B&A: What is your favorite love poem?

if you really like reading unconventional love poems, then i guess love poems by John Donne would be the best. He had a different take on love and it truly reflects in his poems like, 'To his Mistris Going to Bed', The Extasie Donne, 'The Good-Morrow'. Try reading

Atlas by U.A Fanthorpe

There is a kind of love called maintenance

Which stores the WD40 and knows when to use it

Which checks the insurance, and doesn’t forget

The milkman; which remembers to plant bulbs;

Which answers letters; which knows the way

The money goes; which deals with dentists

And Road Fund Tax and meeting trains,

And postcards to the lonely; which upholds

The permanently rickety elaborate

Structures of living, which is Atlas.

And maintenance is the sensible side of love,

Which knows what time and weather are doing

To my brickwork; insulates my faulty wiring;

Laughs at my dryrotten jokes; remembers

My need for gloss and grouting; which keeps

My suspect edifice upright in air,

As Atlas did the sky.

Even though it's more about Victorian society than love and the romantic subject matter is a bit creepy, I ADORE The Love Story Of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. It's my favorite poem - the imagery is so intense. I couldn't find a good link to post that has the text in its entirety, but you can probably find it somewhere.

BQ: My favorite love song is Look At You by the Screaming Trees: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XXMnEUD0qE It is a BEAUTIFUL song. Absolutely lovely, every note and every lyric. Very 90's :)

Favorite Long Songs:

7 things by Miley Cyrus

Every time you lie by Demi Lovato

Wouldnt Change a thing by Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas

Love Story by Taylor Swift

Right Thru Me by Nicki Minaj

Personally my favourite "love" poem (if you can call it that) is Robert Browning's "The Laboratory" (http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_browni...

BQ - Hard one - November Rain by GnR, Poison by Alice Cooper, Every Rose Has A Thorn by Poison, Its All Coming Back To Me Now by Meatloaf (or Pandora's Box or Celine Dion depending on which version you like best)

"The Highway Man" by Alfred Noyes is a fantastic poem, as others have said, but it isn't my favorite.

My favorite poem would have to be "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe, but that could be because I'm a raving Poe fan. It is a little lengthy, but I will post it.

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee--

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love--

I and my Annabel Lee--

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsmen came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulcher

In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,

Went envying her and me--

Yes!--that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we--

Of many far wiser than we--

And neither the angels in heaven above,

Nor the demons down under the sea,

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:

And so, all the night-tide, I lay down by the side

Of my darling--my darling--my life and my bride,

In the sepulcher there by the sea--

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

BQ: I know it's kind of cheesy, but I really love "Like I used to" by A Rocket to the Moon, the acoustic version. You can find that here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgF-mwP005w

Dang it! Someone else beat me to it! But I loooove the "Highwayman"! Lengthy, but very different and very unique. :)

My favorite love song is either "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol, "Over and Over" by Three Days Grace (kind of a love song--in a weird way), and "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley.

I know, my faves are pretty well-known and cliched, but hey, what's the worse it could do?

"The Highway Man" by Alfred Noyes

It's pretty popular, but none of my friends have heard of it

"The Highway Man" by Alfred Noyes as well.