Dark Academia
There is a school for wizards and monsters. The school has a library. It is the Library of Love. Will these poems be on the end-of-term exams?
18 poems
Admonitions to a Special Personby Anne Sexton, 1928 ~ 1974“To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned.”
Habitationby Margaret Atwood, b. 1939“With wonder at having survived this far, we are learning to make fire”
How do I love theeby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 ~ 1861“if God choose I shall but love thee better after death”
How long we were fool'dby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“We have voided all but our own freedom, all but our own joy”
I know you knowby Michelangelo, 1475 ~ 1564“Let the wall between our hopes and desires be battered down.”
I want to die while you love meby Georgia Douglas Johnson, 1880 ~ 1966“Who would care to live til love has nothing more to ask, and nothing more to give.”- Love, mere loveby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 ~ 1861“Let temple burn, or flax and an equal light leaps in the flames from cedar plank or weed. And love is fire.”
Most like an archby John Ciardi, 1916 ~ 1978“All I do at piling stone on stone apart from you is roofless around nothing”
Mysteries, yesby Mary Oliver, 1935 ~ 2019“Let me keep company, always, with those who say 'look' and laugh in astonishment and bow their heads.”
Nowby Robert Browning, 1812 ~ 1889“When ecstasies uptmost we clutch at the core”
Obergefell v Hodgesby Anthony Kennedy, b. 1936“Since the dawn of history marriage has transformed strangers into relatives, binding families and societies together”
Salt Rose and Topazby Pablo Neruda, 1904 ~ 1973“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul”
Song of Wandering Aengusby W.B. Yeats, 1865 ~ 1939“We will pluck til times and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun”
The Wedding Marchby Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 ~ 1889“I to him turn with tears, whose wonder-wedlock deals triumph and immortal years”
Touched by an angelby Maya Angelou, 1928 ~ 2014“Love costs all we are and will ever be, but it is only love that will set us free.”
We are youngby J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892 ~ 1973“We have become as one, deep rooted in the soil of Life and tangled in the sweet growth”
Wedding Toastby Richard Wilbur, 1921 ~ 2017“The world's fullness is not made, but found.”
White Writingby Carol Ann Duffy, b. 1955“No poems written to praise you. I write them white.”