The 20 best romantic love poems of all time

Quote these masters to your partner and consider that romance was delighted.


Sometimes the sincere note notewant to ToWrite your partner is not the sincere note that comes out. Unless you are a Mastermith word, just as long as you can do when you put a pen (or thumb on the phone screen). Fortunately, when you suffer from the writer block, there are innumerable masters whose romantic poems can do the job for you. And while you might think thatciting the best love poems Never write is not as impressive as making your own missive, consider two things. First of all, you can never go wrong with a classic. Second, just proving that you know that something about poetry is required to impress.

So, if you are looking for something to put in a birthday card or just wantingspice up your text gameThese love poems will make you sound like the romantic hopeless you would like to be.

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"I'm not at you" -sara teasdale

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InThis romantic poem,Sara Teasdale Want to be so in love that she loses completely herself, a romantic notion that is better in theory than in practice. But hey, it's the thought that counts.

Extract:"I'm not yours, not lost in you, / not lost, although I can be / lost as a candle lit at noon, / lost as a snowflake in the sea."

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"I'm wearing your heart with me (I wear it)" - E.e. cumrings

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sometimesWhen you are in loveThe feelings you have for another person permeate your clock time. If you have already felt this way, you'll know whatE.E. cumrings Talk about "I wear your heart with me (I wear it)). "

Extract:"I wear your heart with me (I wear it in / my heart) I'm never without her (anywhere / I'm going to go, darling."

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"Amorti LXXV: One day I wrote his name" -Edmund spenden

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Everyone can not immortalize their worship of their partner with a poem that will live 400 years after their death, butEdmund Spendser managed it with "Amighteti LXXV: One day I wrote its name. "

Extract:"One day, I wrote his name on the strand, / but I came the waves and washed it: / I wrote it with a second hand, / but I came the tide and made my pains its prey."

4
"Always for the first time" -andre Breton

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If you have already witnessed to dream of the imaginary person, you will meet and fall madly in love with a day, you will want to read one moreAmbitious love poems throughAndré Breton.

Extract:"You come back to one hour from the night to a house at a corner of my window / a fully imaginary house / This is where only a second to the next / in the obscurity invioiled / I anticipate once In addition the fascinating happening / the one single rift / in the facade and in my heart. "

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"Music, when sweet voices die" -Percy Byshe Shelley

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Just like the smell of a certain scent can remind you anyone who wearing it, sometimes, memories of a person are so strong that you remember them with perfect clarity, even if they are not there. What's thisPercy Byshe Shelley written on one of hisDarkest love poems.

Extract:"The rose leaves, when the rose is dead, / are heaps for the bed Belovèd; / and so your thoughts, when you left, / The love itself slept."

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"How I love you?" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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If "" until death is part of "Always seemed to cut things a little short for you, you will appreciatethis sonnet throughElizabeth Barrett Browning, who hoped she would be "but love you better after death".

Extract:"How do you love you? Allow me to count the ways. / I love you at the depth and the width and height / my soul can reach, feeling out of sight."

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"Love Sonnet Xi" -Piblo Neruda

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To be overcome with the desire of all aspects of a person is an inevitable part to have a serious crush on someone, andPablo Neruda describes this feeling perfectly in "Love Sonnet XI. "

Extract:"I stop your mouth, your voice, your hair. / Silent and hungry, I search the streets. / The bread does not feed me, the dawn disturbs me, all day / I hunt for the liquid measure of your Marches. "

8
"Be in love" -Gwendolyn Brooks

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This poem throughGwendolyn Brooksshould resonate with anyone who has already had to sit on saying "I love you" to someone for the first time.

Extract:"To be in love / is to touch a lighter hand. / In your stretch, you are well. / You look at things / through his eyes. / A cardinal is red. He knows it too. "

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"Sonnet 130" -William Shakespeare

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We can not all be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, a fact evenWilliam Shakespearewas ready to admitthis sonnet. But beauty comes in many forms.

