Traditional Favorites

1. How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

2. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
(Sonnet 130)
by William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun...

3. When You are Old
by W. B. Yeats
When you are old and grey and full of sleep...

4. Love
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We cannot live| except thus mutually...

5. The Definition of Love
by Andrew Marvell
My Love is of a birth as rare...

American Classics

1. somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
by E. E. Cummings
somewhere i have never travelled|gladly beyond...

2. I Love You
by Sara Teasdale
When April bends above me...

3. True Love
by Robert Penn Warren
In silence the heart raves. It utters words...

4. Lullaby
by W. H. Auden
Lay your sleeping head| my love...

5. It's all I have to bring today (26)
by Emily Dickinson
It's all I have to bring today...

Contemporary Romance

1. To Dorothy
by Marvin Bell
You are not beautiful, exactly...

2. When a Woman Loves a Man
by David Lehman
When she says margarita she means daiquiri...

3. Credo
by Matthew Rohrer
I believe there is something else...

4. The Kiss
by Stephen Dunn
How many years I must have yearned...

5. It Was Raining In Delft
by Peter Gizzi
A cornerstone. Marble pilings. Curbstones and brick...

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10. Kay Ryan

1. Langston Hughes

2. Robert Frost

3. Emily Dickinson

4. Walt Whitman

5. E. E. Cummings

6. William Carlos Williams

7. Edgar Allan Poe

8. Sylvia Plath

9. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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1. Do not go gentle into that good night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night...

2. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...

3. We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We / Left school...

4. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers: / I've known rivers ancient as the world...

5. "What Do Women Want?"
by Kim Addonizio
I want a red dress. / I want it flimsy and cheap...

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