Love Poem

Renaissance poets were especially fond of expressing love in sonnets, most notably Shakespeare,who famously compared his love to a rose,a summer's day, perfume,snow, and various species of birds.Romantic era love poems have become some of the most enduring,and oft-repeated, poems ever written in English.Consider this Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem,the first line of which has become so well-known as to be considered the classic love poem cliché:
How do I love thee..?Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height,
My soul can reach.when feeling out of sight..



For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need,by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely,as men strive for right.
I love thee purely,as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs,and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints.I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears,of all my life,and,if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

How better to express one’s feelings of love and passion than through reading and sharing a poem?Countless suitors have used verse to woo a love interest,expressing feelings of desire and longing."Many love poems are actually poems of seduction," writes Marilyn Hacker in the Poets.org exhibit "Eros and the Lyric Imagination,Poems of Love.There are numerous anthologies devoted to love poems,and thousands of websites.