I am looking for literature that eloquently and beautifully describes love and being in love. I will appreciate all suggestions.
2007-03-02 05:36:23 · 9 answers · asked by All This and Brains Too! 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Here is the Yahoo directory of love poetry sites on the web:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Poetry/Thematic_Poetry/Love_Poetry/
2007-03-02 05:47:21 · answer #1 · answered by LibraryGirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are my 3 favorite love poems. My husband and I had a dear friend read the last one aloud at our wedding (almost 14 years ago).
I got me flowers to straw thy way
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought'st thy sweets along with thee.
The Sunne arising in the East,
Though he give light, & th'East perfume;
If they should offer to contest
With thy arising, they presume.
Can there be any day but this,
Though many sunnes to shine endeavor?
We count three hundred, but we misse:
There is but one, and that one ever.
(George Herbert, from "Easter")
Understand, I'll slip quietly
away from the noisy crowd
when I see the pale
stars rising, blooming, over the oaks.
I'll pursue solitary pathways
through the pale twilit meadows,
with only this one dream:
You come too.
(Rainer Maria Rilke, from "First Poems")
Nothing is plumb, level or square:
the studs are bowed, the joists
are shaky by nature, no piece fits
any other piece without a gap
or pinch, and bent nails
dance all over the surfacing
like maggots. By Christ
I am no carpenter. I built
the roof for myself, the walls
for myself, the floors
for myself, and got
hung up in it myself. I
danced with a purple thumb
at this house-warming, drunk
with my prime whiskey: rage.
Oh I spat rage's nails
into the frame-up of my work:
it held. It settled plumb,
level, solid, square and true
for that great moment. Then
it screamed and went on through,
skewing as wrong the other way.
God damned it. This is hell,
but I planned it, I sawed it,
I nailed it, and I
will live in it until it kills me.
I can nail my left palm
to the left-hand cross-piece but
I can't do everything myself.
I need a hand to nail the right,
a help, a love, a you, a wife.
(Alan Dugan: "Love Song: I and Thou")
What. maggots, carpentry, and mild profanity in a love poem?? But we still treasure this after almost 14 years, and it's one of the better metaphors I've ever seen for marriage or a long-term relationship.....Hope you find something here to enjoy.
2007-03-02 14:49:17 · answer #2 · answered by Leslie D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shakespeare is always good. If you're talking about a passionate sometimes negative love, Slyvia Plath's poems are really good. They are poems about Ted Hughes and about her father. Any of the romantics; Coleridge, Keats, Shelley.
2007-03-02 13:51:13 · answer #3 · answered by Jade D. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a wonderful example of a true love story, it illustrates perfectly how true love knows no boundaries.
2007-03-02 15:53:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jane Austin is a good love describer :P but i should tray Shakespeare's sonnets(16 especial)
2007-03-02 13:50:00 · answer #5 · answered by Schmutzy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Sonnets From the Portugeuse....
How do I love thee, let me count the ways....and so on
2007-03-02 13:39:30 · answer #6 · answered by Jiahua D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definitely "pride and prejudice", if you have plenty of reading time "war and peace" and "anna karenina" are also good. they have a historical background in them but wrapped around that is a number of complicated love quarrels.
2007-03-02 14:13:32 · answer #7 · answered by angelicasongs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I love you
And I really mean that
2007-03-02 13:44:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
grace livingston hill
2007-03-02 13:39:45 · answer #9 · answered by NIKKI S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