Let these 6 short poems help you express what's inside ... I'm just a traveler. My words break into a whisper, I love you in silence, in a sweet murmur. And even if you never return my gaze ...

In that vein, Louise Bogan’s “Leave-Taking,” from 1922, is a modern aubade that is also a break-up poem. The lovers, “waking from the sleep of each other,” seem to agree that they would ...