Favorite love poems of the ages--from medieval times to the 21st century--honoring love in its many stages: from longing to rapture, worship to dedication, torment to tenderness.

·Features more than 150 poets, including W.H. Auden, Robert Browning, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Anne Sexton, and other familiar greats
·Newly updated. Now includes more favorite international poets such as Anna Akmotova, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sor Juana Ines, Pablo Neruda, and others