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Love Poems by Famous Authors

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A collection of love poems, including the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet, Tristram & Iseult, and selections from many authors including Lord Byron, Robert Burns, Robert Browning, Tennyson, and many more.

Roles in Romeo and Juliet, read by Librivox volunteers:
Romeo: Greg Giordano
Juliet: Irene Rubio
Narrator: Alan Mapstone

Roles in Tristram and Iseult I, read by Librivox volunteers:
Narrator: redrun
Tristram: Greg Giordano
The Page: nighthawks

Roles in Tristram and Iseult II, read by Librivox volunteers:

Narrator: Redrun
Tristram: Greg Giordano
Iseult: Elyse
Huntsman: Alan Mapstone
Dames: stepheather

(Summary by Krista Zaleski)

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Keyword(s): love (323), poems (184), Shakespeare (105), shelley (11), Wordsworth (10), browning (9), emerson (8), burns (8), Thackeray (8), lord byron (7) ... [Show full list]

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	The Lay of the Last Minstrel	Laurie Banza	00:00:47
Play 02	A Ditty by Sir Philip Sidney	Laurie Banza	00:01:13
Play 03	On a Girdle by Edmund Waller	Soeun (Kelly) Park	00:00:45
Play 04	Love alters not by William Shakespeare	Soeun (Kelly) Park	00:00:55
Play 05	At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray	Soeun (Kelly) Park	00:01:10
Play 06	Britain's Ida by Edmund Spenser	Laurie Banza	00:01:00
Play 07	Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare	Group	00:11:25
Play 08	To Celia by Ben Jonson	nighthawks	00:01:19
Play 09	Why so Wan and Pale? by Sir John Suckling	nighthawks	00:01:15
Play 10	A Ma Future by Edwin Arnold	czandra	00:01:51
Play 11	Serenade by Thomas Hood	Laurie Banza	00:01:23
Play 12	Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns	Kerry Adams	00:02:10
Play 13	Highland Mary by Robert Burns	Kerry Adams	00:02:26
Play 14	Come, Rest in this Bosom by Thomas Moore	nighthawks	00:01:33
Play 15	She was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth	Laurie Banza	00:02:13
Play 16	She walks in Beauty by Lord Byron	Greg Giordano	00:01:26
Play 17	Ruth by Thomas Hood	nighthawks	00:01:38
Play 18	When we Two Parted by Lord Byron	Laurie Banza	00:01:47
Play 19	To the Lady Hamilton by Hon. William Robert Spencer	nighthawks	00:01:10
Play 20	Angel and Woman by Thomas Parnell	nighthawks	00:01:21
Play 21	Immortality of Love by Robert Southey	nighthawks	00:01:29
Play 22	From " The Angel in the House " by Coventry Patmore	czandra	00:03:48
Play 23	A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns	Cheree Buesing	00:01:29
Play 24	Drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley	kaylawhy	00:00:48
Play 25	The Indian Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley	czandra	00:01:21
Play 26	To Lucasta, On going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace	Kerry Adams	00:01:10
Play 27	Tis Sweet to think by Thomas Moore	czandra	00:01:36
Play 28	The Evening Time by A.C.C.	Laurie Banza	00:02:27
Play 29	Lines by William Wordsworth	Greg Giordano	00:00:56
Play 30	Eros by Ralph Waldo Emerson	Nathali Carrera	00:00:34
Play 31	The Day-Dream by Alfred Tennyson	Nathali Carrera	00:01:56
Play 32	The Flower o' Dumblane by Robert Tannahill	nighthawks	00:02:37
Play 33	When Sun are in the Quiet Skies by Edward Bulwer	kaylawhy	00:01:18
Play 34	I.ove's Thread of Gold by Jean Ingelow	nbvoices	00:01:25
Play 35	Millais's "Huguenots " by London Spectator	Alan Mapstone	00:04:55
Play 36	Good-Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley	Greg Giordano	00:01:02
Play 37	Hearts by Adelaide Anne Procter	Izzy Barbieri	00:01:11
Play 38	A Heart for Every One by Charles Swain	nighthawks	00:01:42
Play 39	I waited till the Twilight by Charles Swain	Laurie Banza	00:01:30
Play 40	Rest from All the Year Round	nighthawks	00:02:35
Play 41	Twin Stars Aloft by Charles Kingsley	Greg Giordano	00:01:06
Play 42	Love took me softly by the Hand by Anonymous	Laurie Banza	00:01:25
Play 43	Song, “Nay but you...” by Robert Browning	Greg Giordano	00:01:18
Play 44	Song, “When Sparrows build...” by Jean Ingelow	czandra	00:01:47
Play 45	Destiny by Edwin Arnold	Kerry Adams	00:01:08
Play 46	Light by Francis W. Bourdillon	Laurie Banza	00:00:47
Play 47	Cupid's Arrow by Eliza Cook	Izzy Barbieri	00:01:16
Play 48	Two Lovers by George Eliot	Henry K. Noble	00:02:05
Play 49	The Low-backed Car by Samuel Lover	czandra	00:02:14
