If poetry, as Wordsworth asserted, is “emotion recollected in tranquility,” this sonnet scores high in the former essential but falls short of the latter. “How Do I Love Thee,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,įrom death to life thou mightst him yet recover. When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, Now at the last gasp of Love’s latest breath, Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part Īnd I am glad, yea glad with all my heart In the last six lines he shows his true feelings with a series of personifications of the dying figures of Love, Passion, Faith, and Innocence, which he pleads can be saved from their fate by the lady’s kindness. you get no more of me,” but that can’t last. He begins with a show of stoic indifference: “. Drayton, a contemporary and possible acquaintance of the Bard, evidently had come to the unhappy end of an affair when he penned this sonnet. It may be a bad augury to begin with a poem by a loser, but there it is. “Since There’s No Help,” by Michael Drayton (1563-1631) Here, with a few comments and no apologies, is the list:ġ0 Greatest Poems Ever Written 10. As befits the topic this time, the list is a bit heavy on Romantics and light on those rational Enlightenment types. The poems I have chosen this time cover the full spectrum of responses to love, from joy to anguish, and sometimes a mixture of both.
Like death, love seems to be something most poets know little about for evidence, see their biographies. These should quench your thirst for the best love poems, but don’t take these as some kind of how-to manual in your relationship. If you like a more classical style, well, here I am again, unbowed by the heartfelt, sometimes urgent suggestions for altering my recent “ 10 Greatest Poems about Death.” This time I choose a topic-love-less grim if equally compelling.
If you are looking for love poems in more modern language, you will probably find the 10 Best Love Poems of 2021 useful. People are always asking “What are the best love poems?” or “Where can I find something beautiful to say to the woman I love?” or “…to the man I love?”
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