
Poems about Love
Poetry Please looks at poems about love, presented by Roger McGough.
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By ee cummings
From Complete Poems 1904-1962
Published by Liveright 1994
Love's Philosophy
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
From Shelley Complete poetical Works
Published by Oxford Paperbacks 1971
Not Love Perhaps
By ASJ Tessimond
From Collected Poems
Published by Bloodaxe 1985
Love's Insight
By Robert Winnett
From Poems for Weddings
Published by Penguin 2004
In a Bath Teashop
By John Betjeman
From The Best of Betjeman
Published by Penguin 1978
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
By John Donne
From Donne
Published by Everyman’s Library 1995
The World as Meditation
By Wallace Stevens
From The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Published by Vintage
In Paris With you
By James Fenton
From Selected Poems
Published by Penguin 2006
Love Without Hope
By Robert Graves
From Collected Poems
Published by Cassell 1975
Without You
By Adrian Henri
From Collected Poems 1967-85
Published by Allison & Busby 1986
Fidelity
By DH Lawrence
From Collected Poems
Published by Penguin 1993
For Dusty
By Arnold Wesker
From All Things Tire of Themselves
Published by Flambard Press 2008
The Invitation
By John Clare
From John Clare, Selected by Paul Farley
Published by faber & faber 2007
The Table
By Stella Rotenberg
From Shards
Published Edinburgh 2003
Velvet Shoes
By Elinor Wylie
Taken from The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Website
The Ring
By Kathleen Raine
From The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine
Published by Golgonooza Press 2000
All You Who Sleep Tonight
By Vikram Seth
From All You Who Sleep Tonight
Published by faber & faber 1990
Credit
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
Broadcasts
- Sun 8 Feb 201516:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 14 Feb 201523:30BBC Radio 4