Find your valentine poems on poetryfoundation.org!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
“My Heart and I” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“An Unexpected Meeting” by Wisława Szymborska
[I carry your heart with me] by E. E. Cummings
[The blind persistence] and [Oh life begins in fluent blood] by Emily Dickinson
And quotes from essays and commentary by Eileen Myles and Gertrude Stein
In our poem samplers you can find Love Poems from Poetry Magazine, Queer Love Poems for Valentine’s Day, Poems to Send the Person You’re Crushing On, and a variety of Break Up, Sad Love, and Friendship poems.
A few of the #poetryvalentines we made at Columbia College’s Center for Book & Paper Arts!
[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in], by E.E. Cummings
Flirtation, by Rita Dove
The Forecast, by Wendy Xu
from “Poems for Blok”, by Marina Tsvetaeva
I have to tell you, by Dorothea Grossman
If, by John Rybicki
Currying the Fallow-Colored Horse, by Lucie Brock-Broido

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