"Love Poems Plumb The Passionate Depths Of The Soul"
Love poems exist in all cultures. Poetry comes from a Greek word meaning "to make". Poetry comes in many forms from the Japensse Haiku to the epic poems of Homer. But the most passionate of all is the love poem. It can be a sad poem about unrequited love or a sensual sexy poem by e.e. cummings. Poems concerning the outpouring of love cover the passions of both men and women. Love poetry must number in the millions. We only link to a few, but they are some of the best in the world... The most famous love poet in Greece was Sappho. She wrote primaarily for women and her poems still have meaning today even though they were written thousands of years ago. Ladies have been known to swoon because their emotions and desire overwhelmed them. Love poems are stimulate powerful emotions. Sappho's description:
My blood with gentle horrors thrilled; My feeble pulse forgot to play; I fainted, sunk, and died away. Technically, her poems should be performed with a Lyre, a small harp. Lyric poetry is named because of the Lyre. Aphrodite was the goddess of love, beauty, and sexual desire. Many of Sappho's poems were written to her Immortal Aphrodite, on your elegant throne, daughter of Zeus, weaver of wiles, I beg you not to crush my spirit, mistress, with pain or anguish, but come, if ever before you heard my voice singing from far away and listened, and leaving our father’s golden house, you came in your chariot . . . . . . And you, blessed one, a smile on your immortal face, asked what was wrong with me again, why I was calling again, and in my maddened heart what I most wished to happen to me: "Whom must I persuade this time and lead back to your love? Sappho, who is wronging you? If she flees, soon she will pursue; if she does not take gifts, soon she will give them. If she does not love, soon she will love, even against her will. Elizabeth Barret Browning wrote a beautiful love poem in the 18th century, titled "How Do I Love Thee" How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Here are some more love poems. Several sexy love poems by the American 20th century poet and artist e e cummings can be found here. Love sonnets from the immortal bard, Shakespeare. Johm Donne claims no man is an island. Do it now says the 18th century love poet Robert Herrick The spinster bard of the Berkshires, Emily Dickinson Zoe Atkins, a forgotten broadway playwright. Is there a tiger in your tank? Get those aphrodisiacs. A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou... Inventor of the detective story, horror story master... The mother of immunology was also a poet adventurer... The 20th centuries greatest poet, maybe not...> Poet, Diplomat, lawyer, abolition brief, he almost was an indian chief... This noble poet, a knight in shining armor, saves a damsel in distress... This poor man had his head chopped off for talking to the wrong people in Elizebethan England... Although this poet was crippled with a club foot, he was very popular with the fair sex... Love Poetry Love Poems... Return to Home From Love Poems
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