Love & Relationships Poetry

• "Love is like a wild rose-briar, friendship is like the holly tree" - Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte
• "Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now" - L&F by Emily Bronte
• 'its summer blossoms scent the air' - L&F by Emily Bronte
• "he may still leave thy garland green" L&F by Emily Bronte
• "Love set you going like a fat gold watch" - Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
• "Your nakedness shadows our safety" - MS by Sylvia Plath
• "All night your moth - breath flickers" - MS by Sylvia Plath
• "new statue" - MS by Sylvia Plath
• "The clear vowels rise like balloons" - MS by Sylvia Plath
• "The time will come" - Love after love by Derek Walcott
• "You will greet yourself arriving / at your own door, in your own mirror / and each will smile at the other's welcome," - LAL by Derek Walcott
• "Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart / to itself" - LAL by Derek Walcott
• "Peel your own image from the mirror" - LAL by Derek Walcott
• "Sit. Feast on your life." - LAL by Derek Walcott
• 'Should 10 red padded satin hearts arrive with sticky sickly saccharine/Sentiments ' - IWTYFAV
• 'I wouldn't be eighteen again for anything' - IWTYFAV
• 'declared your Love Eternal' - IWTYFAV
• 'I wouldn't thank you, I'd melt.' - I wouldn't thank you for a valentine
• "Bright star, would I were as steadfast as thou art -" Bright Star by John Keats
• "Gazing on the new soft-fallen mask / Of snow upon the mountains and moors" - Bright Star
• "No - yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, - Bright Star
• "Awake for ever in sweet unrest, / Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath," - Bright Star
• "And so live ever - or else swoon to death" - Bright Star
• "So you make perfect the present - condense." - Now by Robert Browning
• "This tick of our life - time's one moment you love me!"- Now
• In a rapture of rage, for perfections endowment - Now
• When ectasy's utmost we clutch at the core - Now
• While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips meet! - Now
• "I get tearful when I've downed a drink or two" - In Paris with you by James Fenton
• "If we sod off to sodding Notre Dame" - In Paris with you
• "Learning who you areLearning what I am" - In Paris with you
• "Don't talk to me of love." - In Paris with you
• "And resentful at the mess I've been through" - In Paris with you
• "Next to my own skin, her pearls" - Warming Her Pearls by Carol Ann Duffy
• "My slow heat entering each pearl" - Warming her pearls
• "Slack on my neck, her rope" - Warming her pearls
• "My faint, persistent scent / beneath her French perfume, her milky stones" - Warming her pearls
• "All night / I feel their absence and I burn" - Warming her pearls
• He gave me a boon i valued more - A song by Helen Maria Williams
• Why wander riches to obtain - A song