His Mistress Going to Bed is his attempt at seduction, undressing his lover across the poem’s lines: “Now off with those shoes, and then safely tread / In this love’s hallow’d temple ...

In one of the most famous love poems of all time, Burns goes all out to express the wonder of love: It’s beautiful like a flower, it’s sweet like music, it’s deep as the sea. And Burns isn ...

From poems to passages from classic books and plays, here are our pick of the best love quotes in literature. Especially when the rest of the world feels dark and scary, literature is the perfect ...