teens. This book collects the most poignant and moving musings about love from a diverse group of classic poets and writers like Shakespeare, Dickinson, Whitman, Millay, Angelous, and many more.
Language:
English
Contents:
Beginning of love: Letter / Ogden Nash to Frances Leonard Nash -- First love / John Clare -- She was a phantom of delight / William Wordsworth -- To Citriodora / Philip Henry Savage -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / William Shakespeare -- She walks in beauty / Lord Byron -- Feste's song (from Twelfth night) / William Shakespeare -- To Celia / Ben Jonson -- Hour with thee / Sir Walter Scott -- I shall hide myself / Chino Masako -- She tells her love while half asleep / Robert Graves -- Love comes quietly / Robert Creeley -- Kidnap poem / Nikki Giovanni -- Where we belong, a duet / Maya Angelou -- First time he kissed me, he but only kissed / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- In your light I learn how to love / Rumi -- In love: Letter / John Keats to Fanny Brawne -- Deep in love / Bhavabhuti -- To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet -- Passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- Good-morrow / John Donne -- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- I carry your heart with me / e.e. cummings -- Sonnet of the moon / Charles Best -- Warmth / Barton Sutter -- I do not love you / Pablo Neruda -- Roadmap / Harryette Mullen -- Loving again / Gloria Wade-Gayles -- I want to die while you love me / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Alone in love: Letter / Rupert Brooke to Noel Oliver -- Separation / W.S. Merwin -- Thunderstorm in town / Thomas Hardy -- Song / John Clare -- Rondeau / James Henry Leigh Hunt -- Look / Sara Teasdale -- Nineteen / George Bogin -- I think I should have loved you presently / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Taxi / Amy Lowell -- Everybody tells me / Lady Sono no Omi Ikuha -- Waiting / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- I can't hold you and I can't leave you / Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Dream / Langston Hughes -- End of love: Letter / Percy Bysshe Shelley to Harriet Shelley -- End of love / Sophie Hannah -- Like the touch of rain / Edward Thomas -- Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy -- May / Christina Rossetti -- Heart! we will forget him / Emily Dickinson -- Time does not bring relief / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Never again would birds' song be the same / Robert Frost -- When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman -- When we tow parted / Lord Byron -- Remembering love: Letter / Charlotte Bronte to Constantine Heger -- Stop all the clocks / W.H. Auden -- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / William Shakespeare -- First day / Christina Rossetti -- Longing / Matthew Arnold -- coat / Vicki Feaver -- When you are old / William Butler Yeats -- What lips my lips have kissed / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Love / Pablo Neruda -- I hid you / Miklos Radnoti -- I still have everything you gave me / Naomi Shihab Nye.
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ISBN:
9780439530569
Format :
Book