15 Minutes Of Love Poems - Volume 10 - "The Passionate Sheperd" & Many More: A history of love poems ready to squeeze into any moment of your day.

Written by Emily Dickinson, Christopher Marlowe, Adelaide Anne Proctor and 10 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 10 - The Passionate Shepherd & Other Poems

02 - The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe

03 - Youth And Love by Robert Louis Stevenson

04 - How Sweet I Roam'd From Field To Field by William Blake

05 - One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand by Edmund Spenser

06 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson

07 - Sonnet IV - Lovesight by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

08 - Oh, Is it Love by Amy Levy

09 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy

10 - Venus in the Garden by James Weldon Johnson

11 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne

12 - Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Proctor

13 - Love and Hate by Elizabeth Siddal

13 - Youth and Love by Robert Louis Stevenson

14 - We Parted In Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford

15 - A Life Without Love by Shams Tabrizi

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781839675027

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson was raised in a prominent family of lawyers and politicians alongside two siblings. For seven years, she studied at Amherst Academy, excelling in English, classics, and the sciences. Dickinson suffered from melancholy and poor health from a young age, taking several breaks from school to stay with family in Boston. After graduation, Dickinson enrolled at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, withdrawing ten months later to return home to Amherst. Through her friend Benjamin Franklin Newton, she was introduced to the poetry of William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose influence would prove profound as she embarked on a literary life of her own. Despite her status as one of the greatest American poets of the nineteenth century, Dickinson published only ten poems and one letter during her lifetime, only a sampling of nearly two thousand poems discovered after her death. Cast as an eccentric by contemporaries and later critics alike, Dickinson was an enigmatic figure whose experimental forms and extensive use of symbols have inspired generations of readers and poets. By the 1870s, following the death of her father, Dickinson had largely withdrawn from public life. Spending much of her time caring for her ailing mother, she still managed to write poems and send letters to friends and family. In 1886, following her death, Dickinson’s younger sister Lavinia discovered her collection of poems and began the long and arduous process of bringing them to print.