Want: List of Romantic Poetry for Valentine's Day

[TriciaG]

Got a tweet today: "Will you be posting any list of romantic poetry in honor of Valentine's Day?"

Sure, why not?

Is someone willing to put together a list of romantic poetry projects that we could post for V-Day?

I'm not sure if we can pick out individual poems from collections - those would be hard to link to. But we could use weekly/fortnightly poetry, or if any poet is especially romantic and has a whole project cataloged, we could use that, too.

What do you think? Who's game?

[commonsparrow3]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese --
Two versions on LV --
https://librivox.org/sonnets-from-the-portugese-by-elizabeth-barrett-browning/
https://librivox.org/sonnets-from-the-portuguese-by-elizabeth-barrett-browning/

[Rapunzelina]

https://librivox.org/romantic-poetry-001/



Oh unfortunately we didn't think of this earlier so as to do a new volume...

[commonsparrow3]

A score of suggestions from the weekly/fortnightly poetry files --

https://librivox.org/the-passionate-shepherd-to-his-love-by-christopher-marlowe-2/
https://librivox.org/the-nymphs-reply-to-the-shepherd-by-sir-walter-raleigh/
https://librivox.org/my-true-love-by-sir-philip-sidney/
https://librivox.org/momentous-words-by-edward-roland-sill/
https://librivox.org/a-match-by-algernon-charles-swinburne/
https://librivox.org/loves-wantonness-by-thomas-lodge/
https://librivox.org/oh-call-it-by-some-better-name-by-thomas-moore/
https://librivox.org/love-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge/
https://librivox.org/one-and-two-by-will-carleton/
https://librivox.org/believe-me-if-all-those-endearing-young-charms-by-thomas-moore/
https://librivox.org/retort-by-paul-laurence-dunbar/
https://librivox.org/promises-like-pie-crust-by-christina-rossetti/
https://librivox.org/the-presence-of-love-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge/
https://librivox.org/the-silver-wedding-by-john-godfrey-saxe/
https://librivox.org/sonnet-130-by-william-shakespeare/
https://librivox.org/the-taxi-by-amy-lowell/
https://librivox.org/to-his-coy-mistress-by-andrew-marvell/
https://librivox.org/a-valentine-from-an-old-lover-by-jesse-pope/
https://librivox.org/venus-transiens-by-amy-lowell/
https://librivox.org/when-i-was-one-and-twenty-by-a-e-housman/
https://librivox.org/when-you-are-old-by-william-butler-yeats/

And this collection --
https://librivox.org/wedding-poems-for-kristin-and-corey/

[kayray]

And this collection --
https://librivox.org/wedding-poems-for-kristin-and-corey/

Awww I forgot about this project. Kristin (Kri) was an admin way back when. She and Corey have three kids now!

[Peter Why]

For me, Recuerdo was a love poem, too: https://librivox.org/recuerdo-by-edna-st-vincent-millay/

That first gentle, amused amazement at what's happening.

Peter

[MARTIN GEESON]

Valentine's Day appears to have been largely invented by the great Geoffrey Chaucer, perhaps with some help from Charles d'Orléans. I recorded one from each some time ago:

https://librivox.org/multilingual-poetry-collection-020-by-various/ (Sections 10 and 11)

Best,
Martin

[TriciaG]

Thanks, folks! This will probably give me enough to tweet about. Now, how to present the information...