Here are some beautiful and heartfelt love poems dedicated to secret affairs, those forbidden loves that can't be flaunted in ...

There is a hint of sadness, of course, that these nights cannot actually come to fruition, perhaps due to forbidden love—many scholars believe Dickinson’s romantic poems were actually about ...

Afghan women express forbidden love through secret poems, or landays. Eliza Griswold looks at the words of rebellion that have been passed down for centuries. When sisters sit together ...