of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Forget funny roses-are-red poems! Nothing sums up the feeling of complete and total devotion quite like Elizabeth ...

Like many of Shakespeare’s other works, this is a love poem for a woman or man who enriched the poet’s life. The opening ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

Kaur’s poems are usually short and use easy-to-understand ... greatest poet of the 20th century in any language” brings love to life in all its brooding, sensual and despairing facets in ...

In one of the most famous love poems of all time, Burns goes all out to express the wonder of love: It’s beautiful like a flower, it’s sweet like music, it’s deep as the sea. And Burns isn ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.