Which of these American poets wrote the most romantic poems?

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Bryan

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I haven't read poetry much at all, but I would like to start. I made a list of poets that I'd like to start with, and I'd like for someone to help me narrow it further. Right now I want to read romantic poems, the type you might read aloud to someone.

E. E. Cummings
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Gertrude Stein
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Herman Melville
Langston Hughes
Louisa May Alcott
Mark Twain
Maya Angelou
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Phillis Wheatley
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Stephen Crane
T. S. Eliot
Walt Whitman

Thanks!
 
Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson

If you what you really want is a romantic poem to read aloud (or even memorize and recite) to someone AND you are using this as a way to express yourself, try Margaret Atwood's "Variations on the Word 'Sleep'", "A Late Aubade" by Richard Wilbur, or...oh jeez, there are like a million poets out there. You really have to just read some and decide what you like. I recommend the site below.
 
From your list, I would suggest Whitman, Frost and Angelou. Emerson was better known for his essays than for poetry. And Twain for his wit and his politics.
 
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