She’s just . No matter where you see a Red Rose . This expressive love poem would make a wonderful ode to a woman who has stolen your heart in every way. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), The most anthologized poem of the last 25 years, the most thoroughly pillaged piece of literature in English, Salvatore Scibona and Victor LaValle Talk War, Grad School, and the Inner Lives of Children, C. Riley Snorton and T Fleischmann Talk Gender, Freedom, and Transitivity. (Or Dangerous Minds or Independence Day? Otherwise known as “the most thoroughly pillaged piece of literature in English.” Just ask our hero Joan Didion. Jim Powell). So for those of you who were not present for our epic office argument, I have listed some of them here.

Anything but tradition, this one tells a powerful story about love and forgiveness. The most famous poem, and a terribly beautiful one, by our country’s first African-American Poet Laureate (though the position was then called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress). This sonnet by famed Chilean poet Pablo Neruda uses vivid imagery to convey a deep lust and affection. Still the most iconic nonsense poem ever written.

We know, we know, it’s all your parents’ fault. O Gather Me the Rose by William Ernest Henley. READ NOW. Dont forget to view our wonderful member Rose poems. But if you look onto a Yellow Rose Blake famously wrote music to go along with his poems—the originals have been lost, but this verse has been widely interpreted by musicians as well as repeated to many sleepy children. Cummings, "Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name" by Edmund Spenser, "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet, "Variations on the Word Love" by Margaret Atwood, "[Love is More Thicker Than Forget]" by E.E. Reptiles And Roses by Robert William Service.

Oprah Magazine participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Like Dickinson, we could have put several of Shakespeare’s sonnets in this slot. Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency“. I also excluded book-length poems, because they’re really a different form. Were you touched by this poem? The literary Internet’s most important stories, every day.