Extract:"I grant I have never seen a goddess leave; / My mistress, when she walks, walk on the floor: / And yet, by the sky, I think my love as rare / like any which she was sick with false compared. "

10
"She walks in beauty" -Lord Byron

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If you have ever felt that the beauty of someone was beyond comparing anything on earth, you will relate toLord Byron "She walks in beauty, "As he compares his lover to" the night of climates without clouds and starred heavens. "

Extract:"It walks in beauty, like night / climates without clouds and starry skies; / and all that is better of dark and brilliant / meets in its appearance and eyes."

11
"Further and again" -rilke

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In "Again and again, "RilkeExplain that love gives us hope, even when everything around us seems dark and hopeless - a valuable conviction to take with us through life every day.

Extract:"Further and again, however, we know the landscape of love / and the small site of the Church, with its sorrow names, / and the silent frightening abyss in which the others / falls: again and again the two d 'between us come out together. "

12
"Before coming" -Faiz Ahmed FAIZ

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Sometimes falling in love can improve all our life. Fortunately, it does it for the best in one of the best love poems byFAIZ AHMED FAID, "Before coming. "

Extract:"Stay. So, the world can become again like itself: / so the sky can be the sky, / the road a road, / and the glass of wine not a mirror, just a glass of wine."

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"Variations on the word love" -Margaret ATWOOD

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"Variations on the word love"Was a poem for anyone who has had the impression of love is not the word to describe your feelings for someone, because you" like Spaghetti.Margaret Atwood Written the shortcomings of the word, saying "you can rub it on your body and you can also cook with it too."

Extract:"This word / is far too short for us, it has only / four letters, too sparse / to fill these deep vacuum cleaners / vacuum cleaners between stars / who press us with their deafness. / This is not the love that we do not want to fall into, but this fear. / This word is not enough but it goes / must do. "

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"If I could tell you" -W.H. To allow

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RememberThis poem of love throughH.H. To allow If you have already wanted to offer a reassuring word to someone you like, but you find unable to find the right.

Extract:"Suppose the lions get up all and go, / and all the streams and the soldiers run away; / Time will speak I told you? / If I could tell you that I would let you know."

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"It now sleeps from the crimson petal" -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Those among us who spent fantastly hours about the person we like to know exactly whatAlfred, Lord Tennyson Talk about "Now sleeps the crimson petal, "Who asks his love" slide in his chest and be lost in me. "

Extract:"Now, folds the lily all his sweetness, / and slips into the chest of the lake: / if you bend, my dear, you and slide / in my chest and be lost in me."

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"Distances" -Philippe jaccottet

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You might want to feel that your love goes to the stars and beyond, but the real act of loving someone takes place in the calm moments that you spend together "turning and working" as described in "Distances" throughPhilippe Jaccottet.

Extract:"The heart steals from bird tree / bird to a distant star, / from the star to love; and love grows / in the quiet house, turning and working, / servant of thought, a Lamp holding a hand. "

17
"Come, and be my baby" -Maya Angelou

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Sometimes the chaos of modern life can be too much to support. In "Come and be my baby, "Maya Angelou Written on how love can offer you a cruel respite.

Extract:"Some prophets say that the world will end tomorrow / but others say we have a week or two / the paper is full of all kinds of blossoming horror / and ask yourself / what you are going to do. / I have it. / Come. And to be my baby. "

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"When you're old" -WILLIAM Butler Yeats

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This is one that you can not be ready to quote before a break.William Butler Yeats Write thePerfect romantic poem Send to someone you are sure, one day regrets one day leaving you.

Extract:"A man loved the soul of pilgrim in you, / And I loved the sorrows of your changing face; / and leaning next to the glowing bars, / murmur, a little sadness, how love fled / and Won the mountains above the face head in the middle of a host of stars. "

19
"Echo" -Carol Ann Duffy

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Sometimes you could too long as the "iced fire" of someone's kiss, so much for you to imagine their faces wherever you are. If that is the case, " Echo " through Carol Ann Duffy is the poem for you.

Extract : "Your face, / like / moon in a well / where I could wish ... / Would wish to wish / for the frozen fire of your kiss."

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"It's here" -HAROLD PINTER

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You probably know Harold Pinter As a playwright, but he also wrote romantic poetry. In " It's here "He writes the lasting power of the moment you and your darling met for the first time.

Extract : "What we heard?" It was the breath we took when we met for the first time. / Listening. It's here. "


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