7 Unforgettable Love Poems for Every Mood.

Desperation

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Believe it or not, these darkly beautiful lines are actually part of a honeymoon poem, composed on England’s Dover Beach shortly after the poet’s wedding in 1851. Maybe his new wife, Frances Lucy Wrightsman, was charmed by Arnold’s bleak passion, because their marriage lasted 37 more years and produced six children.