2. Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds.” (1609) Sonnet 116 is arguably one of the most famous love-themed poems ever written. In this poem, Shakespeare shows that true love ...

Clearly, Harvey’s song, which focuses on a sex worker yearning for true love, does not share many common ... These lines were taken from a poem that Arthur once wrote to his wife, which he then comes ...

Maybe you’d pick up a magazine or a book. However, research, and comments from some of my own acquaintances, indicate that ...

Shortly after their marriage ... the last complete poem that he composed. In this piece, the narrator blends darkness with romance, professing his undying love for the young woman, Annabel ...

Dear Readers: Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season.

It was only much later that I realised they were my first attempts at poetry.” He would later write love poems of his own (most of which he never delivered). And move on from there to published ...

This independence is most perfectly embodied in Cisneros’s 1994 poetry collection, Loose Woman. I came across the titular ...

Slow Wreckage is Crooker’s tenth book of poems. She has always been a sharp noticer, especially of the natural world and the ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics. Isabella Cotier By A.O ...