Did you know the oldest surviving love poem was forgotten until 1951?

Written in 2,000 BC, the world’s oldest love poem was stored unimportantly in a museum drawer in Turkey—until Sumerologist Samuel Noah Kramer saw it. The world’s oldest love poem, etched into a clay tablet, tells a tale of beauty and love, themes that persist in modern poems. Not so much in these funny poems that will perk up your day, though.