Both “Doctor Faustus” and “King Lear” teach us the silver lining in adversity, “Faustus” in a negative way, “Lear” in a positive.
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Lear: Finding Love in Adversity
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A Song of Love for Julia
My wife’s beautiful name becomes synonymous with longing in both a Robert Herrick and a John Lennon lyric.
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18–Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day–can be read as a power move.
Remembering a Father’s Tenderness
In this poem about his father, Li-Young Lee remembers a tender moment that has led to his own tenderness as an adult.
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I Carry Your Heart with Me
On this, the day of my wedding anniversary, I send to my wife an e. e. cummings poem.
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My Father’s Love Song to Phoebe
For my mother’s birthday, I post a love poem written to her by my late father 67 years ago.
Love, a Bulwark against Desolation
Toni Morrison expands St. Paul’s vision of love to include erotic love.
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How Do You Like Love? All Ways
Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” is the perfect play for Valentine’s Day.
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But the Greatest of These Is Love
First Corinthians 13 may be St. Paul’s greatest poem.