Love Poetry read by Classic Poetry Aloud:

http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/

Giving voice to the poetry of the past.

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Poetry in the lead up to Valentine’s Day will include:

8th February: New love – Absence by Robert Bridges

9th February: The need for love – Revelation by Sir Edmund Gosse

10th February: Love as conquest – The Fair Singer by Andrew Marvell

11th February: Love as surrender – Surrender by Emily Dickinson

12th February: Love of friendship – My True-Love Hath my Heart by Sir Philip Sidney

13th February: Love after many years – Reunited by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

14th February: The promise of future love – Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Love’s Secret

by William Blake (1757 – 1827)

Never seek to tell thy love,

Love that never told can be;

For the gentle wind does move

Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,

I told her all my heart;

Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears,

Ah! she did depart!

Soon as she was gone from me,

A traveller came by,

Silently, invisibly

He took her with a sigh.

Love Hate Poem

by Ellen P. Allerton (1835 – 1893)

Although a thousand leagues two hearts divide,

That love has joined, the gulf is not so great

As that twixt two, who, dwelling side by side

Behold between, the black abyss of Hate.

Jenny Kissed Me

by James Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859)

Jenny kiss'd me when we met,

Jumping from the chair she sat in;

Time, you thief, who love to get

Sweets into your list, put that in!

Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,

Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,

Say I'm growing old, but add,

Jenny kiss'd me.