Some lovers are traditionalists, at least when it comes to literature, so when dealing with them, it’s best to go back to the beginning. No one did that more memorably than Lord Byron, whose “She Walks in Beauty” begins with this: If you’re not quite at the kiss-requesting stage, a better move is simply to praise your lover’s beauty. Here’s the second stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Love’s Philosophy.” Has there ever been a more perfect way to request a kiss? Scholars of this literary school will tell you that the term “Romantic” refers to an intellectual style obsessed with inspiration and the sublime, rather than romantic love, but poetry devotees know the Romantics wrote some of the finest love poems in the language. Let’s start with the great Romantic poets themselves.
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