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 ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

In one of the most famous love poems of all time, Burns goes all out to express the wonder of love: It’s beautiful like a flower, it’s sweet like music, it’s deep as the sea. And Burns isn ...