but it’s also one of his most beautiful and iconic love poems. Want to express deep affection? Forget those funny roses-are-red poems and start with one of the English language’s literary giants.

He then read his poem, which went something like this: “Roses are red / Violets are blue ... It doesn’t have to be serious, or beautiful, or thought-provoking, or “inspiring.” ...

The internet has more love poems that you could shake a diamante ... English cryptographer Leo Marks wrote these beautiful verses in Christmas 1943, just after the death of his girlfriend, Ruth ...