With Valentine's Day fast approaching, what better way to get you in the mood than some of the world's great love poems read aloud - for free?

Audible Inc, the world's largest seller of downloadable audiobooks, is offering a 30-minute collection of some the most beloved love poems narrated by actor Richard Armitage including Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare and Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress.

Starting on Monday, the 15 poems were available as a free download.

The list includes She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron, How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Maud by Lord Alfred Tennyson, Bright Star by John Keats, Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, I Carry Your Heart by E. E. Cummings and Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

"These are some of the most beautiful and most romantic verses ever written in the English language," says Armitage, a stage and film actor who was in the Hobbit trilogy.

"I hope that those who are already admirers of these works enjoy my recitation, and that those discovering them for the first time through this production fall in love with the melodious and heartfelt poetry that makes Valentine's Day and every day just a little bit more romantic."