Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

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.

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

Valentine's Day is a time for poetry, to speak of love and how romance and relationships change and deepen over time. Elders ...

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

But there, it would interrupt the flow from the title to the poem’s first stanza and sentence, which is: “At dinner I was seated next to him,/with whom I might have fallen in love/were he not ...