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4) Possession
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
An academic researcher discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, and begins to investigate the story behind them.
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First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking poems that Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed for her husband, Robert Browning. This wonderful illustrated edition includes 22 additional works as well. Annotation. First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled “Live Oak, With Moss.” The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman’s most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex love, composed decades before the word “homosexual” came into use. This revolutionary, extraordinarily beautiful and passionate cluster of poems was...
9) Felicity
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A collection of poems explores the mysterious landscape of the human heart, describing the meaning and wonder of loving another person.
10) Boss Cupid
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A collection of poems by Thom Gunn that describe how people are ruled by their desires.
11) Stones: poems
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"A book of elegy, loss, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent. "We sleep long, / if not sound," Young writes early on in this exquisite gathering of poems, "Till the end/ we sing / into the wind." In scenes and settings that circle family and the generations in the American South--one poem, "Kith," exploring that strange bedfellow of "kin"--the speaker and his young son wander among the stones of their ancestors. "Like heat he seeks...
13) Love Poems
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Pub. Date
c1997
Description
In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works. From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyez on U," written for Tupac Shakur,...
14) 77 love sonnets
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When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 29, When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state' for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet...
16) This day is dark
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin comes This Day Is Dark, a heartbreakingly relatable collection of poetry and prose that captures some of the darkest moments over an 18-year period. This Day Is Dark is an evocative exploration into what itmeans and how it feels when forever is temporary and once celebrated love becomes unrecognizable"--
18) Love letters
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A collection of twenty poems written by kids and klutzes, secret admirers and detractors, friends, enemies, and skeptics to the objects of their affection--or aversion.