PABLO NERUDA - Love - StumbleUpon. Great Poems « Greatest Books of All Time » Life-Changing Arts. A selection of great poems from centuries of brillant authors and poets.
Whether you are new to the world of poetry and wish to savor it, or a well-versed poetry connoisseur, either way you will probably enjoy the classics of world poetry. The poems are sorted by vote. To vote for a poem, click on the left of it. Open thread: What are your favourite love poems? What makes a perfect love poem?
Obviously, the possibilities are as endlessly personal and subjective as love itself. This week, we've asked writers to choose their favourite love poems – collected together here in our beautiful interactive – for Valentine's Day. For John Burnside, winner of this year's TS Eliot prize for poetry, the most eloquent are those that voice unspoken adoration, hence his choice of Walter Raleigh's The Silent Lover; whereas David Nicholls, author of one of the best-selling love stories of recent years, One Day, is through with poems of unrequited yearning of his youth, these days preferring the qualities of "mutual understanding, balance, constancy" as expressed in John Donne's wedding favourite The Good Morrow.
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