Love Poetry
Top Love Poems
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.