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“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge,” – Plato
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
Longing for a lover, wishing for a romance. That desire can come across passionately in written expression, especially in poetry. When I went to research romantic poetry, it kept leading me to a popular style of poetry in the late 1700, early 1800s with a focus on beauty of nature and human emotions.
Then I researched longing and desire and how it is expressed in poetry – it can be romantic, sensual, sexual, philosophical, and even perplexing.
Expressing longing, desire, wishing for a lover is a sentiment that we’ve experience at one time or another, but I think it starts with the romantic period, with historical poets who weren’t afraid to go there.
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Welcome to National Poetry Month! The month was established in 1996 to recognize poets and the accomplishments of poetry. Romantic poetry was born out of the romantism movement in the late 1700s, early 1800s. Some poets during these times include Keats, Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and coming in a bit later on the tail end, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Emily Dickinson considered herself influenced by these poets.
The Romantism movement can be summed as a stimulating time to explore nature, human emotion, and was a reaction to neoclassical poetry which focused on intellect.
The big 3 concepts that these romantic poets explored were nature, the imagination, and escapism. Human emotion wraps itself around all of these concepts and finds itself interpreted by the poet. Exploring desire and longing were not neglected.
From Sonnet 43, Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barret Browning:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
From Ode to a Grecian Urn, John Keats: What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Ah, desire, that feeling of wanting or wishing something to happen. Longing is that desire to achieve something unobtainable. We all wish for that true love; we all long for that perfect lover to complete us. How we express such in modern poetry can be romantic, sensual, sexual, philosophical, and even perplexing.
From Near, Carol Ann Duffy: Far, we are near, meet in the rain
which falls here; gathered by light, air;
falls there where you are, I am;
Air and Angels" By John Donne: Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name;
How we express longing, desire, wanting, wishing in poetry is up to our style and emotional state of being. Be creative with the visuals. Let the classic inspire, but finding your own voice will be most rewarding.
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Feedback from my Romance/Love NL dated 19 MAR 2025 “Wealthy”:
iKïyå§ama  Thanks so very much for featuring my story in your excellent newsletter! 
Spiritual Dawning  I always listen to my heart. I have met Princess Diana, but very briefly. She walked past me and looked directly at me and smiled, then she was gone. She was known as "The People’s Princess" ....
Feedback from my Newsfeed 10 APR 2025: Who is your favorite romantic poet? Why? Share a romantic poem.
Patron Of Lost Clauses  I enjoy the humorous poetry of Robert Service.
tj wanderlust-words-in-motion 
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
By Richard Lovelace
Tell me not (Sweet) I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind
To war and arms I fly.
True, a new mistress now I chase,
The first foe in the field;
And with a stronger faith embrace
A sword, a horse, a shield.
Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee (Dear) so much,
Lov’d I not Honour more.
Spiritual Dawning Check out "Novalis".... A great German romantic poet, 1800's
Raven 
Upon Julia's Clothes
By Robert Herrick
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Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes, and see
That brave vibration each way free,
O how that glittering taketh me!
Kåre เลียม Enga 
I tend to love bittersweet and melancholy. So, John Keats and "Ode to a Grecian Urn" suit me.
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Keats wrote this in 1819. He died in 1821 at the age of 25.
And the more famous lines at the end:
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
StephBee is a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. Her story, "A Polish Heart," takes place in Warsaw, Poland. When Darrin falls in love with his Polish interpreter will an ocean keep them apart?
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