LOVE

So, today being Valentine's Day, I thought it appropriate to share with you all my favorite LOVE poems. However, I've heard that poetry is the food of love, but I've also heard that music is the food of love. So, I've decided to include my favorite love songs as well. Hope you enjoy them!!!

Sonnet 116~ William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters where it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

Oh no! It is an ever fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is not shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out, even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

"The Way you Look tonight"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDh4GC7n0ig

"When I Fall in Love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfAb0gNPy6

She Walks in Beauty ~ Lord Byron SHE walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that 's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light	5
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;	10
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,	15
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

Sonnet #43 ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints!---I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!---and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

"Everything"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPUJIbXN0WY

"All I Do is Dream of You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO8xHwijBa8

"Unforgettable"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfu4V3CmHso&feature=related