πΉ Top 20 Love Poetry Collection
A collection of timeless love poems from the greatest poets in English literature. These public domain works capture the many facets of love - from passionate romance to eternal devotion.
π How Do I Love Thee?
β Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806β1861)
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach..."
β¨ She Walks in Beauty
β Lord Byron (1788β1824)
"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies..."
β Bright Star
β John Keats (1795β1821)
"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou artβ
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night..."
π Love's Philosophy
β Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792β1822)
"The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean..."
π Meeting at Night
β Robert Browning (1812β1889)
"And the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match..."
π The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
β Christopher Marlowe (1564β1593)
"Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove..."
πΉ A Red, Red Rose
β Robert Burns (1759β1796)
"O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June..."
β³ To His Coy Mistress
β Andrew Marvell (1621β1678)
"Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime..."
π» Annabel Lee
β Edgar Allan Poe (1809β1849)
"But we loved with a love that was more than loveβ
I and my Annabel Lee..."
π΅ When You Are Old
β W.B. Yeats (1865β1939)
"But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face..."
βοΈ Sonnet 18
β William Shakespeare (1564β1616)
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate..."
π Sonnet 116
β William Shakespeare
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds..."
π€« Love's Secret
β William Blake (1757β1827)
"Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be..."
π The Good-Morrow
β John Donne (1572β1631)
"I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?"
π₯ To Celia
β Ben Jonson (1572β1637)
"Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine..."
π¬ Love's Language
β Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850β1919)
"Love is the sunlight of the soul,
That brightens every hour..."
π Because I Could Not Stop for Death
β Emily Dickinson (1830β1886)
"Because I could not stop for Death β
He kindly stopped for me β"
πͺοΈ Wild Nights β Wild Nights!
β Emily Dickinson
"Wild nights β Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!"
π To My Dear and Loving Husband
β Anne Bradstreet (1612β1672)
"If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee..."
ποΈ Dover Beach
β Matthew Arnold (1822β1888)
"Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams..."