The Best Love Poems Ever FROM THE PUBLISHER
The beauty. The pain. Being together. Being separated. Love has long been one of the greatest inspirations for poetry. Now read some of the greatest poets of all time as they take on love in all of its forms. Included are poems by William Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Butler Yeats, Rita Dove, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Sappho, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti...and many more!
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Verses from antiquity to the present appear in the paperback The Best Love Poems Ever, edited by David Rohlfing. Featured poets rhapsodizing on love's virtue and influence include Sappho, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes. In "A Statue of Eros," the Greek poet Zenodotos writes, "Who carved Love/ and placed him by/ this fountain,/ thinking/ he could control/ such fire/ with water?" Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.