Acclaimed Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) wrote this exquisite poem for fiery Irish revolutionary and actress Maud Gonne in 1899. Arguably one of the most beautiful love poems ever ...

This poem embodies that sort of intense, fleeting crush you get on someone that feels as though you know them from a past life. You know nothing about them, only what you imagine them to be like.

The internet has more love poems that you could shake a diamante ... English cryptographer Leo Marks wrote these beautiful verses in Christmas 1943, just after the death of his girlfriend, Ruth ...