You need not wear a writer’s hat to impress the love of your life through eloquent words — here we have a list of the most beautiful poems to make her feel special. There are so many things ...

In addition to love poems for him and her, you’ll find sad poems alongside funny poems, as well as short poems amid excerpts from longer epics. These poets have searched high and low for the ...

Poem II from Adrienne Rich’s sequence Twenty-One Love Poems describes the poet waking in her lover’s bed following a dream. She tenderly writes: “You’ve kissed my hair / to wake me.” ...

Dickinson never married, though she fell in love with a number of unavailable men and women. This poem seems to point to her relationship with the Rev. Charles Wadsworth, a married Presbyterian ...

My favourite love poem is The Sun Rising by John Donne. Love threatens Shakespeare’s ego, for Donne it’s its own radical reality. His wife, whom he married against her father’s wishes when ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Rita Dove’s Heart to Heart likewise contemplates the relationship between love and language. In the poem, Dove, the former US poet laureate dismisses the clichéd ways in which we talk about the heart: ...