If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems ... Robert would recite this poem, and it always reduced me to tears, so much so that I was incapable of continuing the recital ...
Tragically much of Sappho’s poetry has been lost, but she continues to be celebrated even in fragmented form – so, indeed, we do remember her from another time. You’ll definitely know ...
The internet has more love poems that you could ... these beautiful verses in Christmas 1943, just after the death of his girlfriend, Ruth, in a plane crash in Canada. Because it was so obscure ...
some sources say that Poe wrote this poem while mourning his brother and grappling with his wife’s illness, so the description of the death of a young, beautiful woman in this context carries an ...
Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new ...
Do this in bits, pausing every few words, so that you don't give yourself too much to remember each time. Keep doing this until you can say all of the lines in the first part of the poem without ...
Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right ... The cynics suspect that the matter isn’t so simple. Whether you get drunk or stay dry might depend on whether ...