Poetry: isn’t it romantic? San Francisco is famous for amour, flirtation, romance and affaire de coeur.
Now is the perfect time to weave romantic poems into your Valentine’s day messages…be bold, be sweet, or be mysterious. Just be certain to ask them to be your valentine.
Choose from this Top Ten List Most Romantic Poems List
1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning “How Do I Love thee? Let me count the ways”
2. Robert Burns, scalding red-hot love poem: “My Red, Red, Rose”
3. Emily Dickinson “I Cannot Live with You”
4. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 “Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?”
5. Sir Walter Raleigh “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
6. Billy Collins “Litany”
7. William Wordsworth, "Daffodils"
8. W.H Auden’s “Funeral Blues”
9. Francis William Bourdillon “The Night has a Thousand Eyes”
10.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Day is Done”
Dear Valentine – Choose one poem, commit it to memory and display your poetry prowess – now.
Poetry is the shadow cast by out streetlight imaginations. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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