

"Habitation" by Margaret Atwood at the back where we squat outside, eating popcorn The language is simple yet evocative, putting a strong metaphor in the reader’s mind and facilitating a deeper understanding of Arnold’s feelings. In this piece, Arnold recounts a moment with his partner that makes his love grow even stronger. The raw honesty of Craig Arnold’s poetry makes ‘Bird-Understander’ an easy pick for our list of the most beautiful love poems. If only I could show you how very useless they are not You have offered them to me I am only giving them back "Bird-Understander" by Craig Arnold These are your own words your way of noticing and saying plainly of not turning away from hurt In ‘Come, And Be My Baby’, Angelou beautifully captures how overwhelming modern life can be and the comfort that love can provide during times of hardship - even if only for a moment.

Maya Angelou was one of America’s most acclaimed poets and storytellers, as well as a celebrated educator and civil rights activist.

In fact, almost every line Hardy traced upon his tremendous map of love was posthumous, and though several great poets, Donne and Milton among them, have left individual tributes to their dead wives, there is nothing in all literature to compare with Hardy’s elegiac commemoration of Emma, of which what is now the most celebrated part appeared, as Poems of 1912–13, not long after her death to be supplemented by a steady stream of others until Hardy’s own death in 1928.Discover which poem best fits you in this quiz. Only four poems, two certainly and two very probably about her, were published in her lifetime, and it is most unlikely that she saw more than a few others in manuscript. Of all this passionate outpouring Emma herself - and it is a truly terrible irony - can have seen scarcely a trace.

At least 80 of these are avowedly about their courtship and marriage 20 or so more may, with reasonable certitude, be ascribed to the same creative origin. Thomas Hardy wrote about a hundred poems about Emma Lavinia, his first wife over a tenth of his entire lyric oeuvre.
