Here are 12 specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter. This literary bouquet of blooms includes Andrew Marvell's classic "To His Coy Mistress"; a beautiful extract from "The Song of Solomon"; Christina Rossetti's joyful "A Birthday"; and Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". As well, there are Edward Fitzgerald's meditations from "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"; Edward Lear's comic verse "The Owl and The Pussycat"; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "If Thou Must Love Me"; John Donne's "The Sunne Rising"; and lines from John Milton's "Paradise Lost". Completing the dozen are Robert Burns' "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose"; Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder"; and Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
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