Love Letters of Great Men

No, I didn't want the book Carrie had in SATC, dreamily I'd like to find something at a car boot sale or our little local market at the usual book stall we browse. I'd like a book of love poems, they don't have to be written all by men, they just have to say something to me, just like Walt Whitman does.

I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE-OAK GROWING
by: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

 SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing,

All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches;

Without any companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of dark green,

And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself;

But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near--for I knew I could not;

And broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,

And brought it away--and I have placed it in sight in my room;

It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,

(For I believe lately I think of little else than them:)

Yet it remains to me a curious token--it makes me think of manly love;

For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana, solitary, in a wide flat space,

Uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near,

I know very well I could not.

I've browsed Amazon and eBay, but I'm just not feeling anything they can offer me at the moment. I think it's partly in the finding not just the having :) until then, this sweet little website will do.