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That’s Amore: 10 of the Best Love Poems

By LW Willingham 12 Comments

The Best Love Poems

From Romeo and Juliet to Scarlett and Rhett, and from Loretta Castorini and Ronny Cammareri to Westley and Buttercup, all the world loves to love a good love story. Moonstruck lovers through the ages have been writing love poems to woo a beloved. (Or in the tragic tale of the lovelorn like Cyrano de Bergerac, writing romantic poems for someone else to woo his beloved.)

When you’re in the mood for love, we don’t want you to be without a good love poem, so we’ve gathered up a list of ten of our favorites. Maybe you have another you’d like to share in the comments?

Go on, love a little.

Love poems best love poetry books Love Etc

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A Red, Red Rose

O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.

So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.

— read the rest of A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

 

love poem rossettiA Birthday

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;

— read the rest of A Birthday by Christina Rossetti

 

Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

— read the rest of Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

 

16

I lose myself in the space at the base
Of your neck, the wood hollow, a place
Where rainwater collects and birds sing,
The smoothest pool for my longing.

—read the rest of 16 by Dave Malone

 

love poem dickinsonWild Nights, Wild Nights! (269)

Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!

— read the rest of Wild Nights, Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson

To His Coy Mistress

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love’s day.

— read the rest of To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

 

Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:

— read the rest of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

 

Oh You Whom

O you whom I often and silently come where you are that
I may be with you,
As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same
room with you,

— read the rest of Oh You Whom by Walt Whitman

 

love poem barkatReplenish

Remind me, would you,
to buy more of the Peach Momotaro,
with its images of waterfalls, lichen-toned
terraces, waves of mountains imprinted

— read the rest of Replenish by L.L. Barkat

 

Tea, No Sympathy

Oh,

to get tippy in Assam’s best garden,
to unwrap your golden Dikom buds

as I unwind my pearls and purple sari.

— read the rest of Tea, No Sympathy by Maureen Doallas

 

A Line-Storm Song

The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee,
Expend their bloom in vain.
Come over the hills and far with me,
And be my love in the rain.

— read the rest of A Line-Storm Song by Robert Frost

Here’s a bonus love poem, to make it a poet’s dozen (which uses a different kind of math than a baker’s dozen or a florist’s dozen) because no collection of love poems would be complete without a little something from Sara Teasdale.

Barter

Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.

— read the rest of Barter by Sara Teasdale

For more love poems, be sure to visit Best Love Poetry. And if you’re looking for a beautiful Valentine to send to your love, browse the gorgeous collection at WordCandy.

Photo by Vinoth Chandar, Creative Commons License via Flickr.

Love poems best love poetry books Love Etc

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Comments

  1. Maureen Doallas says

    February 13, 2013 at 12:10 pm

    Am so honored to be among these poets. Thank you!

    I’m planning to post a poem tomorrow. Hint: It’s got candy in it.

    Reply
  2. Dave Malone says

    February 13, 2013 at 2:22 pm

    Equally honored. Thank you…

    Reply
  3. L. L. Barkat says

    February 13, 2013 at 8:54 pm

    Can’t wait, Maureen. 🙂

    I was happy to be here, but I was especially enamored of the Teasdale. Love the last line.

    Reply
  4. Krans says

    May 7, 2014 at 8:45 am

    Great items right here. We’re really glad to peer your post. Thanks exactly what looking forward to hint a person. Can you generously fall me a mail?

    Reply
  5. Jody Lee Collins says

    February 13, 2016 at 12:50 pm

    It is so very nice to see poetry from the classics here….along with the contemporaries. I made me run for my Sara Teasdale collection to find ‘Barter’ (which was not in my book~thank you!) but this one was:

    A Prayer
    Until I lose my soul and lie
    Blind to the beauty of the earth,
    Deaf though a shouting wind goes by,
    Dumb in a storm of mirth;

    Until my heart is quenched at length
    And I have left the land of men,
    Oh, let me love with all my strength
    Careless if I am loved again.

    Reply

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