Poems

"I loved you first: but afterwards your love" b...

I loved you first: but afterwards your love Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove. Which owes the other most? my love...

A Poem by Kamand Kojouri

I do not write about love as if I have invented it. I write about love because thoughts of you inspire self-forgetfulness. And because writing about you gives birth to...

"Love After Love" by Derek Walcott

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror,and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit...

A Poem by Sanober Khan

tell meof something fiercer than the love with which i gaze upon youof something softer than the tendernesswith which i hold you.

"for him" by Rupi Kaur

no, it won’tbe love at first sight when we meet it’ll be love at first remembrance ‘cause i’ve recognized you in my mother’s eyes when she tells me, marry the...

For Love of You by James A. Tweedie

Were I to search the world both far and wideAnd chance upon a land of endless bliss—Eternal life without you at my side—For love of you I’d trade that world...