by Nickr893 on December 23rd, 2006

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Best love poems?

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  • by hijklmno on February 14th, 2008

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    Here are a few I like. The last is maybe not a traditional "love poem" but it's about love.

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    When you go by Edwin Morgan

    When you go,
    if you go,
    And I should want to die,
    there's nothing I'd be saved by
    more than the time
    you fell asleep in my arms
    in a trust so gentle
    I let the darkening room
    drink up the evening, till
    rest, or the new rain
    lightly roused you awake.
    I asked if you heard the rain in your dream
    and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.

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    Bookworm by Norman MacCaig

    I open the second volume
    of a rose
    and find it says, word for word,
    the same as the first one.

    The waves of the sea
    annoy me, they bore me;
    why aren't they divided
    in paragraphs?

    I look at the night
    and make nothing of it -
    those black pages
    with no print.

    But I love the gothic script
    of pinetrees and
    on the pond the light's
    fancy italics.

    And the cherry tree's petals -
    they make
    a sweet lyric, I appreciate
    their dying fall.

    But it's strange, girl, how I come back
    from the library of everything
    to stare and stare
    at the closed book of you.

    When will you open to me
    and show me the meaning of all
    the hard words
    in the lexicon of love?

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    An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin

    Side by side, their faces blurred,
    The earl and countess lie in stone,
    Their proper habits vaguely shown
    As jointed armour, stiffened pleat,
    And that faint hint of the absurd -
    The little dogs under their feet.

    Such plainess of the pre-baroque
    Hardly involves the eye, until
    It meets his left hand gauntlet, still
    Clasped empty in the other; and
    One sees, with sharp tender shock,
    His hand withdrawn, holding her hand.

    They would not think to lie so long.
    Such faithfulness in effigy
    Was just a detail friends could see:
    A sculptor's sweet comissioned grace
    Thrown off in helping to prolong
    The Latin names around the base.

    They would not guess how early in
    Their supine stationary voyage
    Their air would change to soundless damage,
    Turn the old tenantry away;
    How soon succeeding eyes begin
    To look, not read. Rigidly they

    Persisted, linked, through lengths and breadths
    Of time. Snow fell, undated. Light
    Each summer thronged the grass. A bright
    Litter of birdcalls strewed the same
    Bone-riddled ground. And up the paths
    The endless altered people came,

    Washing at their identity.
    Now, helpless in the hollow of
    An unarmorial age, a trough
    Of smoke in slow suspended skeins
    Above their scrap of history,
    Only an attitude remains:

    Time has transfigured them into
    Untruth. The stone fidelity
    They hardly meant has come to be
    Their final blazon, and to prove
    Our almost-instinct almost true:
    What will survive of us is love.

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