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Amaturus -- William Johnson Cory / "And forgive us our trespasses" -- Aphra Behn / Annabel Lee -- Edgar Allan Poe / The Banks o' Doon -- Robert Burns / Believe me, if all those endearing young charms -- Thomas Moore / Billy Boy -- unknown / A Birthday -- Christina Rossetti / Bonny Barbara Allen -- unknown / Bright Star -- John Keats / Come, my Celia -- Ben Jonson / The Country of Marriage -- Wendell Berry / Dover Beach -- Matthew Arnold -- A drinking song -- William Butler Yeats / Echo -- Christina Rossetti / The face of Helen -- Christohe Marlowe / First time he kissed me, he but only kissed -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning / From Idea -- Michael Drayton / from paradise Lost -- John Milton / from Sappho -- Walter Savage Landor / from Twelfth Night -- William Shakespeare / Fulfillment -- William Cavendish / Habitation -- Margaret Atwood / How do I love thee? Let me count the ways -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning / How like a winter hath my absence been -- William Shakespeare / I have come to you to greet you -- Afanasy Fet (Shenshin) / I think I should have loved you presently -- Edna St. Vincent Millay / If thou must love me, let it be for nought -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning / The Indian serenade -- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Jenny kiss'd me -- James Henry Light Hunt / La Belle Dame sans merci -- John Keats / Lady Greensleeves -- unknown / Let me not to the marriage of true minds -- William Shakespeare / The little old lady in lavender silk -- Dorothy Parker / Love is enough -- William Morris / Love recognized -- Robert Penn Warren / Love 20 cents the first quarter mile -- Kenneth Fearing / Love will find out the way -- unknown / Love's philosophy -- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Lullaby -- W.H. Auden / The marriage -- Yvor Winters / Marriage morning -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Meeting at night -- Robert Browning / The Mirabeau Bridge -- Guillaume Apollinaire / My life closed twice before its close -- Emily Dickinson / The night has a thousand eyes -- Francis William Bourdillon / The Night-piece: to Julia -- Robert Herrick.

Also: Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae -- Ernest Dowson / Now! -- Robert Browning / Now sleeps the crimson petal -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Of my first love -- Hugh MacDiarmid / Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow! -- Edna St. Vincent Millay / An old sweetheart of mine -- James Whitcomb Riley / On the balcony -- D.H. Lawrence / One day I wrote her name upon the Strand -- Edmund Spenser / Part of plenty -- Bernard Spencer / The passionate shepherd to his love -- Christopher Marlowe / Patterns -- Amy Lowell / The ragged wood -- William Butler Yeats / Recuerdo -- Edna St. Vincent Millay / A red, red rose -- Robert Burns / Remembrance -- Sir Thomas Wyatt / The river-merchant's wife: a letter -- Li T'ai-Po / Rubaiyat (selections) -- Omar Khayyám / Sally in our alley -- Henry Carey / Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? -- William Shakespeare / She dwelt among the untrodden ways -- William Wordsworth / She tells her love while half asleep -- Robert Graves / She walks in beauty -- George Gordon, Lord Byron / She was a phantom of a delight -- William Wordsworth / The silken tent -- Robert Frost / somewhere i have never travelled -- e.e. cummings / Song -- William Davenant / Song from Naud -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Song of Solomon, Chapter Two -- attributed to King Solomon / Song to Celia -- Ben Jonson / Summum Bonum -- Robert Browning / The sun rising / John Donne / Sweet disorder -- Robert Herrick / The taxi -- Amy Lowell / That time of year thous mayst in me behold -- William Shakespeare / This is just to say -- William Carlos Williams / To -- -- Percy Bysshe Shelley / To Althea, from prison -- Richard Lovelace / To Celia -- Sir Charles Sedley / To Helen -- Edgar Allan Poe / To his coy mistress -- Andrew Marvell / To Lucasta, on going to the wars -- Richard Lovelace / To my dear and loving husband -- Anne Bradstreet / To the virgins to make much of time -- Robert Herrick / True love -- Judith Viorst / Two in the Campagna -- Robert Browning / Upon Julia's clothes -- Robert Herrick / What lips my lips have kissed -- Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Also: When I was one-and-twenty -- A.E. Housman / When our two souls stand up erect and strong -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning / When you are old -- William Butler Yeats / Wild nights -- Emily Dickinson / William and Emily -- Edgar Lee Masters / Wish for a young wife -- Theodore Roethke / With how sad steps O Moon -- Sir Philip Sidney / A woman's last word / Robert Browning.