Download or read book Love Poems written by Peter Washington and published by Everyman Chess. This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of the human soul.