Recommended Poetry for Lovers

Five Perfect Gift Books of Love Poems to Share With a Beloved

Oct 17, 2009

Communication is important in a love relationship. The best gift is one that shows how you feel. A gift of love poetry to your beloved sends a powerful intimate message.

A carefully selected gift book of love poetry is a choice that is sure to entrance a beloved. Give the book alone or pair it with something that you also know will be special, such as a favorite wine, perfume, aftershave, candy, flowers, music CD, desk item. jewelry. Be careful, though, not to dilute the meaning of the book.

Such a book is itself a special gift, its giving an occasion that delivers an intimate message of the heart.

Note That the Importance of the Gift of Love Poetry is Its Intimacy and Originality, not its Cost

This is the theme for recommending these books.These particular books present a variety of expressions of the physical and spiritual elements of love and romance. Choose the book whose poems resonate with your feelings.

The profound emotions excited within the human spirit by "love" have been described over thousands of years in as many languages.

The timeless quality of poetry is the imagery it can evoke, words in a combination that speak to a person resulting in the reaction of "Yes! That's it, that is what I feel," or, "That explains what I have been trying to put into words!"

Five Special Books of Love Poetry Recommended for Any Couples in Love

The following books are selected and recommended for the beloved of any age and gender. Whether love is new, well-settled, retrospective, savoring or renewing its passion, or contemplating a new phase, there will be poems in these books that resonate in the heart and transport the spirit to that special intimate circle inhabited only by lovers.

"Brand me over your heart, ink me on your skin, for love is strong as death, possessing long past the grave, burning in everlasting flame, beyond the boundary of the sky." Words such as these inspire the feelings and sensual yearning of lovers as ancient as time itself, gathered in the poetry of this lovely book.

This book presents the intimate poems between husband and wife that are universal in their ability to speak to the feelings of committed, still passionate feelings between lovers. In “hymn to her” he says “ . . . I love you truly but most days are merely days, and/ I find my tongue tied up in mundane words/ powerless to reflect my condition in relation to you. I’m affected,/ yes, . . . neither/ in boyish ways, but as a man, and with/a sturdiness of earth,. . ."

She answers in kind, reassuring that his passion is recognized and needed and describing him as, “ . . . my prince as a face I can see…”

This is love and passion that is real and allows each tongue-tied person shy of language to open in the other in a new dimension.

Love songs from The Bible, and the poetry of W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, e.e. cummings, Robert Browning and Maya Angelou, name just a few of the several hallowed offerings collected in this book. There is also Lord Byron’s “The First Kiss of Love,” Charlotte Dacre’s “Passion Uninspired by Sentiment,” and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets From the Portuguese." In short, this beautiful collection cannot fail to impress, delight and inspire one’s object of affection and both halves of the couple together.

Poetry for all stages of the love relationship, Whispers is honest and open, sometimes lighthearted, sometimes poignant. For example, in “Love Is the Music the Heart Makes “ the poet says, “Love is the music the heart sings/ And its music has the sweetest tune around/ If you are attuned and listen carefully/ You can hear its lovely sound. ….”

This book is a satisfyingly eclectic mix of love poetry that is neither saccharine nor typical in approach. Both new and recognized poets are represented in selections of views on love. It will be both a cherished book to give a lover, and a book for lovers to share..

To describe these books so briefly is to skip a stone across deep still waters. They provide a selection worth perusing and perhaps more than one will be the ultimate choice for sharing with a beloved soul mate. They are also well-suited as wedding gifts.

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