The Many Faces of Love: What the Greatest Love Poems in English Say About Love
By Anne Kinsey
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For hopeless romantics who love the lyrical poetry of past centuries, here is a look at the classic love poems and what they say about love.
As the great poets know, love is not all a bed of roses. There is heartbreak and desolation, as well as hearts soaring like angels and stories of great love.
Download a sample, start reading and enjoy – or send to that special person in your life who loves romantic poetry.
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The Many Faces of Love - Anne Kinsey
The Many Faces of Love
What the Greatest LOVE Poems
in English Say About LOVE
by Anne Kinsey
Copyright © 2012 by Anne Kinsey
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Published by Castell Books
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Table of Contents
When Love is Fleeting
When Love is Seductive
When Love is Joyful
When Love is Forbidden
When Love Is Perfect
About Sweet and Twenty?
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Taking the stages of love out of order, this first poem looks at a love which is exquisite and delightful, but fleeting. Written in classical Tamil more than two thousand years ago, this poem goes to show that women falling in love with elusive men who offer thrills and romance but refuse to be tied down is nothing new:
He is from those mountains
where the black-faced monkey,
playing in the sun
rolls the wild peacock eggs
on the rocks.
Yes, his love is always good
as you say, my friend,
but only for those strong enough
to bear it,
who will not cry themselves out
or think anything of it
when he leaves.
The man in the poem is primitive and sensuous and playful, as suggested by the image of a black-faced monkey playing in the sun. He is from those
mountains, a place remote and elevated. He toys with fragile objects, as suggested by the description of a monkey rolling a peacock’s eggs on the rocks. The object he toys with is not only fragile, but, like a peacock egg, has the potential of developing into something beautiful.
To the unfortunate woman in love with him, his love is always good.
But, at the height of the romance while the thrills are greatest and the woman is very much in love, he leaves. The final line consisting of only three words stands in contrast to the earlier playful