The essential love poem anthology Gem Love Poems is a collection of around 140 classic love lyrics (published in time for Valentine's Day), from the heartbreak of Sappho The moon sinks, and the Pleiades: Midnight is come, the watchman passes, And I lie here alone. to the antidote of Wendy Cope The day he moved out was terrible - That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn't a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well. Gem Love Poems will be the ideal gift for all lovers of poetry -- indeed the ideal gift for all lovers. Here is the poem written by Leo Marks for Violet Szabo which she carried into Nazi-occupied Europe - The life that I have is all that I have And the life that I have is yours. The love that I have of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours... And the eternal wisdom of Don Marquis's shameless alley cat, Mehitabel - i once was an innocent kit wotthehell wotthehell with a ribbon my neck to fit and bells tied on to it o wotthehell wottthehell but a maltese cat came by with a come hither look in his eye... from monotonous. It can modulate from friendship, through lifelong devotion, to sheer blunt lust. There is He and She, of course, but there is also the reader-over-their-shoulder. Love poems, I suspect, are not just written for that impossible she, but for this expected voyeur. And the interesting thing is that we, the readers, are prepared to take what the poets say, whatever it may be, as gospel truth. This is where love poetry differs from all other kinds...read this for its wit, its generosity, its bird-song, its consistency. Love and poetry -- two things wefire good at.'