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Love Poems by Famous Authors

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)

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The Lay of the Last Minstrel (Laurie Banza)
A Ditty by Sir Philip Sidney (Laurie Banza)
On a Girdle by Edmund Waller (Soeun (Kelly) Park)
Love alters not by William Shakespeare (Soeun (Kelly) Park)
At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray (Soeun (Kelly) Park)
Britain's Ida by Edmund Spenser (Laurie Banza)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Group)
To Celia by Ben Jonson (nighthawks)
Why so Wan and Pale? by Sir John Suckling (nighthawks)
A Ma Future by Edwin Arnold (czandra)
Serenade by Thomas Hood (Laurie Banza)
Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns (Kerry Adams)
Highland Mary by Robert Burns (Kerry Adams)
Come, Rest in this Bosom by Thomas Moore (nighthawks)
She was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth (Laurie Banza)
She walks in Beauty by Lord Byron (Greg Giordano)
Ruth by Thomas Hood (nighthawks)
When we Two Parted by Lord Byron (Laurie Banza)
To the Lady Hamilton by Hon. William Robert Spencer (nighthawks)
Angel and Woman by Thomas Parnell (nighthawks)
Immortality of Love by Robert Southey (nighthawks)
From " The Angel in the House " by Coventry Patmore (czandra)
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns (Cheree Buesing)
Drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley (kaylawhy)
The Indian Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley (czandra)
To Lucasta, On going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace (Kerry Adams)
Tis Sweet to think by Thomas Moore (czandra)
The Evening Time by A.C.C. (Laurie Banza)
Lines by William Wordsworth (Greg Giordano)
Eros by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nathali Carrera)
The Day-Dream by Alfred Tennyson (Nathali Carrera)
The Flower o' Dumblane by Robert Tannahill (nighthawks)
When Sun are in the Quiet Skies by Edward Bulwer (kaylawhy)
I.ove's Thread of Gold by Jean Ingelow (nbvoices)
Millais's "Huguenots " by London Spectator (Alan Mapstone)
Good-Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Greg Giordano)
Hearts by Adelaide Anne Procter (Izzy Barbieri)
A Heart for Every One by Charles Swain (nighthawks)
I waited till the Twilight by Charles Swain (Laurie Banza)
Rest from All the Year Round (nighthawks)
Twin Stars Aloft by Charles Kingsley (Greg Giordano)
Love took me softly by the Hand by Anonymous (Laurie Banza)
Song, “Nay but you...” by Robert Browning (Greg Giordano)
Song, “When Sparrows build...” by Jean Ingelow (czandra)
Destiny by Edwin Arnold (Kerry Adams)
Light by Francis W. Bourdillon (Laurie Banza)
Cupid's Arrow by Eliza Cook (Izzy Barbieri)
Two Lovers by George Eliot (Henry K. Noble)
The Low-backed Car by Samuel Lover (czandra)
Come into the Garden, Maud by Alfred Tennyson (Alan Mapstone)
Sonnets by Christina G. Rossetti (Alan Mapstone)
Because by Adelaide Anne Procter (Henry K. Noble)
The Banks of Doon by Robert Burns (Kerry Adams)
I Love My Jean by Robert Burns (Kerry Adams)
A Valediction by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (czandra)
A Chain by Adelaide Anne Procter (Henry K. Noble)
Love Wakes And Weeps by Sir Walter Scott (Henry K. Noble)
In Three Days by Robert Browning (Henry K. Noble)
The Bonnie Wee Thing by Robert Burns (Kerry Adams)
Annie Laurie by Douglas of Finland (Alan Mapstone)
I'll Never Love Thee More by James Graham, Marquis of Montress (Henry K. Noble)
Rosalind's Madrigal by Thomas Lodge (Doreen Marcotte)
Song, “Pack clouds away...” by Thomas Heywood (Doreen Marcotte)
Song, “Ask me no more...” by Thomas Carew (Carl Hicks)
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love by Christopher Marlowe (Alan Mapstone)
Move Eastward, Happy Earth by Alfred Tennyson (Greg Giordano)
Serenade, “Now the toils of day are over...” by William Makepeace Thackeray (jenno)
My Star by Robert Browning (Izzy Barbieri)
When Thou Art Near Me by Lady John Scott (Laurie Banza)
One Morning, Oh! So Early by Jean Ingelow (czandra)
Before the Daybreak by Francis W. Bourdillon (jenno)
A Warning by Adelaide Anne Procter (jenno)
To Mary by William Makepeace Thackeray (jenno)
The Invitation by Percy Bysshe Shelley (jenno)
The Miller's Daughter by Alfred Tennyson (czandra)
A Voice by the Cedar Tree by Alfred Tennyson (Larry Wilson)
Divided by Jean Ingelow (czandra)
A Bird-Song by Christina G. Rossetti and Untitled by Anonymous (mleigh)
To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace (jenno)
Song from the Princess by Alfred Tennyson (dc)
Song of the Violet by William Makepeace Thackeray (Audrey Fairchild)
Love in a Life by Robert Browning (Alan Mapstone)
Love from Chambers' Journal (nighthawks)
Life in a Love by Robert Browning (Alan Mapstone)
Not ours the Vows by Bernard Barton (nighthawks)
For the Future by Adelaide Anne Procter (czandra)
