With over 325 poems by as many poets from around the world, from Shakespeare to Collins, from Szymborska to Neruda to Li Po, this extensive anthology celebrates love in all its many guises. Here are poems of romantic love, the ideal of love, the hurt of love, lost or unrequited. Here are poems of friendship, surprise, celebration, and consolation. Here together are well-known, much-loved verse and little-known surprises.