It may be a bad augury to begin with a poem by a loser, but there it is.

“Since There’s No Help,” by Michael Drayton (1563-1631) Here, with a few comments and no apologies, is the list:ġ0 Greatest Poems Ever Written 10. As befits the topic this time, the list is a bit heavy on Romantics and light on those rational Enlightenment types. The poems I have chosen this time cover the full spectrum of responses to love, from joy to anguish, and sometimes a mixture of both.

Like death, love seems to be something most poets know little about for evidence, see their biographies. These should quench your thirst for the best love poems, but don’t take these as some kind of how-to manual in your relationship. If you like a more classical style, well, here I am again, unbowed by the heartfelt, sometimes urgent suggestions for altering my recent “ 10 Greatest Poems about Death.” This time I choose a topic-love-less grim if equally compelling. If you are looking for love poems in more modern language, you will probably find the 10 Best Love Poems of 2021 useful. People are always asking “What are the best love poems?” or “Where can I find something beautiful to say to the woman I love?” or “…to the man I love?”

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