Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Out of all the love poems for her, this might be the most quoted of all time, with the opening question one of the Shakespeare phrases you undoubtedly know. In the Bard’s famous “Sonnet 18 ...

You can read the rest of this beautiful and ... 19th-century English poet Christina Rossetti is remembered for her love poems, religious poems and poems for the grieving. Rossetti’s “Love ...