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 ...

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.” ...

Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might ... Emily Dickinson has more than a few famous poems to her name. In this one, she explores themes of anonymity and humility, noting ...

Duffy uses the metaphor of an onion to describe the complexity of love in her poem 'Valentine'. "Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion." On the face of it, Carol Ann Duffy’s ...

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 ...

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: ...