Literature & Translations

Poetry, an art form that is
distinguished by rhythm, rhyme, intensity
of feeling, compression, and the use of refrains, is as old as human
civilization. It is widely believed that poetry originated in song.
Preliterate
societies used poetry to tell stories, record oral history and other forms
of knowledge such as genealogy and law. Most of the world’s scriptures are
composed of poems rather than prose.
Poets have been writing about love from time immemorial. Their compositions,
seeped in the many shades of love, encompass a gamut of intense bonds
including friendship, romantic love, parental love, spiritual love, love of
king and country, and love of nature.
100 Best Love Poems of All Time features some of the finest love poems
written by masters of the form across the ages. Sappho, Horace, Ovid, Dante
Alighieri, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Donne,
Aphra Behn, John Keats, William Blake, WilliamWordsworth, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Heinrich Heine, Victor Hugo, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edgar Allan
Poe, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Christina
Rossetti, Kahlil Gibran, Rabindranath Tagore, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sara
Teasdale, Sarojini Naidu, W.B. Yeats, and a host of other wordsmiths tug at
the reader’s heartstrings in this collection.