Tag Archives: love

How Lit Inspires Courage and Love

Fletcher in “Masterworks” argues that epic narrative can boost courage and lyric disclosure can do the same for love.

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Old Love in Shapes That Renew Forever

A Tagore poem for my wife on her 71st birthday.

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Love Is Not All. But…

Millay makes a strong case against love in her sonnet, but love wins out anyway.

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Hail 48 Years of Wedded Love

As Julia and I celebrate our 48th wedding anniversary, I am put in mind of Milton’s celebration of “wedded love.”

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Devoured by Kisses

Hugging my grandchildren for the first time in over 18 months brought to mind Longfellow’s “Children’s Hour.”

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To Julia, Who Turns 70 Today

I celebrate my wife’s 70th birthday with a Christina Rossetti love poem.

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Can We Love the Morning Again?

In this poem Levertov talks about the difficulties of loving the morning again after a night of horrors.

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The Stars Weep with Happiness

“There are no creatures you cannot love,” Tom Hennen writes in “From a Country Overlooked.” It is a message America currently needs.

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Love in the Time of Covid-19

For my 47th wedding anniversary, I reflect upon the concluding chapter of “Love in the Time of Cholera,” which seems only fitting.

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