What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

The longest poem ever written is a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic called the "Mahabharata," which clocks in at roughly 1.8 million words. But the poem's daunting length didn't stop Toronto's Why Not ...