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BE MINE: VALENTINE POEMS


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 >

LOVE POEMS TO SHARE


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


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
This has nothing
to do with

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Another Language of Flowers Another Language of Flowers
By Dorothea Tanning

Paintings by Dorothea Tanning accompanied by poetry from twelve highly esteemed poets.

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The Color of Love: An Artist's Book of Poetry and Passion The Color of Love: An Artist's Book of Poetry and Passion

First created more than a decade ago as an extremely limited, silk-screened edition, The Color of Love is a lavish gift for lovers everywhere.

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A Book of Love Poetry A Book of Love Poetry
By John Stallworthy

From the civilization of the Lower Nile to that of the Lower Hudson, more poets have written more convincingly, more poignantly about love than about any other subject.

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Emily Dickinson Necklace Emily Dickinson Necklace

The perfect accessory for the fashionable poetry-lover, this necklace features the opening lines of Emily Dickinson's classic poem #1741

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RELATED ESSAYS


"All My Poems Are Love Poems":
When Two Poets Fall In Love

by Craig Morgan Teicher

Most poets, at one time or another, write their way into the hearts of their chosen lasses or lads, but sometimes something slightly more unusual happens: two poets fall in love with each other. Read more >

On Poems of Love
by Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker

Eros is often the fuel of the lyric imagination, which chooses to use words, sentences, musical structures of language to re/member the beloved, to enter that inexhaustible source of—not uniquely "carnal"—knowledge which is another person's body and mind. Read more >

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