Enoch Arden and Other Poems

On her wedding day, Evangeline is separated from her beloved Gabriel when their village is deported. Longfellow's narrative poem follows her lifelong search for him across America.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A man remembers the girl he loved in a kingdom by the sea, a love so strong the angels envied it. Poe's last complete poem, with a short introduction to its meaning.

Edgar Allan Poe

Lancelot and Guinevere, Lancelot and Elaine, Tristram and Isolt: Tennyson retells the loves that brought down Camelot. A cycle of narrative poems full of devotion, betrayal and loss.

Alfred Tennyson

Young Tatiana pours her heart into a letter to Onegin, and he coldly turns her away. Years later, the roles are reversed. Pushkin's novel in verse is the founding love story of Russian literature.

Alexander Pushkin

Dante tells, in poems and prose, how he fell in love with Beatrice at nine years old and how he mourned her death. The book of love and grief that led to the Divine Comedy.

Dante Alighieri