Chaucer may have invented St. Valentine’s Day as we have come to know it. “Parliament of Fowls” was written to celebrate the occasion, along with a royal wedding.
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Chaucer Invented St. Valentine’s Day
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Love Came Down at Christmas
People ask for physical miracles so that they may believe. Christina Rossetti points out that Jesus gave us something far more miraculous: divine love.
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For the Final, We Shall Be Tested on Love
Thomas Centolella applies the language of testing to love in this witty and moving poem.
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Lear: Finding Love in Adversity
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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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.