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Most Beloved Love Poems of All Time

A List of the Top 11
By CAMERON CASWELL, AOL HOMEWORK HELP
Posted: 2008-05-29 15:42:47
Do you struggle to find the right words to express the way you feel about that special someone? Does the thought of saying "I love you" get you tongue-tied? If so, why not turn to the experts for inspiration? From Shakespeare to Shelley, here are some of the most treasured love poems of all time to spark the romantic in you.

Countdown of the Top 11 Love Poems:

11. 'Did Not' by Thomas Moore

"'Twas a new feeling—something more Than we had dared to own before, ... "

10. 'Lines from a Notebook' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace, and soliloquy ... "

9. 'Last Sonnet' by John Keats

"Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, ... "

8. 'To Celia' by Ben Jonson

"Kiss me, sweet: the wary lover Can your favours keep, and cover, When the common courting jay All your bounties will betray ... "

7. 'A Red, Red Rose' by Robert Burns

"O, my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: O, my Luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune ... "

6. 'When You Are Old' by William Butler Yeats

"When you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; ... "

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