Arguably one of the most beautiful love poems ever written ... suggest Dickinson had a livelier romantic life behind closed doors. The poem opens with a passionate desire to spend the night ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

And just because you’re in love ... 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, the poem ...