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

Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and to help you find meaning and make ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

It takes a bit of licence with the literal meaning but it works: I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to ...

This is quite a complex idea, and the meaning is open to interpretation ... of the fragility of human life, and the fact that not everything can last. Read the poem here. Compare 'Tissue' and ...