The Nation's Favourite Love Poems

SONNET FROM THE PORTUGUESE XLIII: How do I love thee?

HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN

A RED, RED ROSE

SONNET 116: LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS

THEE, THEE, ONLY THEE

SONNET LXXV: One day I wrote her name Upon the strand

TO HIS COY MISTRESS

SONNET 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

FIRST LOVE

LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY

GLOIRE DE DIJON

DELIGHT IN DISORDER

WARMING HER PEARLS

SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY

FIELDWORK

TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND

VALENTINE

YOU'RE

STELLA'S BIRTHDAY

WORDS, WIDE NIGHT

PART OF PLENTY

THE FIRST DAY

THE GOOD MORROW

AIRE AND ANGELS

BRIGHT STAR

SONNET FROM THE PORTUGUESE XIV: If thou must love me

THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE

From THE SONG OF SOLOMON

SONNET FROM THE PORTUGUESE I: I thought once how Theocritus had sung

FOR ANNE GREGORY

LOVESONG

IN HONOUR OF LOVE

THE CANONIZATION

LOVE IN A LIFE

I WILL MAKE YOU BROOCHES

ELEGIE: TO HIS MISTRIS GOING TO BED

LOVE

THE SUNNE RISING

CODE POEM FOR THE FRENCH RESISTANCE

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI

GREENSLEEVES

INDOOR GAMES NEAR NEWBURY

THE CONFIRMATION

THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSAND SHIPS

From THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

THE COURTSHIP OF THE YONGHY-BONGHY-BO

THE FLEA

I GENTLY TOUCHED HER HAND

MY TRUE LOVE HATH MY HEART

CORINNAE CONCUBITUS from Ovid

THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE

THE HILL

From PARADISE LOST

THEY FLEE FROM ME

EPISTLE TO MISS BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN AFTER THE CORONATION

SONNET 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

SONNET 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

THE BAITE

LOCHINVAR

THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT

A SUBALTERN'S LOVE-SONG

HE FUMBLES AT YOUR SPIRIT

SYMPTOMS OF LOVE

TARANTELLA

ON MARRIAGE (from The Prophet)

LOVE AND SLEEP

WEDDING-WIND

RENOUNCEMENT

From SUMMER WITH MONICA

THE UNDERTAKING

THE ANNIVERSARY

A BIRTHDAY

THE VOICE

R. ALCONA TO J. BRENZAIDA

LOVE SONGS IN AGE

WHEN WE TWO PARTED

A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING

TO LIZBIE BROWNE

REMEMBER

GO NOW

GO, LOVELY ROSE

SONNET XLII: What lips my lips have kissed

WHEN YOU ARE OLD

NOW SLEEPS THE CRIMSON PETAL (from The Princess)

AE FOND KISS