Play 50	Come into the Garden, Maud by Alfred Tennyson	Alan Mapstone	00:04:27
Play 51	Sonnets by Christina G. Rossetti	Alan Mapstone	00:03:51
Play 52	Because by Adelaide Anne Procter	Henry K. Noble	00:01:51
Play 53	The Banks of Doon by Robert Burns	Kerry Adams	00:01:35
Play 54	I Love My Jean by Robert Burns	Kerry Adams	00:01:28
Play 55	A Valediction by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	czandra	00:02:46
Play 56	A Chain by Adelaide Anne Procter	Henry K. Noble	00:02:50
Play 57	Love Wakes And Weeps by Sir Walter Scott	Henry K. Noble	00:01:04
Play 58	In Three Days by Robert Browning	Henry K. Noble	00:02:21
Play 59	The Bonnie Wee Thing by Robert Burns	Kerry Adams	00:01:32
Play 60	Annie Laurie by Douglas of Finland	Alan Mapstone	00:01:38
Play 61	I'll Never Love Thee More by James Graham, Marquis of Montress	Henry K. Noble	00:01:57
Play 62	Rosalind's Madrigal by Thomas Lodge	Doreen Marcotte	00:01:39
Play 63	Song, “Pack clouds away...” by Thomas Heywood	Doreen Marcotte	00:01:11
Play 64	Song, “Ask me no more...” by Thomas Carew	Carl Hicks	00:01:03
Play 65	The Passionate Shepherd to his Love by Christopher Marlowe	Alan Mapstone	00:01:36
Play 66	Move Eastward, Happy Earth by Alfred Tennyson	Greg Giordano	00:01:04
Play 67	Serenade, “Now the toils of day are over...” by William Makepeace Thackeray	jenno	00:01:08
Play 68	My Star by Robert Browning	Izzy Barbieri	00:00:43
Play 69	When Thou Art Near Me by Lady John Scott	Laurie Banza	00:01:13
Play 70	One Morning, Oh! So Early by Jean Ingelow	czandra	00:01:25
Play 71	Before the Daybreak by Francis W. Bourdillon	jenno	00:01:05
Play 72	A Warning by Adelaide Anne Procter	jenno	00:01:56
Play 73	To Mary by William Makepeace Thackeray	jenno	00:01:00
Play 74	The Invitation by Percy Bysshe Shelley	jenno	00:02:22
Play 75	The Miller's Daughter by Alfred Tennyson	czandra	00:01:08
Play 76	A Voice by the Cedar Tree by Alfred Tennyson	Larry Wilson	00:01:49
Play 77	Divided by Jean Ingelow	czandra	00:07:22
Play 78	A Bird-Song by Christina G. Rossetti and Untitled by Anonymous	mleigh	00:01:49
Play 79	To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace	jenno	00:00:57
Play 80	Song from the Princess by Alfred Tennyson	dc	00:03:18
Play 81	Song of the Violet by William Makepeace Thackeray	Audrey Fairchild	00:01:34
Play 82	Love in a Life by Robert Browning	Alan Mapstone	00:01:21
Play 83	Love from Chambers' Journal	nighthawks	00:02:16
Play 84	Life in a Love by Robert Browning	Alan Mapstone	00:01:30
Play 85	Not ours the Vows by Bernard Barton	nighthawks	00:01:42
Play 86	For the Future by Adelaide Anne Procter	czandra	00:02:09
Play 87	Comfort from “All The Year Round”	Audrey Fairchild	00:02:07
Play 88	Seven Times Three. Love by Jean Ingelow	Andrea O'Donnell	00:02:10
Play 89	The Violet by Sir Walter Scott	mleigh	00:01:09
Play 90	Song, “In Love, if Love be Love...” by Alfred Tennyson	Audrey Fairchild	00:01:14
Play 91	One Way of Love by Robert Browning	Greg Giordano	00:01:32
Play 92	Switzerland by Matthew Arnold	jenno	00:16:35
Play 93	Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning	Greg Giordano	00:04:35
Play 94	Song, “Oh, say not, my Love...” by Sir Walter Scott	Audrey Fairchild	00:01:25
Play 95	Wisteria from “All the Year Round”	Izzy Barbieri	00:02:11
Play 96	Sonnet by Michael Angelo, translated by William Wordsworth	Alan Mapstone	00:01:23
Play 97	Married Lovers by Jean Ingelow	Henry K. Noble	00:03:24
Play 98	How Many Times by Thomas Lovell Beddoes	Henry K. Noble	00:00:56
Play 99	James Lee's Wife by Robert Browning	Henry K. Noble	00:04:09
Play 100	The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunninghom	Henry K. Noble	00:03:13
Play 101	My Lady Singing by Aubrey de Vere	Henry K. Noble	00:01:17
Play 102	Madrigal by Anonymous	Izzy Barbieri	00:00:40
Play 103	York and Lancaster by Anonymous	Kerry Adams	00:00:56
Play 104	Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:06:16
Play 105	I Met Wi' Her I Luved Yestereen by William Motherwell	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:02:04
Play 106	A Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne Procter	redrun	00:02:24
Play 107	A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter	redrun	00:03:05
Play 108	True or False by Adelaide Anne Procter	nbvoices	00:04:13
Play 109	I Saw Thee Weep by Lord Byron	Paul Baguley	00:01:07
Play 110	Origin of Love by Lord Byron	Paul Baguley	00:00:43
Play 111	The Dream by Lord Byron	Paul Baguley	00:12:27
