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    Love Poems
    Love Poems
    Love Poems
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    Love Poems

    By Steven Payne

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    "... all my latter life you had

    Always the whole of me.
    In a few words that I can leave
    You can keep the soul of me."


    LOVE POEMS by Steven Payne

    Steven Payne lives and writes in his home county of Leicestershire. He is the author of Carrying the Torch, My Lost Prize (both 2011) and Love Letters (2012), all of which have been published by Xlibris. Love Poems is his first volume of verse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateSep 10, 2012
    ISBN9781479714643
    Love Poems
    Author

    Steven Payne

    I was born in 1972 and with one relatively brief exception I have lived all my life in my home county of Leicestershire. I have written from a very early age, although it took me almost until the age of forty to get into print! When not writing I enjoy reading, cooking and walking.

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      Love Poems - Steven Payne

      Copyright © 2012 by Steven Payne.

      Cover image: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893): Roundhay Lake (1877), oil on board, 23 x 43 cm / 9.06 x 16.93. Private collection.

      ISBN:          Softcover                     978-1-4797-1463-6

                         Ebook                         978-1-4797-1464-3

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

      0-800-644-6988

      www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

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      CONTENTS

      Note

      Better Late Than Never

      The Change

      Triolet: ‘I wouldn’t change now’

      A Brief History of Love Poetry

      Parallax

      Lies

      Positions

      Four Poems by Heinrich Heine

      Villanelle: ‘A bitter thing’

      Way of the World

      Absence

      Intimation

      Duerme, amor mio: four aubades

      Triolet: ‘I vastly prefer it’

      Specifics

      Lilies

      Catullus: translations from the Carmina

      The Persistence of Memory

      I Choose You

      Stepping Stone

      Multiverse

      Ars amatoria

      To call oneself ‘the one’

      Villanelle: ‘It seems so long’

      Mixed Bag

      Signs

      Night and Day

      Triolet: ‘Tell me straight’

      The Truth About Love

      When You Are Old

      Far and away

      Bodies

      Wolf Moon

      Prognosis

      For my beloved Alison

      To, for, about—whatever happens

      Mia anima gemella,

      ti amerò finchè ho vita.

      Benedetto sia ’l giorno, e ’l mese, e l’anno,

      E la stagione, e ’l tempo, e l’ora, e ’l punto

      E ’l bel paese e ’l loco, ov’io fui giunto

      Da’duo begli occhi

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