If you make a list of love poems, you’re obliged to include a Shakespearean ... he ends up telling his lover that their face “is like a slice of half-boiled turnip”. This attempt to compare ...

is the perfect response. Written in 1904 by German Japanese American poet Carl Sadakichi Hartmann (1867–1944), the poem lists natural occurrences that, like love, would have been impossible to ...

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 ...

There are two examples of similes in Robert Burns' poem A Red, Red Rose about his enduring love: 'My love is like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June.' 'My love is like the melody that's ...

It was like a single long poem, containing infinite mood swings. The jump from 129, an incredible anti-love poem, to besotted 130 is pretty funny, though they’re not really in order. Also ...

It is a poem that thinks as much about language as it does about love, but resolves in a sincere but frustrated attempt to tell his lover how he feels. In trying to be precise in his use of language, ...