Famous Love Poems Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Love Poems poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous love poems poems. These examples illustrate what a famous love poems poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...y’s wing
In January cold?
Good and bad are choice not chance
At sixteen I decided to be a poet,
Writing another’s love poems,
Earning my first praise. My verses
Were appalling until I learned
From Eliot and Alvarez - praise
Where praise is due.
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The caf? staff are chatting in subdued tones,
Wearing white, wondering if they’ll survive
The winter, so do I; at fifty-four I must decide
For poetry, my sons educated just, one at Balliol
One at the Royal Colleg...Read more of this...
by
Tebb, Barry
...am doomed to follow,
my perfect double,
only bumped an inch into the future,
and not nearly as well-versed as I
in the love poems of Ovid —
I who went back to the house
that fateful winter morning and got the book....Read more of this...
by
Collins, Billy
...Oh, if a tree could wander and move with foot and wings! It would not suffer the axe blows and not the pain of saws!
Letter to My Lover After Seven Years
...You gave me the child
that seamed my belly
& stitched up my life.
You gave me: one book of love poems,
five years of peace
& two of pain.
You gave me darkness, light, laughter
& the certain knowledge
that we someday die.
You gave me seven years
during which the cells of my body
died & were reborn.
Now we have died
into the limbo of lost loves,
that wreckage of memories
tarnishing with time,
that litany of losses
which grows longer with the year...Read more of this...
by
Jong, Erica
...l" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">From Love Poems from God, by Daniel Ladinsky. Copyright © 2002 by Daniel Ladinsky. Reprinted by permission of the author. ...Read more of this...
by
Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
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