INTRODUCTION: Love. Love is generous, boundless and is one of the greatest gifts you can get from God, however when you are in love anything can happen. And that's exactly how poets Mariam Waddington, Alfred Tennyson's "Thou Didst Say Me" and "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" explore their poems. Both bring conflicting feelings to the table regarding love relationships and ultimately provide a unique testimony on the topic of love. PARAGRAPH NO. 1 The common factor found in these two poems were in fact metaphors. Writers Waddington and Tennyson both apply them to accentuate crucial opinions that influence love relationships. In the third stanza, line one Waddington writes, “as late as last autumn…”, yet earlier in the poem he had written, “Late as last summer.” Autumn is therefore a metaphor for the different phases of life; spring represents childhood, summer young adulthood and in this case autumn represents middle age as winter would represent death. Metaphorically speaking, when the season changed from a happy summer to a dry autumn, their relationship changed too. And we all agree that as long as the clock keeps ticking, time can change everything, even love. In Tennyson's poem the fourth stanza, line two, mentions, "A shining furrow, like thy thoughts in me." This charmingly written metaphor refers to the author and his significant other. Tennyson uses a farmer's tractor that makes furrows on the ground to relate to his senses as the furrows of his thoughts have left a bright trace in his mind.PARAGRAPH #2In Waddington's poem he tells his story by expressing a paradox, alliteration and ironies . The speaker uses paradox, “the delicate delicate serpent of your lip… in the center of the paper… the man's chest but in the poem it is referred to as a lake, the lake in which the water lily sank . Tennyson uses all of this to create his “love story,” which of course is tinged with the same beautiful, restful atmosphere of twilight and ever-deepening darkness filled with stars. Conclusion: These poems have several similarities, as well as their differences. . Mariam Waddington's "Thou Didst Say Me" shows that love is excessively joyful but also heartbreaking and despondent. On the other hand, “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal” by Alfred Tennyson depicts a sweet, calm and beautiful love story. Both offered their part of the deal: mixed feelings towards love relationships at the table and, in the end, delivering a unique testimony on the topic of love. And as always love can have its golden tragedies, but you always remain in control of your feelings of love.