Comfort from “All The Year Round” (Audrey Fairchild)
Seven Times Three. Love by Jean Ingelow (Andrea O'Donnell)
The Violet by Sir Walter Scott (mleigh)
Song, “In Love, if Love be Love...” by Alfred Tennyson (Audrey Fairchild)
One Way of Love by Robert Browning (Greg Giordano)
Switzerland by Matthew Arnold (jenno)
Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning (Greg Giordano)
Song, “Oh, say not, my Love...” by Sir Walter Scott (Audrey Fairchild)
Wisteria from “All the Year Round” (Izzy Barbieri)
Sonnet by Michael Angelo, translated by William Wordsworth (Alan Mapstone)
Married Lovers by Jean Ingelow (Henry K. Noble)
How Many Times by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Henry K. Noble)
James Lee's Wife by Robert Browning (Henry K. Noble)
The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunninghom (Henry K. Noble)
My Lady Singing by Aubrey de Vere (Henry K. Noble)
Madrigal by Anonymous (Izzy Barbieri)
York and Lancaster by Anonymous (Kerry Adams)
Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell (Lynda Marie Neilson)
I Met Wi' Her I Luved Yestereen by William Motherwell (Lynda Marie Neilson)
A Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne Procter (redrun)
A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter (redrun)
True or False by Adelaide Anne Procter (nbvoices)
I Saw Thee Weep by Lord Byron (Paul Baguley)
Origin of Love by Lord Byron (Paul Baguley)
The Dream by Lord Byron (Paul Baguley)
Love by S. T. Coleridge (dc)
All for Love by Lord Byron (Filoria)
The Lost Love by William Wordsworth (Izzy Barbieri)
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” by William Shakespeare (Paul Baguley)
“She is not fair to outward view” by H. Coleridge (LaurieB)
“Music When Soft Voices Die” by P.B.Shelley (LaurieB)
The True Beauty by T. Carew (mleigh)
To Dianeme by R. Herrick (nbvoices)
“Go, lovely Rose” by E. Waller (Andrea O'Donnell)
Blind Love by William Shakespeare (Izzy Barbieri)
“One word is too often profaned” by P.B.Shelley (AzaseahRose)
Where Shall The Lover Rest by Sir W. Scott (AzaseahRose)
A Birthday by Christina Georgiana Rossetti (mleigh)
From " The Winter's Tale" by William Shakespeare (Izzy Barbieri)
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Larry Wilson)
From " The Epithalamlum " by Edmund Spenser (Lynda Marie Neilson)
A Complaint by William Wordsworth (Izzy Barbieri)
To Anthea by Robert Herrick (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Passages from " Paradise Lost " by John Milton (Alan Mapstone)
Song, “I prithee send me back my heart” by Sir John Suckling (Audrey Fairchild)
A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Audrey Fairchild)
Lines by John Keats (Larry Wilson)
If To Thy Heart I Were As Near by William Motherwell (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Caeli by Francis W. Bourdillon (nbvoices)
Gathered Roses by Francis W. Bourdillon (nbvoices)
The Time I've Lost In Wooing by Thomas Moore (nbvoices)
John Anderson, my Jo by Robert Burns (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Faded Leaves by Matthew Arnold (Alan Mapstone)
Urania by Matthew Arnold (Alan Mapstone)
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Tennyson (Alan Mapstone)
Guinevere by Tennyson (Alan Mapstone)
Altho' Thou Maun Never Be Mine by Robert Burns (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Changes by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Larry Wilson)
Two Loves by Adelaide Anne Procter (redrun)
King and Slave by Adelaide Anne Procter (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Love by Mrs. Browning (Larry Wilson)
Fidelis by Adelaide Anne Procter (Lynda Marie Neilson)
A Love Token by Adelaide Anne Procter (redrun)
To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns (Kerry Adams)
Margaret Alone At Her Spinning-Wheel by Goethe (Alan Mapstone)
Margaret to Dolcino by Charles Kingsley (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Love's Omnipresence by J. Sylvester (stepheather)
Inclusions by Mrs. Browning (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Insufficiency by Mrs. Browning (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Im Wunderschonen Mai by Heinrich Heine, translated by Sir Theodore Martin (Kerry Adams)
Wenn Ich In Deine Augen Seh by Heinrich Heine, translated by Alma Strettell (nighthawks)
“Thous lovest me not” by Heinrich Heine, translated by Mrs. Browning (nighthawks)
Du Bist Wie Eime Blume by Heinrich Heine, translated by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (Kerry Adams)
Ad Finem by Heinrich Heine, translated by Mrs. Browning (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Saphire Sind Die Augen Dein by Heinrich Heine, translated by Alma Strettell (Kerry Adams)
Tristram and Iseult I by Matthew Arnold (Group)
Tristram and Iseult II by Matthew Arnold (Group)
Tristram and Iseult III by Matthew Arnold (Alan Mapstone)
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