Love Poetry
Top Love Poems
The Alphabet Starts with You and Me
by PoeticRizz
The alphabet starts with a,b,c. The numbers go like 1,2,3. How about love starts with you and me?
A modern, minimalistic love poem that captures the innocence and universality of affection using a playful tone.
Sonnet 18
by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate...
Shakespeare's most famous sonnet compares the beloved to a summer's day, ultimately concluding that the beloved's beauty is more perfect and will be immortalized through the poem itself.
Love One Another
by Khalil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls...
Gibran's poem speaks to a more mature understanding of love, one that respects individuality within unity.
i carry your heart with me
by e.e. cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it...
Cummings uses his characteristic style to express how the beloved's heart is always with him, creating a sense of permanent connection despite any physical separation.
When You Are Old
by W.B. Yeats
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book...
Yeats writes of a love that persists into old age, asking the beloved to remember the depth of his feelings even as time passes.
Bright Star
by John Keats
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night...
Keats compares his desire to remain eternally with his beloved to the steadfastness of a star, creating a powerful image of constancy in love.