To see his betrothed one last time a medieval knight returns from the dead; three fishermen part from their wives to go to sea; a woman faces a choice between loyalty and love... From Emily Brontë, William Morris, Robert Browning, Anthony Trollope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy and many others, come the stories, songs, letters and poems of love and longing that made Victorian heart synonymous with romance.Contents: Love's Philosophy - Percy ShelleyThree Fishers Went Sailing - Charles KingsleyHe Remembers Forgotten Beauty - W. B. YeatsLove and Friendship - Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)Miss Youghal's Sais - Rudyard KiplingPorphyria's Lover - Robert BrowningA Romance of the Ganges - Elizabeth BrowningThe Fullness of Life - Edith WhartonWild Nights! - Emily DickinsonLament of the Irish Emigrant - Lady DufferinKnight Aagen & Maiden Else - William MorrisAngela - William GilbertA Match - Algernon SwinburneEchoes of Love's House - William MorrisLove and Duty - Alfred TennysonWillowwood - Dante RossettiA Love Symphony - Arthur O'ShaughnessyFlower of Love - Oscar WildeThe Ballad of Oriana - Alfred TennysonA Mere Intelude - Thomas HardyIf The Past Year Were Offered Me Again - Lady AugustaRemember - Christina RossettiAn Englishwoman's Love Letters – Anonymous (Laurence Housman)