The beating heart, the drumbeat, the very force of life. What then when we say ‘it breaks’? ‘I’m heart-broken’? Few of us escape a life without some measure of heartache and the pain it causes.
In this volume we give full rein to our classic poets across the centuries from Shakespeare and Aphra Behn to Rupert Brooke, Edna St Vincent Millay, A E Housman and continue through Radclyffe Hall, Emily Dickinson and Oscar Wilde.
It is a journey through feelings, thoughts and expressions in words that we instantly understand, claim as our own and yet reveal other layers, other avenues of thought.
Whether to soothe the soul, to reconcile with a different perhaps fractured reality, and come to terms with dejection, rejection or vent with bitterness, rage and seek revenge, our poets have words and lines of verse to help balm, repair and better understand these emotional times.
01 - 50 Shades of a Broken Heart - An Introduction
02 - Ebb by Edna St Vincent Millay
03 - Heart We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson-
04 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling
05 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne
06 - My Own Heart, Let Me Have More, Have Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins
07 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt
08 - The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by John Bodenham
09 - Love Arm'd by Aphra Behn
10 - A Shropshire Lad LIV - With Rue My Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman
11 - A Poor Torn Heart, a Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson
12 - Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Proctor
13 - A Careless Heart by Isaac Rosenberg
17 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew
15 - A Fallen Leaf by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
16 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde
17 - A Pause of Thought by Christina Georgina Rossetti
18 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
19 - The Last Betrayal by Edith Nesbit
20 - Greater Love by Wilfred Owen
21 - In the Tavern of My Heart by Willa Cather
22 - Hearts First Word I by Isaac Rosenberg
23 - I Have Loved Flowers That Fade by Robert Seymour Bridges
24 - I So Like Spring by Charlotte Mew
25 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay
64 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell
27 - A Shropshire Lad XXXIII - If Truth in Hearts That Perish by A.E. Housman
28 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberance of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt
29 - Sonnet 139 - O! Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong by William Shakespeare
06 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith
31 - No One So Much As You by Edward Thomas
32 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing by William Shakespeare
33 - Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton
34 - The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley
35 - Jilted by Radclyffe Hall
36 - Jealously by Rupert Brooke
09 - Love and Hate by Elizabeth Siddal
38 - Amour XXX Three Sorts of Serpents Do Resemble Thee by Michael Drayton
28 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
40 - Modern Love II by George Meredith
41 - To the Ladies by Lady Mary Chudleigh
42 - Divorce by Anna Wickham
10 - Dead Love by Elizabeth Siddal
44 - Modern Love I by George Meredith
45 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron
46 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford
47 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow
48 - If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
49 - I Shall Not Care by Sara Teasdale
50 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke
51 - He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by W B Yeats
(Tags : 50 Shades of a Broken Heart: Broken heart poems for those hard times Edna St. Vincent Millay Audiobook, Edna St. Vincent Millay Audio CD )
