A Lovers Gift: From Him to Her is a collection of poetry and music expressing the romantic feelings of the greatest poets, writers, and composers over the last four centuries.The collection includes works by Shakespeare, Burns, Byron, Puccini, Grieg, Faure, and more.
Despite exploring themes of lost love, obsession, pessimism and death, the poems touched English readers and became a bestseller during the Second Boer War and World War I. The collection, set in a half-imagined pastoral Shropshire, includes the well-known poems When I Was One-and-Twenty, To an Athlete Dying Young and Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now.