Great Love Poems Through the Ages

From Sappho on, poems for your Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine’s Day, dear readers. I look forward to this day for its literary riches.

This morning, I am thinking of the wise words of our Poet Laureate, Ada Límon, on love poems from Episode 601 of The Slowdown:

“To this day, I will swear that the hardest poems to write are love poems. Especially when the world feels brutal and desperate and hope is …