Romantic poems, when you want the perfect words, to inspire yourself, or that someone special. Poems such as this one:
Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her
If questioning would make us wise
No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;
If all our tale were told in speech
No mouths would wander each to each.
Were spirits free from mortal mesh
And love not bound in hearts of flesh
No aching breasts would yearn to meet
And find their ecstasy complete.
For who is there that lives and knows
The secret powers by which he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
Then seek not, sweet, the 'If' and 'Why'
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.
Includes poems by:
Edwin Arnold
W.H. Auden
Waitman Barbe
Stephen Vincent Benet
Francis W. Bourdillon
Anne Bradstreet
Christopher Brennan
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
Lord Byron
William Cartwright
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Emily Dickinson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Anne Finch
Robert Frost
Kahlil Gibran
John Keats
Walter Savage Landor
Richard Lovelace
Samuel Lover
George Lyttelton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Christopher Marlowe
JB O'Reilly
Li Po
Edgar Allen Poe
Adelaide Anne Procter
Aleksandr Pushkin
Helen Steiner Rice
Theodore Roethke
Dante Rosetti
Lady John Scott
William Shakespeare
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sir Philip Sidney
Charles Swain
Kuan Tao-Sheng
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sara Teasdale
Walt Whitman
Oscar Wilde
William Wordsworth
William Butler Yeats
