15 Minutes Of Love Poems - Volume 1 - "How Do I Love Thee" & Many More: A history of love poems ready to squeeze into any moment of your day.

Written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Michael Drayton, Alfred Austin and 7 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

Love. What is love?

The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive.

Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt.

Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for another.

Love is perhaps best expressed through poetry. As Plato said 2500 years ago “At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet”. Writing a love poem for ones’ partner is seen as the most romantic of gestures. It opens our hearts to another's. Lovers love.

Here, in this volume history’s greatest poets convey thoughts, feelings and sentiments of love to you in quick (or bite-size) conversations of verse that can slip into your day and your partner's heart.

01 - Fifteen Minutes of Love - Volume 1 - How Do I Love Thee & Other Poems

02 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

03 - First Love by John Clare

04 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller

05 - An April Love by Alfred Austin

06 - The Sad Shepherd's Passion of Love by George Peele

07 - To His Coy Love by Michael Drayton

08 - Modern Love I by George Meredith

09 - Unbosoming by Michael Field aka Katherine Bradley & Edith Cooper

10 - Unending Love by Tagore

11 - To The Beloved by Alice Meynell

12 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats

13 - Sweet Evenings Come And Go Love by George Eliot

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781839674938

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was an English poet. The daughter of a wealthy family—her father made his fortune as a slave owner in Jamaica, while her mother’s family owned and operated sugar plantations, mills, and ships—Browning eventually became an abolitionist and advocate for child labor laws. Her marriage to the prominent Victorian poet Robert Browning caused the final break between Browning and her family, after which she moved to Italy and lived there with Robert for the rest of her life. She began writing poems at a young age, finding success with the 1844 publication of Poems. Browning went on to be recognized as one of the foremost poets of early Victorian England, influencing such writers as Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson. She is most famous for her Sonnets from the Portuguese, a collection of 44 love poems published in 1850, and Aurora Leigh, an 1856 epic poem described by leading Victorian critic John Ruskin as the greatest long poem written in the nineteenth century. Browning suffered from numerous illnesses throughout her life, eventually succumbing in Florence at the age of 55.