The Language of Love

Anne Harvey

About the book

An anthology of beautiful, funny and unusual poems and songs from across centuries and cultures, all celebrating love. All the various stages and moods of love are featured, such as first love, lost love, marriage and love, and falling out of love. Includes poets such as Burns, Shakespeare, Wendy Cope, Adrian Henri, Dorothy Parker, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Jennings and Cole Porter, to name but a few.

Love is Like a Dizziness

O, Love, love, love!

Love is like a dizziness;

It winna let a poor body

Gang about his biziness!

James Hogg (1770–1835)

‘The joy of Harvey anthologies is the way they keep turning up poems you love but can’t quite remember’ Signal


Publication Date
21 January 2005

Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books

Book Type
Hardback

ISBN
9781405047722

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