Description Details
Ovid's guidance to aspiring lovers, in the tricky game of love.

Description Details
Ovid's help for lovers trying to escape from love.

Table of Contents Details
...an Also Farm, Hunt, or Travel Part IV: But Forget Witchcraft! Part V: Contemplate her Defects Part VI: Now About Sex Part VII: Have More Than One Lover Part VIII: Be Cool With Her Part IX: Or Sate Yourself With Her Part X: Forget Her, and Don’t Be Alone Part XI: Now, Keep Away From Her Part XII: Don’t Weaken Part XIII: Get Rid of all Reminders Part XIV: Avoid th...

Description Details
...A modernized translation of the poem Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy....

Table of Contents Details
BOOK I - Troilus's Love BOOK II - Love Encouraged BOOK III - The Consummation BOOK IV - The Separation BOOK V - The Betrayal

Description Details
...It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse. The prose creates the illusion of narrative continuity between the poems....

Excerpt Details
‘No joy in corrupting Venus to a blind motion: know, if you do not, the eyes are the guides of Love.’ Book II.15:11-12

Table of Contents Details
.... Song of the Barren Orange Tree. The Moon Wakes. Farewell Romance de la Luna, Luna Romance Sonámbulo The Unfaithful Wife Gacela of Unexpected Love Casida de la Rosa Casida of the Dark Doves ‘Ay voz secreta del amor oscuro!’ Every Song...

Table of Contents Details
...mous Thinking Mate -Asclepiades Tryphera -Bacchylides Happiness Ode to Hekate The Test of Virtue -Hedylus Let Us Drink -Ibycus No Rest for Love -Ion of Chios Untamable Child -Melanippides Wine after Water -Poseidippus Archianax -Praxilla Beware To Adonis You Look Great -Sappho Ode to Aphrodite Abandoned And as for Me But I Sleep Alone It Seems to...

Description Details
This version of the Songs and Sonnets follows the 1635 edition, excluding only a single poem ‘Deare love, continue nice and chaste’.

Table of Contents Details
...The Flea The Good-Morrow Song Woman’s Constancy The Undertaking The Sun Rising The Indifferent Love’s Usury The Canonization The Triple Fool Lover’s Infiniteness Song The Legacy A Fever Air and Angels Break of Day Another of the Same The Anniversary A Valediction of My Name, in the Window Twickenham Garden ...

Description Details
A new translation of his tale of thwarted love set in Moorish Granada.

Description Details
Love and religion in the wilds of America.

Table of Contents Details
...Jacopo Da Lentino (c1200-1250) I have placed my heart in God’s service Pier Della Vigne (1190-1249?) Love in whom I hope and desire, Anonymous Go now my love, goodbye now, Guido Cavalcanti (c1255-1300) You have, in you, the leaves and flowers Who is this that comes and all admire her, Fresh new rose O, my lady, have y...

Table of Contents Details
...d of the Three Rivers Paso (The Images of the Passion) The Dawn A Singing Casida of the Recumbent Woman Gacela of the Flight Night of Insomniac Love Gacela of the Terrible Presence Sonnet of the Wreath of Roses The Poet asks his Love to write Song Pueblo Landscape The Prisoner Remanso, Final Song Index of First Lines...

Table of Contents Details
... Your Orange Hair in the Void of the World Nusch Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal ‘You Rise the Water Unfolds’ I Only Wish to Love You The World is Blue As an Orange We Have Created the Night Even When We Sleep To Marc Chagall Air Vif Certitude We two ‘At Dawn I Love You’ ‘She Looks Into Me…’ A Single Smile Index of First Lines...

Table of Contents Details
... the beautiful moon’ ‘He is dying, Cytherea, your tender Adonis,’ ‘Some say horsemen, some say warriors’ ‘Stand up and look at me, face to face’ ‘Love shook my heart’ ‘He’s equal with the Gods, that man’ ‘But you, O Dika, wreathe lovely garlands in your hair,’ Fragments, on Love and Desire Fragments, on the Muses ‘I have a daughter, golden’ ‘Hesperus, you bring b...

Table of Contents Details
...Then With The Dead Two Mirror of Light World Does Not Wait All Mountain, No Eye Thesis What We Do Little Love Song Hazel The Gate Wait Bark Icon Not To By Now Night-Song On Judgement Day Mind Pass Fire Passing Alone Exchange OK I See At the End of the Night Transmute Bone, Ash, Gold Going Through Light Fate ...

Description Details
The ten bucolic poems freely imitating Theocritus' Idylls, and creating a pastoral world of love and song.

Table of Contents Details
...‘Guido, i’ vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io’ Guido, I wish that Lapo, you, and I, ‘Voi che savete ragionar d’Amore’ You who know the languages of Love, ‘Io son venuto al punto de la rota’ I have reached that point of the circuit ‘Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d’ombra’ - Sestina I have come, alas, to the great circle of shadow, ‘Amor, tu vedi ben che questa donn...

Description Details
Selected poems on love and other personal themes.

Table of Contents Details
...ur Voice, Its Gentleness’ Elegy Final Sonnet It Did Not Want To Be ‘The Cemetery Is Near’ ‘What Does The Wind Of Bitterness want’ Waltz Of The Lovers Joined Forever ‘Like A Young Fig Tree’ ‘The Sun, the Rose, and the Child’ ‘Love Ascended Between Us’ The Mouth ‘The Wild-Broom Crowned with Bay, Myrtle, Rose’ Flight Index of First Lines...

Table of Contents Details
...erceptive heart ‘Chi è questa che vèn, ch’ogn’om la mira’ Who is this that comes and all admire her, ‘Li mie' foll' occhi, che prima guardaro’ My lovesick eyes that first gazed ‘Deh, spiriti miei, quando mi vedete’ Ah, my spirit, when you see me ‘L’anima mia vilment’ è sbigotita’ My spirit is so vilely distressed ‘Tu m'hai sì piena di dolor la mente’ You have fil...

Table of Contents Details
...Absence Easy Talking of Power and Love The Beloved Max Ernst Series Obsession Nearer To Us Open Door The Immediate Life Lovely And Lifelike The Season of Loves As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body’s Senses Barely Disfigured In A New Night Fertile ...