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

Both poets explore love as a transformative and omnipotent force, delving into its complexities and transcendence. Donne ...

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

Some things never grow old, including those classic lines from the John Donne poem written in 1623: “Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.” Each of us, at some stage ...

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Jetstar Adelaide-based pilots Rachel Blair-Wills and Matthew Wills have an uplifting love story for Valentine’s Day — their ...

John Donne’s poetry and the nursery rhyme commencing “The rose is red, the violet’s blue.” Its link to love and romance has fuelled a modern commercial industry of cards, flowers ...