A Book of Poems About Love Lost and Love Found

Is there any emotion that we dream, write, read, think, and sing about more often, more fervently than love? Love appears in so many forms in our lives. It can take the shape of desire and longing; heartbreak and loss; passion and partnership.

For as long as there has been poetry, poets have been writing about this most transcendent, universal emotion. Over the centuries, writers from William Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes have penned poems about love. We love these pieces so much that we partnered with curator Jessica Strand to collect 50 incredible love poems—poems we’ve kept, poems we’ve memorized, poems we’ve read again and again—into a beautifully illustrated anthology, Love Found. The book includes poems by Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Mark Strand. In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are three of our favorite poems from the book: poems that speak to love in all its forms.