title: 29 Poems Capturing the Essence of Love
author: Evelyn Clay
description: Evelyn Sue Clay began writing poetry in 1998. She resides in Las Vegas, Nevada where she works on environmental matters. She is a proud single mother of her son, Phillip.
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  ROBERT GRAVES'
  POEMS
  ABOUT
  LOVE
  To a man in love the perfect poem
  is
  said
  to be
  the name of
  his beloved,
  repeated over and over. For ordinary
  mortals, however, who may not be able
  to endure the bliss of such unrestrained
  echolalia, the verses in this collection,
  chosen from the works of one of the
  literary giants of the twentieth century,
  should be paradise enough.
  Ranging the field of amatory declara-
  tion—odes, elegies, songs, celebrations
  —this volume rises above
  tete-a-tete
  attitudinizing to heart-to-heart avowal.
  Personal,
  meditative and
  lyrical,
  the
  shifting moods demonstrate the de-
  lights and despairs of man's most sub-
  lime estate.
  Graves earnestly believes that love
  is a mystical emotion, which
  civiliza-
  tion
  has
  all but destroyed.
  In
  the
  "mcchanarchy''
  in which we
  live, he
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  Gi-avee
  Graves,
  Robert,
  1895-1985
  Poems abou