Happy Valentine’s Day

Wild nights! Wild nights! 
Were I with thee, 
Wild nights should be
Our luxury! 
 
Futile the winds
To a heart in port,— 
Done with the compass, 
Done with the chart. 
 
Rowing in Eden! 
Ah! the sea!
Might I but moor
To-night in thee!

– Emily Dickinson

Let’s all be shameless saps today. What’s your favorite love poem? Post it in the comments.

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  1. Jennifer says:

    My favorite love poem is a song by French singer composer Francis Cabrel –
    JE L’AIME À MOURIR
    paroles et musique: copyright Francis Cabrel

    Moi je n’étais rien
    Mais voilà qu’aujourd’hui
    Je suis le gardien
    Du sommeil de ses nuits
    Je l’aime à mourir
    Vous pouvez détruire
    Tout ce qu’il vous plaira
    Elle n’aura qu’à ouvrir
    L’espace de ses bras
    Pour tout reconstruire (bis)
    Je l’aime à mourir

    Elle a gommé les chiffres
    Des horloges du quartier
    Elle a fait de ma vie
    Des cocottes en papier
    Des éclats de rires
    Elle a bâti des ponts
    Entre nous et le ciel
    Et nous les traversons
    À chaque fois qu’elle
    Ne veut pas dormir (bis)
    Je l’aime à mourir

    Elle a dû faire toutes les guerres
    Pour être si forte aujourd’hui
    Elle a dû faire toutes les guerres
    De la vie, et l’amour aussi

    Elle vit de son mieux
    Son rêve d’opaline
    Elle danse au milieu
    Des forêts qu’elle dessine
    Je l’aime à mourir
    Elle porte des rubans
    Qu’elle laisse s’envoler
    Elle me chante souvent
    Que j’ai tort d’essayer
    De les retenir (bis)
    Je l’aime à mourir

    Pour monter dans sa grotte
    Cachée sous les toits
    Je dois clouer des notes
    À mes sabots de bois
    Je l’aime à mourir
    Je dois juste m’asseoir
    Je ne dois pas parler
    Je ne dois rien vouloir
    Je dois juste essayer
    De lui appartenir (bis)
    Je l’aime à mourir

  2. Devon says:

    What a great thread!  I’m a bit of a poetry-hater, but I now feel inspired to run out and get me some e.e. cummings. Great Choices.  Nothing good to add, I was going to put down “When you are old” by Yeats, but someone beat me to it.

  3. Anna says:

    Even though my boyfriend, with whom I’ve been with for five years, is the love of my life and the man I’m planning on staying with forever, the person responsible for the most romantic moment of my life is my crappy college ex. And that’s because the night we got together, we were walking back to my house and he stopped in the street, took out the collected e.e.cummings and read me this poem:

    being to timelessness as it’s to time,
    love did no more begin than love will end:
    where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim
    love is the air the ocean and the land

    (do lovers suffer?all divinities
    proudly descending put on deathful flesh:
    are lovers glad?only their smallest joy’s
    a universe emerging from a wish)

    love is the voice under all silences,
    the hope which has no opposite in fear:
    the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
    the truth more first than sun more last than star

    – -do lovers love?why then to heaven with hell.
    whatever sages say and fools,all’s well

    And then he tore the page of out the book and gave it to me. This was almost ten years ago today. We had a typically melodramatic college relationship, and aren’t really in touch any more, but I still have the poem .

  4. First stanza of a poem I wrote back in med school:

    Oh faithful collie at my feet
    Do not wonder why I weep
    For I might tell you, and you must sleep
    Sometimes it hurts to feel so deep

    Um. Love poem to a dog?

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