LOVE POEMS

Question 1

Valentine- Carol Anne Duffey

Answer 1

“not a red rose or a satin heart”
“it is a moon wrapped in brown paper”
“I give you an onion”
“its loops will shrink to a wedding ring”
“its scent will cling to your fingers cling to your knife”

Question 2

Sonnet 43- Elizabeth Barret Browning

Answer 2

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height”
“in old griefs and childhood faith”
“with my lost saints”
“I shall love thee better after death”

Question 3

She walks in beauty- Lord Byron

Answer 3

“she walks in beauty, like the night/ of cloudless climes and starry skies”
“thus mellowed to that tender light”
“one shade the more one ray the less”
“and on that cheek and o’er that brow”
“a heart whose love is innocent”

Question 4

Cozy Apologia- Rita Dove

Answer 4

” I could pick anything and think of you”
“thin as liquorice and as chewy”
chain mail glinting”
“hurricane Floyd”
“they all had sissy names: marcel Percy and dewey”