To You with Love ed. Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis (Macrae Smith Company, 1969, 8255-5520-5, 287pp, hc, an)
Subtitled “A Treasury of Great Romantic Literature”.
- 11 · Sixteen · Maureen Daly · ss Senior Scholastic 1938
- 16 · One Day in April · Anita Rowe Block · ss Cosmopolitan April 1947
- 24 · My Longing to Talk to Someone · Anne Frank · ex from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Doubleday, 1952
translated from the Dutch (Het Achterhuis, Contact Publishing, 1947).
- 43 · Still, Still So · Mark Van Doren · ss Park East November 1952
- 57 · Mr. Cornelius, I Love You · Jessamyn West · ss Collier’s November 22 1952
- 71 · The Love Letter · Jack Finney · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 1 1959
- 85 · The Gift of the Magi · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World December 10 1905, as “Gifts of the Magi”
- 91 · Sam Weller’s Valentine · Charles Dickens · ss The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall, 1837
- 98 · How Do I Love Thee: A Gathering of Love Poetry
- _99 · How Do I Love Thee? · Elizabeth Barrett Browning · pm Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Chapman and Hall, 1850
- _100 · Song (“How Many Times Do I Love Thee, Dear”) · Thomas Lovell Beddoes · pm The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes by Thomas Lovell Beddoes, W. Pickering, 1851
- _101 · So, We’ll Go No More A-Roving · Lord George Gordon Byron · pm Letters and Journals of Lord Byron ed. Thomas Moore, J. & J. Harper, 1830
- _102 · To My Dear and Loving Husband · Anne Bradstreet · pm Several Poems by Anne Bradstreet, John Foster, 1678
- _103 · One Word Is Too Often Profaned · Percy Bysshe Shelley · pm Posthumous Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824
- _104 · Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight? · Christopher Marlowe · pm from “Hero and Leander”, 1598
- _105 · Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms · Thomas Moore · pm A Selection of Irish Melodies: Volume 2 by Thomas Moore, J. Power, 1807
- _106 · It Was a Lover and His Lass · William Shakespeare · pm from As You Like It, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies by William Shakespeare, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623
- _107 · La Belle Dame Sans Merci · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works of John Keats by John Keats, Edward Moxon, 1848
written in 1819. A somewhat different version was published in The Indicator, May 10, 1820.
- _109 · If You Were Coming in the Fall · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1890
- _110 · Secret Love · John Clare · pm The Life of John Clare by Frederick Martin, Macmillan, 1865, as “I Hid My Love”
- _111 · Never Seek to Tell Thy Love · William Blake · pm Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist, Macmillan and Co., 1863
- _112 · Open the Door to Me, Oh! · Robert Burns · pm Poetry; Original and Selected v2 #3, 1796
- _113 · Give All to Love · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Munroe and Company, 1847
- 115 · The First Prom’s the Hardest · Hildegarde Dolson · ex from We Shook the Family Tree, Random House, 1946
- 123 · The Library Window · Mrs. Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1896
- 163 · The Flower Alphabet of Love · Susan Belcher & Seon Manley · ms
- 170 · The Singing Lesson · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield, Constable, 1922
- 176 · Lady Daisy and Her Crazy Dog · William Saroyan · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 31 1958, as “For Love of Daisy”
- 186 · A Simple Heart · Gustave Flaubert · nv Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert, 1877
translated from the French (“Un coeur simple”, Trois contes, G. Charpentier, 1877).
- 215 · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- 222 · The Cliché Expert Testifies on Love · Frank Sullivan · hu Lilliput January 1940
- 227 · The Oval Portrait · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine April 1842, as “Life in Death”
- 231 · Love’s Young Dream · Seán O’Faoláin · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 3 1959
- 258 · Laughter · Colette; translated by Enid McLeod & Una Troubridge · ex from My Mother’s House and Sido, Secker & Warburg, 1953
translated from the French (La Maison de Claudine, J. Ferenczi et Fils, 1922).
- 261 · “I Am Living Today in Yesterday”: A Gathering of Great Love Letters
- _262 · “My Sweet Girl…” · John Keats · lt (r); letters to Fanny Brawne.
- _267 · “My Own Love…” · Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin · lt (r); letters to Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- _268 · “I Love Your Verses with All My Heart” · Robert Browning · lt (r) [Ref. Elizabeth Barrett Browning]; letter from Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett and her reply.
- _272 · “To Love Heloise Truly Is to Leave Her…” · Abelard · lt (r); letter to Heloise.
- _277 · “My Love…” · Nathaniel Hawthorne · lt (r); letter to Sophia Peabody.
- _278 · “Neither Sea, nor Land, nor Death Can Extinguish…” · William Penn · lt (r); letter to his family.
- 280 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg
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