Play 112	Love by S. T. Coleridge	dc	00:04:43
Play 113	All for Love by Lord Byron	Filoria	00:01:23
Play 114	The Lost Love by William Wordsworth	Izzy Barbieri	00:00:40
Play 115	“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” by William Shakespeare	Paul Baguley	00:01:24
Play 116	“She is not fair to outward view” by H. Coleridge	LaurieB	00:01:10
Play 117	“Music When Soft Voices Die” by P.B.Shelley	LaurieB	00:00:57
Play 118	The True Beauty by T. Carew	mleigh	00:01:05
Play 119	To Dianeme by R. Herrick	nbvoices	00:01:00
Play 120	“Go, lovely Rose” by E. Waller	Andrea O'Donnell	00:01:16
Play 121	Blind Love by William Shakespeare	Izzy Barbieri	00:00:54
Play 122	“One word is too often profaned” by P.B.Shelley	AzaseahRose	00:00:42
Play 123	Where Shall The Lover Rest by Sir W. Scott	AzaseahRose	00:01:18
Play 124	A Birthday by Christina Georgiana Rossetti	mleigh	00:01:25
Play 125	From " The Winter's Tale" by William Shakespeare	Izzy Barbieri	00:00:53
Play 126	Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Larry Wilson	00:06:57
Play 127	From " The Epithalamlum " by Edmund Spenser	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:03:04
Play 128	A Complaint by William Wordsworth	Izzy Barbieri	00:00:58
Play 129	To Anthea by Robert Herrick	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:40
Play 130	Passages from " Paradise Lost " by John Milton	Alan Mapstone	00:02:26
Play 131	Song, “I prithee send me back my heart” by Sir John Suckling	Audrey Fairchild	00:01:24
Play 132	A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne	Audrey Fairchild	00:02:25
Play 133	Lines by John Keats	Larry Wilson	00:00:55
Play 134	If To Thy Heart I Were As Near by William Motherwell	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:40
Play 135	Caeli by Francis W. Bourdillon	nbvoices	00:00:46
Play 136	Gathered Roses by Francis W. Bourdillon	nbvoices	00:00:46
Play 137	The Time I've Lost In Wooing by Thomas Moore	nbvoices	00:00:42
Play 138	John Anderson, my Jo by Robert Burns	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:15
Play 139	Faded Leaves by Matthew Arnold	Alan Mapstone	00:03:00
Play 140	Urania by Matthew Arnold	Alan Mapstone	00:02:03
Play 141	Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Tennyson	Alan Mapstone	00:02:51
Play 142	Guinevere by Tennyson	Alan Mapstone	00:05:07
Play 143	Altho' Thou Maun Never Be Mine by Robert Burns	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:13
Play 144	Changes by Robert Bulwer Lytton	Larry Wilson	00:02:04
Play 145	Two Loves by Adelaide Anne Procter	redrun	00:02:00
Play 146	King and Slave by Adelaide Anne Procter	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:29
Play 147	Love by Mrs. Browning	Larry Wilson	00:01:05
Play 148	Fidelis by Adelaide Anne Procter	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:02:43
Play 149	A Love Token by Adelaide Anne Procter	redrun	00:01:30
Play 150	To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns	Kerry Adams	00:02:38
Play 151	Margaret Alone At Her Spinning-Wheel by Goethe	Alan Mapstone	00:01:48
Play 152	Margaret to Dolcino by Charles Kingsley	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:10
Play 153	Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:06
Play 154	Love's Omnipresence by J. Sylvester	stepheather	00:01:05
Play 155	Inclusions by Mrs. Browning	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:26
Play 156	Insufficiency by Mrs. Browning	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:01:22
Play 157	Im Wunderschonen Mai by Heinrich Heine, translated by Sir Theodore Martin	Kerry Adams	00:01:01
Play 158	Wenn Ich In Deine Augen Seh by Heinrich Heine, translated by Alma Strettell	nighthawks	00:01:03
Play 159	“Thous lovest me not” by Heinrich Heine, translated by Mrs. Browning	nighthawks	00:00:58
Play 160	Du Bist Wie Eime Blume by Heinrich Heine, translated by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker	Kerry Adams	00:01:00
Play 161	Ad Finem by Heinrich Heine, translated by Mrs. Browning	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:00:58
Play 162	Saphire Sind Die Augen Dein by Heinrich Heine, translated by Alma Strettell	Kerry Adams	00:01:25
Play 163	Tristram and Iseult I by Matthew Arnold	Group	00:20:58
Play 164	Tristram and Iseult II by Matthew Arnold	Group	00:12:59
Play 165	Tristram and Iseult III by Matthew Arnold	Alan Mapstone	00:15:39

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