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Summary

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

Duration: about 1 hour (00:58:35)
Publishing date: 2022-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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