5. Lullaby by W. H. Auden
“Lullaby” was written in the 1930s and is considered one of Auden’s most beloved poems. Zsusza Rawlinson writes that it is “justly famous, melodiously lyrical, and incantatorial.” The poem is started by an introduction from the speaker. The speaker tells his love to “Lay your sleeping head” on the speaker’s “faithless” arm. The poem is a wonderful work by Auden and needs due respect for its greatness.
Lay Your Sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm:
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In their ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit’s carnal ecstasy,Certainty, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry:
Every farthing of the cost.
All the dreaded cards foretell.
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought.
Not a kiss nor look be lost.Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of welcome show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find our mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness find you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.
4. Wild Nights–Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson
Wild nights-wild nights! is a wonderful love poem written by Emily Dickinson. The poem describes deep intense love and passion. The 1861 poem finds a spot in the list of some of the most romantic poems in the world. The poem is little raged and is a violent love poem.
Wild nights–wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
our luxury!Futile the winds
To heart in port–
Done with the compass,
Done with the chart!Rowing in Eden–
As the sea!
Might I moor, tonight,
In thee!
3. Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 147 is one of the sonnets written as a collection of 154 sonnets by one of the greatest poet ever – William Shakespeare. The poet describes the lover as a fever, a disease, an illness and a physician. The inner deep meaning of the poem has been depicted wonderfully and is quite amazing. The poem is one of the best from Shakespeare and his works are always respected.
My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
Th’ uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen’s are,
At random from the truth vainly expressed:
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
2. Love After Love by Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott is one of the world’s best poets and has amazing talent in the writing space. The writer has extraordinary poetic prowess, who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. The poet’s poem titled “Love After Love” found in his Collected Poems: 1948–1984 is a poetic mastery and an amazing love poem that will leave us mesmerized.
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved youall your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
1. I Carry Your Heart With Me by E. E. Cummings
I Carry Your Hear With Me by E.E. Cummings is considered as one of the world’s most favorite love poem and is famous for its romantic words. The poem is one of the most favorite poems during weddings for many years. This poem was written during the 1950s has ever since been popular and world’s most romantic. Cummings is known for his unusual writing style that has been influential. His works are highly valued in the literary world.
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apartI carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)