What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

Noyes uses clever and vivid imagery to tell the story of the two lovers, evoking so much emotion in the reader, and The Highwayman remains one of my favourite poems ever. My favourite love poem is ...

“A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A the better to read B (we have to start somewhere; we may get very little out of A). We read B the better to read ...