Blushing: expressions of love in poems and letters

Beginning of love. Letter / Ogden Nash to Frances Leonard Nash

First love / John Clare

She was a phantom of delight / William Wordsworth

To Citriodora / Philip Henry Savage

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / William Shakespeare

She walks in beauty / Lord Byron

Feste's song (from Twelfth night) / William Shakespeare

To Celia / Ben Jonson

An hour with thee / Sir Walter Scott

I shall hide myself / Chino Masako

She tells her love while half asleep / Robert Graves

Love comes quietly / Robert Creeley

Kidnap poem / Nikki Giovanni

Where we belong, a duet / Maya Angelou

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In your light I learn how to love / Rumi

In love. Letter / John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Deep in love / Bhavabhuti

To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet

The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe

The good-morrow / John Donne

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I carry your heart with me / e.e. cummings

A sonnet of the moon / Charles Best

Warmth / Barton Sutter

I do not love you / Pablo Neruda

Roadmap / Harryette Mullen

Loving again / Gloria Wade-Gayles

I want to die while you love me / Georgia Douglas Johnson

Alone in love. Letter / Rupert Brooke to Noel Oliver

Separation / W.S. Merwin

A thunderstorm in town / Thomas Hardy

Song / John Clare

Rondeau / James Henry Leigh Hunt

The look / Sara Teasdale

Nineteen / George Bogin

I think I should have loved you presently / Edna St. Vincent Millay

The taxi /

Amy Lowell

Everybody tells me / Lady Sono no Omi Ikuha

Waiting / Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I can't hold you and I can't leave you / Juana Ines de la Cruz

Dream / Langston Hughes

The end of love. Letter / Percy Bysshe Shelley to Harriet Shelley

End of love / Sophie Hannah

Like the touch of rain / Edward Thomas

Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy

May / Christina Rossetti

Heart! we will forget him / Emily Dickinson

Time does not bring relief / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Never again would birds' song be the same / Robert Frost

When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman

When we two parted / Lord Byron

Remembering love. Letter / Charlotte Bronte to Constantine Heger

Stop all the clocks / W.H. Auden

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / William Shakespeare

The first day / Christina Rossetti

Longing / Matthew Arnold

Coat / Vicki Feaver

When you are old / William Butler Yeats

What lips my lips have kissed / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love / Pablo Neruda

I hid you / Miklos Radnoti

I still have everything you gave me / Naomi Shihab Nye.