Presents more than sixty poems and letters of love by such writers as John Keats, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, and Rumi, covering the beginnings of love, its duration, its end, and remembrance.
Contains a collection of emotional, spiritual, and erotic poems written by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu during Japan's Heian era, which lasted from 794 to 1185.
Contains forty-one love poems by William Butler Yeats written early in his career, many inspired by his unrequited passion for Irish nationalist Maud Gonne.
Presents the forty-four sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning during her courtship with Robert, and features excerpts from the love letters exchanged between the couple during the time the poems were composed.