Against coupling ; Happy ending / Fleur Adcock
Many and more / Maya Angelou
Invitation ; Mary's song / Marion Angus
Kiss'd yestreen / Anonymous
Variations on the word love ; IS/NOT ; More and more / Margaret Atwood
Werena my heart licht I wad dee / Lady Grizel Baillie
To Cupid / Joanna Baillie
Do not make things too easy / Martha Baird
Advice to her son on marriage / Mary Barber
To my young lover / Jane Barker
The faithful wife / Patricia Beer
Love's witness ; To Alexis in answer to his poem against fruition ; Song ; To Lysander ; The disappointment ; Oh, how the hand the lover ought to prize ; Angellica's lament ; Love arm'd ; The willing mistriss / Aphra Behn
Now I have nothing / Stella Benson
The courtship / Ann Beresford
Wrestling / Louisa S. Bevington
The siller croun ; O Donald! Ye are just the man ; Auld Robin Forbes / Susanna Blamire
Once we played / Mathilde Blind
The feather / Lilian Bowes Lyon
To my dear and loving husband ; Letter to her husband absent upon public employment / Anne Bradstreet
Silent is the house (extract) ; Love and friendship / Emily Brontë
Sonnets from the Portuguese : XXXVII ; XXII ; VI ; XLIII ; V ; XIV / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A lynmouth widow / Amelia Josephine Burr
Chloe and Myra (extract) / Sophia Burrell
The wish ; Song / Mary Chudleigh
The vain advice ; The caution / Catherine Cockburn
Marriage ; A moment ; Jealousy / Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
I will not give thee all my heart / Grace Hazard Conkling
Love me at last / Alice Corbin
The avenue / Frances Cornford
Douglas, Douglas, tender and true / Dinah Maria Craik
Poem for Sigmund ; Last testaments (extract) ; So this is love / Lorna Crozier
Giving / Nora E. Cunningham
Thread / Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
Love song / Mary Carolyn Davies
Solitude / Babette Deutsch
Why do I love you, sir? ; 'Tis customary as we part ; My life closed twice ; He fumbles at your soul / Emily Dickinson
The request of Alexis / Sarah Dixon
No, go on ; At Les Deux Magots / Maura Dooley
Oppenheim's cup and saucer / Carol Ann Duffy
Haikus (extract) ; 'I am beset with a dream of fair woman' / Maureen Duffy
My dearest dust / Lady Catherine Dyer
How Lisa loved the king (extract) ; Felix Holt, the radical (extracts) / George Eliot
On Monsieur's departure ; When I was fair and young / Elizabeth I
To one that asked me why I lov'd J.G. ; To J.G. on the news of his marriage ; First farewell to J.G. ; To my rival / 'Ephelia'
Gifts / Juliana Horatia Ewing
When last we parted / Catherine Maria Fanshawe
And on my eyes dark sleep by night ; Ah me, if I grew sweet to man ; Second thoughts / Michael Field
A song ; A letter to Daphnis / Ann Finch
To speak of my influences / Jean Garrigue
Uphold me ; At a reception / Karen Gershon
The truce / Stella Gibbons
Song of obstacles ; Hesitate to call / Louise Glück
A prayer for indifference (extract) / France Greville
The unfortunate damsel / Mrs. Fleetwood Habergham
The wine is drunk / Gwen Harwood
Love's advocate / Phoebe Hesketh
Loving you ; Women ; Night-piece ; Do you not know / Frances Horovitz
Two truths ; Tides / Helen Hunt Jackson
First love ; Thinking of love ; One flesh / Elizabeth Jennings
On jealousy / Esther Johnson
Parable of the four-poster ; Colder / Erica Jong
Body language ; Not-loving ; Airing the chapel ; Stocking up / Sylvia Kantaris
A petition / Frances Anne Kemble
Pastoral dialogue / Anne Killigrew
The art of coquetry (extract) / Charlotte Lennox
The sea's wash in the hollow of the heart ; The quest ; Hymn to Eros / Denise Levertov
On the threshold / Amy Levy
