![]() Emily Dickinson, ‘ To lose thee, sweeter than to gain’. ‘Now sleeps the crimson petal’ is a classic erotic and sensual love poem whose ‘fire-fly’ evokes the burning passion of the speaker, while the reference to Danaë suggests sexual union through its reference to Zeus’s coupling with Danaë, with the Greek god disguised as a shower of gold.ħ. This short fourteen-line song from Tennyson’s long narrative poem or ‘medley’, The Princess, is a version of the Persial ghazal form. ![]() Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars, Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost, Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font. Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘ Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white’. In ‘The First Day’, Rossetti longs to remember her first meeting with her lover, but because she didn’t know at the time what a momentous event it would turn out to be, she let it slip away ‘unrecorded’.Ħ. ![]() Many of the greatest and most affecting love poems – even the happy ones – carry an air of regret or poignancy, and this fine, underrated poem by Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is a good example. ![]() That would not blossom yet for many a May … It’s not as obviously a classic love poem as some of the others on this list, but then love can take many forms…įirst hour, first moment of your meeting me, In just six lines, Herrick (1591-1674) reflects on the rather striking effect that his lover wearing silken clothes has upon him. An altogether more sensual poem, this, by one of the seventeenth century’s greatest Cavalier poets. ![]()
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