50 Shades of a Broken Heart

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 Introduction02 - Ebb by Edna St Vincent Millay03 - Heart We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson-04 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling05 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne06 - My Own Heart, Let Me Have More, Have Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins07 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt08 - The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by John Bodenham09 - Love Arm'd by Aphra Behn10 - A Shropshire Lad LIV - With Rue My Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman11 - A Poor Torn Heart, a Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson12 - Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Proctor13 - A Careless Heart by Isaac Rosenberg17 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew15 - A Fallen Leaf by Ella Wheeler Wilcox16 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde17 - A Pause of Thought by Christina Georgina Rossetti18 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy19 - The Last Betrayal by Edith Nesbit20 - Greater Love by Wilfred Owen21 - In the Tavern of My Heart by Willa Cather22 - Hearts First Word I by Isaac Rosenberg23 - I Have Loved Flowers That Fade by Robert Seymour Bridges24 - I So Like Spring by Charlotte Mew25 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay64 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell27 - A Shropshire Lad XXXIII - If Truth in Hearts That Perish by A.E. Housman28 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberance of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt29 - Sonnet 139 - O! Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong by William Shakespeare06 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith31 - No One So Much As You by Edward Thomas32 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing by William Shakespeare33 - Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton34 - The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley35 - Jilted by Radclyffe Hall36 - Jealously by Rupert Brooke09 - Love and Hate by Elizabeth Siddal38 - Amour XXX Three Sorts of Serpents Do Resemble Thee by Michael Drayton28 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon40 - Modern Love II by George Meredith41 - To the Ladies by Lady Mary Chudleigh42 - Divorce by Anna Wickham10 - Dead Love by Elizabeth Siddal44 - Modern Love I by George Meredith45 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron46 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford47 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow48 - If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart by Thomas Lovell Beddoes49 - I Shall Not Care by Sara Teasdale50 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke51 - He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by W B Yeats