A timeless collection of the world's most cherished poems of love and romance Love can make us tongue-tied, unsure of what to say, even when our hearts are filled with feeling. Time and again, starry-eyed lovers have turned to the masters of romantic verse for help in putting those emotions into words.Whether you are a newcomer to poetry or harbor a lifelong passion for verse, in this indispensable collection you will enjoy the world's most evocative love poems, written by the greatest poets of all time. In this portable volume, William Shakespeare compares his love to a summer's day, Elizabeth Barrett Browning counts the ways, Lord Byron gazes upon his beloved as "She walks in beauty, like the night," and Robert Herrick urges us to "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may." Replete with timeless masterpieces, this keepsake includes such unforgettable classics as "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" by William Wordsworth, "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats, and "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet.Here, too, are modern treasures, including William Carlos Williams' simple love note to his wife ("I have eaten/the plums/that were in/the icebox"); Edna St.Vincent Millay's "Recuerdo"; and a most celebrated favorite, e. e. cummings' "somewhere i have never travelled," with its famous final line, "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands." This collection also contains a special sampling of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's love sonnets. Written to her husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, these impassioned, intimate poems are a record of a romance that became one of the world's greatest love stories. From sonnets to ballads, epics to free verse, the poems in this collection span the centuries and continents, bringing to you all the radiance and majesty of romantic passion and deep, abiding love. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" The timeless words of the world's greatest poets resonate through the generations, inspiring the hearts of romantics ever...