There’s a quiet determination in 1927’s “Little Things,” a short and sweet poem from the perspective of a mother cooing gently to her child, promising to teach how to love tenderly and how ...

If you make a list of love poems, you’re obliged to include a Shakespearean ... This, she says, “made me so happy, / As ordinary things often do”. Its description of a lovely but ordinary ...

The Sexton—a minor church official who keeps things in order—puts ... though she fell in love with a number of unavailable men and women. This poem seems to point to her relationship with ...

Love is not exclusive to lovers. It's for anyone and everyone. If it were not there would be no ministers or priests to preach. No Mother Theresa or teachers to teach. No one looking up at the moon ...

toxic love, but in the spirit of Valentine’s Day I’ve tried to get over my own hang-ups and share that rarest of things – a good poem about good love; the kind of love that can shock us with ...

One theme of this poem is love. The poet imagines a cloth that is ... he does not have these things to offer. He is, in contrast to the rich cloths, ‘poor’. However, he does have his dreams ...

If you make a list of love poems, you’re obliged to include a Shakespearean sonnet ... This, she says, “made me so happy, / As ordinary things often do”. Its description of a lovely but ordinary day ...