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The pleasures of love : being amatory poems, original and translated, from the Asiatic and European languages

Fitzwilliam, G W

1807

"Many of the translations, and some few of the original pieces are written by the editor..."--p. vi. "Modern publications and new editions of valuable standard works, printed for Longman, Hurst, Ree...

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The song of songs

Jay, Peter (1945-)

1998

Includes bibliography and index.

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Aphrodite's garland : five ancient love poems

Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)

1951

Verse translations of poems by Sappho, Catullus, Horace and other Greek and Latin poets. Catalogued from cover.

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Sanskrit love poems

Merwin, W S (1927-2019); Masson, J Moussaieff (1941-); Greaves, Derrick; Sykes, Richard (1946-2019); Mason, Penny

[1987]

"The poems are from The peacock's egg, published by North Point Press, California"--Page [1]. Issued in loose sections in a paper cover, in a slipcase. 120 copies comprising 100 marked 1-100 and 20 ...

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Aphrodite's garland : five ancient love poems

Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)

1951

Verse translations of poems by Sappho, Catullus, Horace and other Greek and Latin poets. Catalogued from cover.

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Love's bitter-sweet : translations from the Irish poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Flower, Robin (1881-1946)

[1971]

Facsimile reprint; originally published: Dublin: Cuala Press, 1925.

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The love songs of Connacht : being the fourth chapter of the Songs of Connacht

Hyde, Douglas (1860-1949)

1971

Facsimile reprint; originally published: Dublin: Dun Emer Press, 1925.

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Fishing in the sky : love poems

Longley, Michael (1939-)

1975

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Not only I

McCully, C B

1996

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Ioannis Ioviani Pontani Amorum libri II : De amore coniugali III. Tumulorum II, qui in superiore aliorum poëmaton editione desyderabantur. Lyrici I. Eridanorum II. Eclogæ duæ Coryle, & Quinquennius superioribus quatuor additæ. Calpurnij Siculi Eclogæ VII. Aurelij Nemesiani Eclogæ IIII. Explicatio locorum omnium abstrusorum Pontani authore Petro Summontio uiro doctissimo. Index rerum, quæ in his Pontani lusibus contineantur

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano (1429-1503); Calpurnius Siculus, Titus; Nemesianus, Marcus Aurelius Olympius; Summonte, Pietro (fl. 1504); Torresanus, Andreas de Asula (1451-1529)

1518

"C'est le second volume des poésies de Pontanus: il n'a été imprimé que cette seule fois par les Alde." Cf. Renouard. Leaves 89, 91, 93, and 95 misnumbered 97, 99 101, and 103. Printer's devic...

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Xenia and Motets

Montale, Eugenio (1896-1981)

1980

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Ovid's Amores

Ovid; Barsby, John (1935-)

1973

Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.

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