Auld Robin Gray / Anne Lindsay
The hickie / Liz Lochhead
The other woman / Marion Lomax
Carrefour ; The bungler ; The taxi / Amy Lowell
Open secrets / Gwendolyn MacEwen
Perfect timing ; The fall ; Spilt milk / Sarah Maguire
Song / Mary de la Riviere Manley
Secret flowers ; The meeting / Katherine Mansfield
Accoutrement ; I must be able to protect you ; I want to love you very much / 'Marnia'
From the telephone / Florence Ripley Mastin
Midcentury love letter / Phyllis McGinley
The farmer's bride ; Sea love / Charlotte Mew
Renouncement / Alice Meynell
Sonnet X ; Sonnet II ; Sonnet WLI / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Aspects of love (extract) / Ruth Miller
Of earthly love / Susanna Valentine Mitchell
'My true love hath my heart' / Naomi Mitchison
Fire us with ice, burn us with snow ; Verses written on her death-bed at Bath to her husband in London / Mary Monk
An answer to a love-letter ; To a lady making love ; On the death of Mrs. Bowes ; Between your sheets ; A man in love ; The lover : a ballad / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The humble wish / Mrs. B-ll lM-rt-n
Villeggiature ; The kiss ; Appeal / Edith Nesbit
Configurations / Grace Nichols
The connoisseuse of slugs / Sharon Olds
I made a house of houselessness / Rose O'Neill
Social note ; Comment ; Unfortunate coincidence ; Prophetic soul ; Symphony recital / Dorothy Parker
To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship ; To one persuading a lady to marriage / Katherine Philips
Song of the fucked duck / Marge Piercy
A song / Laetitia Pilkington
Love letter ; Spinster / Sylvia Plath
Women are different ... ; Vicious circle / Marsha Prescod
Love-poem / Kathleen Raine
Two songs ; My mouth hovers across your breasts / Adrienne Rich
Sonnet / Maimie A. Richardson
The letter / Elizabeth Riddell
We who have loved / Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Sonnet ; A birthday ; Remember ; Echo ; Worth dying for / Christina Rossetti
Upon the death of her husband (extract) / Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Double bed / Carol Rumens
To my heavenly charmer ; Clio (extract) / Martha Sansom
Letter to Miss E.B. on marriage (extract) / Mary Savage
Lines, written on seeing my husband's picture / Anna Sawyer
Ettrick / Lady John Scott
I remember ; From the garden / Anne Sexton
Stanzas / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Passion (extract) ; The old man / Penelope Shuttle
Dead love / Elizabeth Siddal
Heart and mind / Edith Sitwell
Infelice ; Freddy ; Conviction (iv) ; Autumn / Stevie Smith
love u.s.a. / Kathleen Spivack
The storm / Margaret Stanley-Wrench
Sous-entendu / Anne Stevenson
Encounter / Marion Strobel
In the orchard / Muriel Stuart
He that none can capture / May Swenson
I would live in your love ; The gift ; The look ; Those who love ; The flight / Sara Teasdale
Remedia Amoris ; The forsaken WIFE ; To Colindra / Elizabeth Thomas
On loving once and loving often / Elizabeth Tollet
Story of a hotel room / Rosemary Tonks
A valentine (extract from) / Elizabeth Trefusis
Hail, blushing goddess Spring! / Esther Vanhomrigh
The honeymoon is over / Judith Viorst
In recompense / Eda Lou Walton
Vision / May Thielgaard Watts
The mortal lease / Edith Wharton
The slighted lady ; Paradox ; The fired pot / Anna Wickham
Attraction ; The way of it ; Friendship after love / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Youth and maidenhood (extract) / Sarah Williams
Winter / Sheila Wingfield
Sonnet for Christmas / Judith Wright
The disappointed wife / Mehetabel Wright
Cupid lost ; Song ; Urania (extract) / Lady Mary Wroth.