Love Poetry read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/
Giving voice to the poetry of the past.

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Poetry in the lead up to Valentine’s Day will include:

8th February: New love – Absence by Robert Bridges
9th February: The need for love – Revelation by Sir Edmund Gosse
10th February: Love as conquest – The Fair Singer by Andrew Marvell
11th February: Love as surrender – Surrender by Emily Dickinson
12th February: Love of friendship – My True-Love Hath my Heart by Sir Philip Sidney
13th February: Love after many years – Reunited by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
14th February: The promise of future love – Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Love’s Secret
by William Blake (1757 – 1827)

Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears,
Ah! she did depart!

Soon as she was gone from me,
A traveller came by,
Silently, invisibly
He took her with a sigh.



Love Hate Poem
by Ellen P. Allerton (1835 – 1893)

Although a thousand leagues two hearts divide,
That love has joined, the gulf is not so great
As that twixt two, who, dwelling side by side
Behold between, the black abyss of Hate.



Jenny Kissed Me
by James Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859)

Jenny kiss'd me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss'd me.