The spirit of Valentine’s Day, like February itself, is best kept short and sweet. On the occasion of a notoriously ...

May this February 14th be filled with love and romance. Share these poems with your soulmate and let them know how much they ...

From the mythology of Gráinne and Diarmuid to the poetry of Yeats and the songs of Van the Man, Ireland has long celebrated ...

You may or may not share Dante’s religious convictions, but perhaps you can relate to the notion that romantic love at its ...

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

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed ...

An old, old, old, old, old (key word is old here), old flame of mine from my freshman year of high school recently sent me this poem: ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Valentine's Day is a time for poetry, to speak of love and how romance and relationships change and deepen over time. Elders ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Surprising, bold, and enduring… the history of eroticism in the Arab-Muslim world shines a spotlight on homosexuality and the ...