1.
Song of Songs, The Song of Solomon
from the Hebrew bible--so many have been modelled after this
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2.
Song: To Celia, by Ben Jonson
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3.
Sonnet XVIII, by William Shakespeare
“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day...”
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4.
Sometimes with One I Love, by Walt Whitman
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5.
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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6.
Song, by William Blake
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7.
Love’s Philosophy, by Percy Shelley
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8.
somewhere i have never travelled, by e.e. cummings
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9.
Quatrain, by Rumi
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10.
Eve Speaks to Adam, by John Milton
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11.
She Walks in Beauty, by Lord Byron
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12.
A Red, Red Rose, by Robert Burns
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13.
To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell
the one so often studied in high school English classes
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14.
Everything Promised Him to Me, by Anna Akhmatova
by the influential Russian (Ukranian) poet
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15.
I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once, by Yehuda Amichai
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16.
When You Are Old, by William Butler Yeats
a pledge of love, despite the knowledge that we grow old and beauty fades
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17.
I Do Not Look for Love That is a Dream, by Christina Rossetti,
a love poem by the English poet
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18.
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, by Sir Walter Raleigh
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19.
Come, And Be My Baby, by Maya Angelou
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20.
Sonnet XLIII from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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21.
Unending Love By Rabindranath Tagore.
Rabindranath Tagore is perhaps the world's greatest playwright and novelist.
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