Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. This sonnet from English poet John Donne (1571–1631) isn’t a conventional love poem but rather a love poem dedicated to God. On the surface, the narrator ...

A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea ...

Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den? 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Finally a biography of John Donne that captures his eccentricities ... that she offers corrections to the hackneyed interpretations of the split between Donne’s love poetry and his spiritual poetry as ...

This essay aims to discuss how Donne presents love in his love poems as he relates love to concrete particulars and secular experiences in a metaphysical approach. At the end, in Donne's love poems, ...