Poems for Honeymooners: Love poems for married people

Written by W B Yeats

Narrated by Alex Jennings

Honeymoons are a relatively modern concept in the western world, dating from the 19th Century and have since become a multi-billion dollar industry turning the beginning of wedded bliss into a smorgsboard of ‘must have this’ and ‘must do that’.

However, celebrating a marriage is something we perhaps all feel should be a more intimate occasion. After all this part of the journey is possibly unique as well as universal and timeless. Sex, possibly for the first time, is now an expression of the wedded state, cementing and reframing the relationship as a new couple.

Within the lines of this volume are perfect poems for those on such a journey, whether it a romantic holiday setting or relaxed at home as our classic poets revel in the sensual, the sexy and above all the love for that very special chosen person in our lives. Our verse includes those from Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rossetti, W B Yeats, Khalil Gibran, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and many more.

01 - Poetry for Honeymooners - An Introduction

02 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats

03 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

04 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson

05 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

06 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson

07 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne

08 - Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

09 - The Sunne Rising by John Donne

10 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran

11 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges

12 - The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

13 - The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn

14 - A Nuptial Verse to Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy by Robert Herrick

15 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson

02 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley

17 - Her Breast is Fit For Pearls by Emily Dickinson

18 - Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar

19 - The Flea by John Donne

20 - To Celia by Ben Jonson

21 - She Lay Naked All in Bed - Anonymous

22 - Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick

23 - Amores - Book I Elegy V - Corinna in an Afternoon by Ovid

24 - For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin Wu Zao

25 - The Kiss by Charlotte Dacre

26 - That Kiss By Daniel Sheehan

27 - The First Kiss Of Love by Lord Byron

28 - First Love by John Clare

29 - Longing by Matthew Arnold

30 - Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson

31 - Sonnet IV - Lovesight by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

32 - Love is Enough by William Morris

33 - Lips and Eyes by Thomas Carew

34 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

35 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face by Edna St Vincent Millay

36 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller

37 - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day by William Shakespeare

38 - Beauty That is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson

39 - Bright Star by John Keats

40 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke

41 - A Bridal Song by John Ford

42 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg

43 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch

44 - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran

45 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

46 - Unending Love by Tagore

47 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence

48 - June, a Tale by William Cowper

49 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

50 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte

51 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

52 - Terminus by Edith Wharton

53 - The Good Morrow by John Donne

54 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803545356

W B Yeats

William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in County Dublin. With his much-loved early poems such as 'The Stolen Child', and 'He Remembers Forgotten Beauty', he defined the Celtic Twilight mood of the late-Victorian period and led the Irish Literary Renaissance. Yet his style evolved constantly, and he is acknowledged as a major figure in literary modernism and twentieth-century European letters. T. S. Eliot described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. W. B. Yeats died in 1939.