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BE MINE: VALENTINE POEMS |
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Woo your sweetie by pairing the perfect poem with sweets, drink, and posies. The irresistible combination is sure to result in wobbly knees, a melting heart, and a very smitten valentine. From the lustful to the sacred; from Shakespeare to Gizzi, pick up a few ideas from this selection of ten poetic pairings to charm your adored one straight into your arms. Read more >
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LOVE POEMS TO SHARE |
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How better to express one’s feelings of love and passion than through reading and sharing a poem? Countless suitors have used verse to worship a beloved, seduce a sweetie, and express feelings of desire and longing. Read more >
Classic & Contemporary Favorites
"somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond"
by E. E. Cummings
"I Love You"
by Sara Teasdale
"True Love"
by Robert Penn Warren
"The Buried Life" by Matthew Arnold
"The Look" by Sara Teasdale
"It Was Raining In Delft"
by Peter Gizzi
"Credo"
by Matthew Rohrer
"Song to Celia"
by Ben Jonson
"Two Loves"
by Lord Alfred Douglas
"Love in a Life" by Robert Browning
"Love"
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"When a Woman Loves a Man"
by David Lehman
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SELECTED FAVORITES |
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Long Distance II
by Tony Harrison
Though my mother was already two years dead
Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas...
Blue
by May Swenson
Blue, but you are Rose, too,
and buttermilk, but with blood...
Lullaby
by W. H. Auden
Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm...
Rent
by Jane Cooper
If you want my apartment, sleep in it
but let's have a clear understanding...
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one
by June Jordan
well I wanted to braid my hair
bathe and bedeck my
The Conjugation of the Paramecium
by Muriel Rukeyser
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