Facebook Love
For Valentines Day, our Facebook fans picked their favorite poems from our archive.
BY The Editors
Sonnets from the Portuguese 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
The Delicacy by Sandra McPherson
Friend, remember how you showed us beasts love beauty?
We were wading in your lake with bluegills and you said,
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
Robeson at Rutgers by Elizabeth Alexander
Hard to picture, but these Goliath trees
are taller still than Robeson. Outside
I Knew a Woman by Theodore Roethke
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
A Color of the Sky by Tony Hoagland
Windy today and I feel less than brilliant,
driving over the hills from work.
[love is more thicker than forget] by E. E. Cummings
love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron (George Gordon)
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
The Good-Morrow by John Donne
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
When I Heard at the Close of the Day by Walt Whitman
In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me,
And his arm lay lightly around my breast – and that night I was happy.
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