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    The Many Faces of Love: What the Greatest Love Poems in English Say About Love
    The Many Faces of Love: What the Greatest Love Poems in English Say About Love
    The Many Faces of Love: What the Greatest Love Poems in English Say About Love
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    The Many Faces of Love: What the Greatest Love Poems in English Say About Love

    By Anne Kinsey

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    For hopeless romantics who love the lyrical poetry of past centuries, here is a look at the classic love poems and what they say about love.

    As the great poets know, love is not all a bed of roses. There is heartbreak and desolation, as well as hearts soaring like angels and stories of great love.

    Download a sample, start reading and enjoy – or send to that special person in your life who loves romantic poetry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnne Kinsey
    Release dateFeb 4, 2012
    ISBN9781465872562
    The Many Faces of Love: What the Greatest Love Poems in English Say About Love

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      The Many Faces of Love - Anne Kinsey

      The Many Faces of Love

      What the Greatest LOVE Poems

      in English Say About LOVE

      by Anne Kinsey

      Copyright © 2012 by Anne Kinsey

      All rights reserved.

      Published by Castell Books

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      Table of Contents

      When Love is Fleeting

      When Love is Seductive

      When Love is Joyful

      When Love is Forbidden

      When Love Is Perfect

      About Sweet and Twenty?

      Other Books by Anne Kinsey

      Taking the stages of love out of order, this first poem looks at a love which is exquisite and delightful, but fleeting. Written in classical Tamil more than two thousand years ago, this poem goes to show that women falling in love with elusive men who offer thrills and romance but refuse to be tied down is nothing new:

      He is from those mountains

      where the black-faced monkey,

      playing in the sun

      rolls the wild peacock eggs

      on the rocks.

      Yes, his love is always good

      as you say, my friend,

      but only for those strong enough

      to bear it,

      who will not cry themselves out

      or think anything of it

      when he leaves.

      The man in the poem is primitive and sensuous and playful, as suggested by the image of a black-faced monkey playing in the sun. He is from those mountains, a place remote and elevated. He toys with fragile objects, as suggested by the description of a monkey rolling a peacock’s eggs on the rocks. The object he toys with is not only fragile, but, like a peacock egg, has the potential of developing into something beautiful.

      To the unfortunate woman in love with him, his love is always good. But, at the height of the romance while the thrills are greatest and the woman is very much in love, he leaves. The final line consisting of only three words stands in contrast to the earlier playful

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