Romantic Poetry Appreciation Pillows

(First signs) (A half loaf of bread, ... a jug and a half of wine, and thou beside me.)

"You're going to hate yourself."

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

When the world is Mud-luscious - e.e. cummings

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

"Out damn Spot

Iliadette.

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

'Say baby - 'come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove, that valleys, groves, hills and fields,woods or steepy mountain yields' - Marlowe.'

Leda knew it was serious when the visited Ikea together.

How a poet works

The Raven in Flight

'I don't know whether to put it in for the Turner Prize or go for the Poet Laureate.'

A.M Gorky

"Swing me with your words."

"Poor dear, she's just discovered all these years she's been the muse for a plagiarist."

'When love is color Blind.'

Lord Byron

Love birds: 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.'

Gavrila Derzhavin

"Hey ChatGPT, compose an eloquent and poetic courtship monologue."

Bob Dylan

Rudyard Kipling

"How come they remember every word of any pop song but not a single line of poetry?"

Fyodor Sologub

"The pompano poached in parchment is very alliterative tonight."

Keats's heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains his sense.

"This year I wrote you a Valentine poem: Flowers are nice, candy divine, but what we really need is a bottle of wine!"

Hopeless Romantic - "I wandered lonely as a hat..."

Ave Atque Vale- Illustrates Beardsley's Translation of Carmen CI of Catullus

Two More Poems from Ted Hughes

With the aid of an abacus, Elizabeth Barrett Browning counts the ways.

Spike Milligan.

Poems to Spookify

Old Yarns