Poetry has been, since time immemorial, a refuge for broken hearts and a means to express the deepest emotions. Among the recurring themes in poetic literature, unrequited love stands out for its ...

Translated by Yone Noguchi, this wistful waka poem encompasses the fragile beauty of lost love. The simplicity and precision of short Japanese poems, and their ability to convey so much in so few ...

Her poem Variations on the Word Love discusses many forms of love, but ultimately, for me, it is a reminder of the awesome power of that emotion. She speaks of how the word "love" - only four ...

If you make a list of love poems, you’re obliged to include ... These lines are a surviving fragment of a larger, lost poem, so what the poet might have “dared” at the end remains a mystery.