Top 40 Love Poetry
💖 Top 40 Love Poetry Collection 💖
Timeless expressions of love from the greatest poets
🌹 Sonnet 18 — William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
💑 Sonnet 116 — William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
✨ She Walks in Beauty — Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies.
😢 When We Two Parted — Lord Byron
When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years.
⭐ Bright Star — John Keats
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night.
🧝♀️ La Belle Dame sans Merci — John Keats
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
🥺 To Fanny — John Keats
I cry your mercy—pity—love!—aye, love!
Merciful love that tantalizes not.
🌊 Love's Philosophy — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean.
💞 To — ("One word is too often profaned") — Percy Bysshe Shelley
One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it.
🌙 Meeting at Night — Robert Browning
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low.
🌅 Parting at Morning — Robert Browning
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim.
💘 How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach.
🌿 Sonnets from the Portuguese 29 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I think of thee!—my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree.
🐑 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love — Christopher Marlowe
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove.
⏳ To His Coy Mistress — Andrew Marvell
Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
🥂 To Celia ("Drink to me only with thine eyes") — Ben Jonson
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine.
💫 Love — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love.
🌹 A Red, Red Rose — Robert Burns
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June.
💋 Ae Fond Kiss — Robert Burns
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, alas, forever!
🌊 My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose (Song) — Robert Burns
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun.
🌅 The Good-Morrow — John Donne
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved?
☀️ The Sun Rising — John Donne
Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
🕊️ A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning — John Donne
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go.
🌠 Song ("Go and catch a falling star") — John Donne
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root.
💑 To My Dear and Loving Husband — Anne Bradstreet
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee.
🌳 Song to Celia — Ben Jonson
It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be.
💕 Song ("Sweetest love, I do not go") — John Donne
Sweetest love, I do not go,
For weariness of thee.
💎 The Definition of Love — Andrew Marvell
My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis for object strange and high.
😔 Sonnet 29 — William Shakespeare
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state.
🍂 Sonnet 73 — William Shakespeare
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang.
😊 Sonnet 130 — William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red.
⏳ Sonnet 65 — William Shakespeare
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'ersways their power.
🏖️ Sonnet 75 — Edmund Spenser
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away.
🎯 Amoretti Sonnet 67 — Edmund Spenser
Like as a huntsman after weary chase,
Seeing the game from him escap'd away.
📖 Sonnet 1 (Amoretti) — Edmund Spenser
Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands,
Which hold my life in their dead doing might.
👶 Lullaby — William Blake
Sweet dreams, form a shade
O'er my lovely infant's head.
🤫 Love's Secret — William Blake
Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind doth move
Silently, invisibly.
👼 The Angel — William Blake
I dreamt a dream! what can it mean?
And that I was a maiden Queen.
🕊️ Song — Christina Rossetti
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me.
💭 Remember — Christina Rossetti
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.
