The Flea
John Donne’s “The Flea” turns a biting insect into a daring metaphor for love and seduction, blending wit, irony, and metaphysical depth.
To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” transforms seduction into philosophy, urging lovers to seize life before time and death prevail.
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” reflects on memory, loss, and the quiet ache of vanished love.
When I Was One-and-Twenty
A. E. Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty” reflects on youth, love, and regret through simple, lyrical verse.
Remember
A tender sonnet that weighs remembrance against the kindness of letting go.
Annabel Lee
A lyrical elegy of love and loss in a kingdom by the sea.
Sonnets from the Portuguese (43)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43 explores the depth and endurance of love that transcends both time and death.
Love and a Question
A stranger’s arrival tests a bridegroom’s compassion and fidelity in Frost’s haunting moral parable “Love and a Question.”