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Poems about Love

Poetry Please looks at poems about love, presented by Roger McGough.

30 minutes

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Sat 14 Feb 2015 23:30

This Week's Poems

i carry your heart

By ee cummings

From Complete Poems 1904-1962

Published by Liveright 1994

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Love's Philosophy

By Percy Bysshe ShelleyÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

From Shelley Complete poetical Works

Published by Oxford Paperbacks 1971

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Not Love Perhaps

By ASJ Tessimond

From Collected Poems

Published by Bloodaxe 1985

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Love's Insight

By Robert Winnett

From Poems for Weddings

Published by Penguin 2004

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In a Bath Teashop

By John Betjeman

From The Best of Betjeman

Published by Penguin 1978ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

By John DonneÌý

From Donne

Published by Everyman’s Library 1995

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The World as Meditation

By Wallace Stevens

From The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Published by Vintage

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In Paris With you

By James Fenton

From Selected Poems

Published by Penguin 2006

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Love Without Hope

By Robert Graves

From Collected Poems

Published by Cassell 1975

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Without You

By Adrian Henri

From Collected Poems 1967-85

Published by Allison & Busby 1986

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Fidelity

By DH Lawrence

From Collected Poems

Published by Penguin 1993

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For Dusty

By Arnold Wesker

From All Things Tire of Themselves

Published by Flambard Press 2008

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The Invitation

By John Clare

From John Clare, Selected by Paul Farley

Published by faber & faber 2007

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The Table

By Stella Rotenberg

From Shards

Published Edinburgh 2003

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Velvet Shoes

By Elinor Wylie

Taken from

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The Ring

By Kathleen Raine

From The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine

Published by Golgonooza Press 2000

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All You Who Sleep Tonight

By Vikram Seth

From All You Who Sleep Tonight

Published by faber & faber 1990

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