by Romantic Poems | | Poetry
In the beginning a poem travels toward another, bearing its heart within a sealed envelope. The epistolary poem inherits its form from the oldest impulses of communication, born of the Latin epistola—itself ushered forth from the Greek epistolē, a vessel...
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Heartbreak, make me a dancer, a dancer DJ, give me the answer, answer Love, stop getting me down, down, down Freemasons (2009) The expressive force of short poems about heartbreak lies in the electric tension between absence and utterance: a distilled narrative...
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Boldly walking the faultline between wit and warmth, funny flirty poems have seduced generations of readers and listeners across disparate cultures. These poems stand apart from overtly earnest or solemn verse, preferring the glancing touch of humor and irreverence to...
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Vivid and labyrinthine, Farsi love poetry embodies a centuries-long drama of longing, symbolism, and reinvention. Its foundational gestures unfurl across epics, lyrics, court ritual, and mystical riddles. The classical tradition intertwines passion for a beloved...
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Cute roses are red violets are blue poems rest on a heritage of English court and meadow. The tapestry begins with Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, whose line “She bath’d with roses red, and violets blew” scents the path. This motif, by...
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William Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” remains a touchstone of English lyric poetry, echoing through the centuries with the same exuberant spring as the flowers that inspired it. Born of solitude and observation, its music invokes the Lake...
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock announces a modern lyric sensibility: a restless precision that resists sentimental ornament and yearns for contact amid urban estrangement. The poem, now inseparable from the phrase “measured out with coffee spoons,”...
by Romantic Poems | | For Her, Love
Poems to make her fall in love reside at the heart of courtly arts, courting the soul through finely wrought language that stirs passion and unveils hidden desires. These verses enact transformation, draping lovers in an aura of shared meaning and vulnerability. As...
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John Keats poems unfold against a landscape shaken by revolution and restless after the Enlightenment’s waning star. Imagination, once curbed, now gallops unfettered through English verse. In this tumultuous dawn, Romantic bards (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron,...
by Romantic Poems | | Girlfriend
Language attains its richest vibrancy when inflected by romance. In poetry, ordinary phrases transform into vessels that transmit affection, patience, and shared vulnerability far beyond what routine gestures convey. The act of penning poems for my girlfriend...
