Includes index.

Foreword -- Dante Alighieri/ "My lady carries love within her eyes" -- Anacreon/ Wounded Cupid. Song -- Cecco Angiolieri, da Siena/ Of Love, in honor of his Mistress Becchina -- Anonymous/ A Lady laments for her lost Lover, by similitude of a Falcon -- Anonymous/ Western Wind -- Anonymous/ "I saw my lady weep" -- Anonymous/ Fragment of a Song on the Beautiful Wife of Dr. John Overall, Dean of St. Paul's -- Anonymous/ There is a Lady Sweet and Kind -- Anonymous/ "I gently touched her hand: she gave" -- Anonymous/ Coy lass Dress'd Up in Her Best -- Anonymous/ Bonny Barbara Allan -- Anonymous/ Lord Randal -- Anonymous/ Unquiet Grave -- Matthew Arnold/ To Marguerite-Continued -- W.H. Auden/ "Lay your sleeping head, my love" -- Elizabeth Bishop/ Insomnia -- William Blake/ A Question Answered -- My Pretty Rose-Tree -- Garden of Love -- Smile -- Wilfrid Blunt/ Farewell to Juliet -- Francis William Bourdillon/ "The night has a thousand eyes" -- Anne Bradstreet/ A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment -- Emily Brontë/ Remembrance -- Rupert Brooke/ Hill -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning/ Sonnet XIV -- Sonnet XLIII -- Robert Browning/ A Woman's Last Word -- Meeting at Night -- Lost Mistress -- Robert Burns/ A Red Red Rose -- Bonie Doon -- John Anderson, My Jo -- David Stanford Burr/ Coming -- Lord Byron/ She Walks in Beauty -- So We'll Go No More A-Roving -- When We Two Parted -- Thomas Campion/ My Sweetest Lesbia -- Vobiscum Est Iope -- Thomas Carwe/ On the Marriage of T.K. and C.C., the Morning Stormy -- Secrecy Protested -- To My Inconstant Mistress -- Geoffrey Chaucer/ Song of Troilus -- Joh n Clare/ First Love -- Mary Coleridge/ "My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His" -- William Congreve/ "False though she be to me and love" -- E.E. Cummings/ "i like my body when it is with your" -- Bertrand D'Alamonon/ "If you would know the reason why" -- Charles D'Orleans/ Smiling Mouth -- Arnaut Daniel/ from "When sere leaf falleth."

Continued: -- Emily Dickinson/ "I cannot live with you" -- "My life closed twice before its close" -- "Wild nights! Wild Nights! -- John Donne/ A Valediction Forbidding Mourning -- Break of Day -- "Sweetest love, I do not go" -- Expiration -- Flea -- Good-Morrow -- Sun Rising -- Triple Fool -- To His Mistress Going to Bed -- Woman's Constancy -- Hilda Dolittle (H.D.)/ At Baia -- Ernest Dowson/ A Valediction -- Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae -- Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetet Incohare Longam -- Michael Drayton/ "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part-" -- John Dryden/ "Farewell ungrateful traitor" -- Richard Duke/ "After the fiercest pangs of hot desire" -- Lady Catherine Dyer/ Epitaph on the Monument of Sir William Dyer at Colmworth, 1641 -- Sir Edward Dyer/ A Silent Love -- Queen Elizabeth I/ "When I was fair and young and favour gracèd me" -- John Fletcher/ Love's Emblems -- Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away -- Robert Frost/ Meeting and Passing -- Oliver Goldsmith/ When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly -- George Granville/ Love -- Thomas Hardy/ A Kiss -- A Week -- Sigh -- Voice -- Sir John Harington/ Of an Heroical Answer of a Great Roman Lady to Her Husband -- Author to His wife, of a Woman's Eloquence -- George Herbert/ Love -- Robert Herrick/ Corinna's Going A-Maying -- Delight in Disorder -- Vine -- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time -- Upon Julia's Clothes -- A.E. Housman/ "Oh, when I was in love with you" -- Captain Tobia Hume/ Fain Would I Change That Note -- Leigh Hunt/ Jenny Kiss'd Me -- Ben Jonson/ Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell -- To Celia -- James Joyce/ Chamber Music XIII -- Chamber Music XX -- John Keats/ Bright Star -- "I cry your mercy-pity-love!-aye, love!" -- La Belle Dame sans Merci -- "This living hand, now warm and capable" -- Omar Khayyám/ "Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire" -- "Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough -- Walter Savage Landor/ Rose Aylmer -- "You smiled, you spoke, and I believed" -- Robert Lloyd/ Fan -- Richard Lovelace/ Scrutiny -- To Lucasta, Going to the Wars -- George Lyttleton/ "When Delia on the plain appears" -- Christopher Marlowe/ "In summer's heat and mid-time of the day" --tThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love -- from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus -- Andrew Marvell/ Definition of Love -- To His Coy Mistress.

Continued: -- George Meredith/ Modern Love XVI -- Modern Love XVII -- Alice Meynell/ Renouncement -- Edna St. Vincent Millay/ "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" -- John Milton/ Sonnett XXIII -- Thomas Moore/ An Argument -- Did Not -- Petrarch/ Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought -- Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor -- "Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind" -- Petronius Arbiter/ "Doing, a Filthy pleasure is, and short" -- Katherine Philips/ To Mrs. M.A. Upon Absence -- Edgar Allan Poe/ Annabel Lee -- To Helen -- Sir Walter Ralegh/ A Farewell to False love -- Her Reply -- Walsinghame -- Thomas Randolph/ Phyllis -- Milkmaid's Epithalamium -- Christina rossetti/ A Birthday -- An Apple-Gathering -- I Loved You First -- Mirage -- Promises Like Piecrust -- Remember -- When I Am Dead, My Dearest -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti/ "Two separate divided silences" -- Sappho/ One Girl -- Sir Charles Sedley/ On the Happy Corydon and Phyllis -- To Cloris -- William Shakespeare/ Sonnet XVIII -- Sonnet XXIX -- Sonnet XXX -- Sonnet LVII -- Sonnet LXVI -- Sonnet LXXIII -- Sonnet CXVI -- Sonnet CXXIX -- Sonnet CXXX -- Sonnet CXLI -- Feste's Song -- "Who is Silvia? what is she" -- Percy Bysshe Shelley/ "My true love hath my heart, and I have his" -- "With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!" -- Christopher Smart/ Author Apologizes to a Lady for His Being a Little Man -- Edmund Spenser/ Sonnet XXXVII -- Sonnet LXXV -- Sir John Suckling/ "Out upon it, I have loved" -- "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?" -- A.C. Swinburne/ Love and Sleep -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson/ "Now Sleeps the crimson petal, now the white" -- Dylan Thomas/ In My Craft or Sullen Art -- Edward Thomas/ And You, Helen -- Francis Thompson/ An Arab Love-Song -- Edmund Waller/ Song -- Walt Whitman/ From Pent-Up Aching Rivers -- from I Sing the Body Electric -- "When I heard at the close of the day" -- William Carlos Williams/ Love Song -- Widow's Lament in Springtime -- John Wilmot, Lord Rochester/ Love and life -- William Wordsworth/ She Was a Phantom of Delight -- Surprised by Joy -- Lady Mary Wroth/ Song -- "Is to leave all and take the thread of Love" -- Sir Thomas Wyatt/ "Alas! madam, for stealing of a kiss" -- "I abide and abide and better abide" -- Lover Rejoiceth -- They Flee from Me -- William Butler Yeats/ Down by the Salley Gardens -- To an Isle in the Water -- When You Are Old -- Index of First Lines -- Acknowledgments.