What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? T hroughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for ... those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.

Here at Polygon, we love ... you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it’s there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems ...

There's no shortage of romantic verse for people who have just fallen in love. But no one waxes ... of partnership. One poem asks: "Are you in the mood?" I am. Let's put the kids down.

Christ! If my love were in my arms, And I in my bed again! Enda Wyley’s latest collection is Borrowed Space, New and Selected Poems (2014) If you could only take my husband's place and swear to ...

The 14-line poem describes how the beauty of its subject outclasses nature itself, with a focus on how Summer is inconstant and will eventually give way to Fall, while immortal love will never ...

Take just a moment to estimate how many songs you know by heart. Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Now, how many poems do you have memorized? For most modern readers, even poetry fans, that number's ...