Marie Claire's guide to booty call poems

If reading poems about love is awesome and actually being in love is even better, then what could top receiving poems about love from you beloved?  Nothing, suggests dating blogger and novelist Maura Kelly. "I'd take a man who knows his cunning linguists well over one who is an expert at that other thing any day of the week," she writes. Kelly and her poet friend Erika Meitner have culled the best love poems for every phase of a relationship for Marie Claire, taking us from euphoric beginning to bitter end:

There's Yeats if you're looking for something sincere and romantic -

WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read...

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

or  a little something saucy from e.e. cummings if you're feeling kind of smutty:

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.

And then there's this untitled poem by Jill Alexander Essbaum for the peeved:

The heart that's had
Enough
Stays shut.