Poems for Honeymooners

Honeymoons are a relatively modern concept in the western world, dating from the 19th Century and have since become a multi-billion dollar industry turning the beginning of wedded bliss into a smorgsboard of 'must have this' and 'must do that'. However, celebrating a marriage is something we perhaps all feel should be a more intimate occasion. After all this part of the journey is possibly unique as well as universal and timeless. Sex, possibly for the first time, is now an expression of the wedded state, cementing and reframing the relationship as a new couple. Within the lines of this volume are perfect poems for those on such a journey, whether it a romantic holiday setting or relaxed at home as our classic poets revel in the sensual, the sexy and above all the love for that very special chosen person in our lives. Our verse includes those from Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rossetti, W B Yeats, Khalil Gibran, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and many more.01 - Poetry for Honeymooners - An Introduction02 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats03 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns04 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson05 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox06 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson07 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne08 - Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti09 - The Sunne Rising by John Donne10 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran11 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges12 - The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe13 - The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn14 - A Nuptial Verse to Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy by Robert Herrick15 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson02 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley17 - Her Breast is Fit For Pearls by Emily Dickinson18 - Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar19 - The Flea by John Donne20 - To Celia by Ben Jonson21 - She Lay Naked All in Bed - Anonymous22 - Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick23 - Amores - Book I Elegy V - Corinna in an Afternoon by Ovid24 - For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin Wu Zao25 - The Kiss by Charlotte Dacre26 - That Kiss By Daniel Sheehan27 - The First Kiss Of Love by Lord Byron28 - First Love by John Clare29 - Longing by Matthew Arnold30 - Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson31 - Sonnet IV - Lovesight by Dante Gabriel Rossetti32 - Love is Enough by William Morris33 - Lips and Eyes by Thomas Carew34 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron35 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face by Edna St Vincent Millay36 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller37 - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day by William Shakespeare38 - Beauty That is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson39 - Bright Star by John Keats40 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke41 - A Bridal Song by John Ford42 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg43 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch44 - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran45 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale46 - Unending Love by Tagore47 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence48 - June, a Tale by William Cowper49 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear50 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte51 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning52 - Terminus by Edith Wharton53 - The Good Morrow by John Donne54 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning