📚 Love Songs

The largest subject in popular music, taken as a subject: the conventions, and who broke them when.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject love songs in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the Torch Song Tradition	Larry David Smith	2003	4
	Love songs	Ted Gioia	2015	4
	Die Geharnschte Venus	Kaspar von Stieler	1660	3
	The tragedie of Phillis, complaining of the disloyall loue of Amyntas	R. A	1625	2
	The complaint of the shepheard Harpalus	Murray, David Sir	1625	2
	Songs of love and liberty	Kennedy, Thomas	1817	2
	A Book of old English love songs	Hamilton Wright Mabie	1897	2
	Di liu dai Dalai la ma Cangyangjiacuo qing ge =	6th Dalai Lama	1930	2
	To her hand	James L. Weil	1972	2
	Zemer shel ahavah	Gilʻad Ben-Shakh	1984	2
	Classic Love Songs	Hal Leonard Corp.	1988	2
	WEDDING & LOVE SONGS FOR A NEW CENTURY	Hal Leonard Corp.	1999	2
	Su̇ĭu̇u̇ yrlary	Akmataliev, A.	2003	2
	Now she that I louyd trewly	Unknown author	1525	1
	Now she that I louyd trewly	Rastell, John	1525	1
	The tragedie of Phillis, complaining of the disloyall loue of Amyntas	R. A.	1625	1
	Bedlam garland.	Unknown author	1770	1
	Couplets en l'honneur d'une rosière, mariée à un brave	Pierre François Palloy	1807	1
	The land of sweet Erin	I. Pocock	1810	1
	The girl of my heart, together with The maid of Lodi, and Country 'squire	John Rannie	1811	1
	Sally McGuire	Leonard Deming	1829	1
	Love from the heart	Karl von Weber	1830	1
	The Ch[i]mney sweep, Beaggar [sic] girl, and Crazy Jane	John Westbrooke Chandler	1832	1
	The Lincolnshire poachers	Leonard Deming	1832	1
	Bold boatswain	Hunts & Shaw	1837	1
	Ellen Bayne	William K. Wood	1858	1
	Sally, come up!	T. Ramsey	1862	1
	If ever I cease to love	San Francisco News Company	1871	1
	Lotta Lee	C. T. Lockwood	1872	1
	Meet me in the lane	Charles Blamphin	1872	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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