Love Poems

  poems about love and lovers

1. Absence, by Amy Lowell

2. Absence, by Claude McKay

3. After a Day We Stay in Bed Until the Sun is Close to Setting, by Lyn Lifshin

4. Aftermath, by Amy Lowell

5. After You're Gone, by Nicholas Gordon

6. Alice, by Aleister Crowley

7. Almighty Love, by Sophocles

8. Alms, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

9. Along the Field as We Came By, by A. E. Housman

10. The Altars of Love's Sacred Grove, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

11. Amoureuse, by Christine Ann Clatworthy

12. The Amulet, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe

14. An Appeal, by Sir Thomas Wyatt

15. Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows, by Thomas Carew

16. As Ye Came from the Holy Land, by Sir Walter Raleigh

17. At Parting, by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

18. Autumn Fruit, by Fernand Gregh

19. Il Bacio, by Paul Verlaine

20. Ballade de la Jolie Marion, by Aleister Crowley

21. Bamboos Up, by Liu Hong-ping

22. The Bargain, by Sir Philip Sidney

23. Beauty, by Alfred Tennyson

24. Because I Love You, by Sarah Knowles Bolton

25. Belated Love, by Clark Ashton Smith

26. Benedictine, by Arthur Symons

27. The Bereaved Lover, by Edwin Curran

28. A Birthday, by Christina Rossetti

29. Breathless, by Walter Wykes

30. The Brightest Beauty of the Plain, by Callimachus

31. Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art--, by John Keats

32. Brown Penny, by W. B. Yeats

33. Bulbs, by Maggie Butt

34. Burmese Love Song, by Arthur Guiterman

35. The Canonization, by John Donne

36. Cards and Kisses, by John Lyly

37. Cherry-Ripe, by Thomas Campion

38. Chop-Cherry, by Robert Herrick

39. The Clod and the Pebble, by William Blake

40. Cloud Lovers, by Walter Wykes

41. Coldness in Love, by D. H. Lawrence

42. Come Back, by Arthur Guiterman

43. The Constant Lover, by Sir John Suckling

44. Count Me, on the Summer Trees, by Anacreon

45. Courtship, by Anna Katherine Green

46. Crowned, by Amy Lowell

47. Dawn, by Arthur Symons

48. Declaration, by Arthur Symons

49. The Definition of Love, by Andrew Marvell

50. Degrees of Love, by Arthur Symons

51. The Departure, by Alfred Tennyson

52. The Depths of Love, by Edwin Curran

53. Diaphenia, by Henry Constable

54. Did Not, by Thomas Moore

55. Dinner at the Hotel de la Tigresse Verte, by Donald Evans

56. Disease of Love, by Sophocles

57. A Divine Rapture, by Francis Quarles

58. Diya, by Amy Lowell

59. Down by the Salley Gardens, by W. B. Yeats

60. Do You Remember Once ..., by Alan Seeger

61. The Dream of a Kiss, by Christine Siebeneck Swayne

62. Ebb, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

63. Echo, by Christina Rossetti

64. The Ecstasy, by John Donne

65. Eleänore, by Alfred Tennyson

66. Eliza, by Robert Gilfillan

67. Elizabeth of Bohemia, by Sir Henry Wotton

68. An Ending, by Arthur Symons

69. Epilogue, by D. H. Lawrence

70. Eros, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

71. Eros Ephemeros, by Kenneth Rand

72. Eternal Lovers, by Witter Bynner

73. Exequy on his Wife, by Henry King

74. The Face of All the World Is Changed, I Think, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

75. The Face of Love, by Frank L. Ludwig

76. False though She Be to Me and Love, by William Congreve

77. Fingers, by Larry D. Thomas

78. The First Day, by Christina Rossetti

79. The First Encounter, by Arthur Rimbaud

80. First Love, by C. B. Langston

81. First Love, by John Clare

82. The First Sweetheart, by Edgar Guest

83. First Time He Kissed Me, He But Only Kissed, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

84. Il fiume d'amore, by Frank L. Ludwig

85. Flower of Love, by Claude McKay

86. Freedom and Love, by Thomas Campbell

87. From One Who Stays, by Amy Lowell

88. Galatea, by Paulus Silentiarius

89. Give All to Love, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

90. Go, Lovely Rose, by Edmund Waller

91. Green, by Paul Verlaine

92. Hands, by Arthur Symons

93. The Hands of the Betrothed, by D. H. Lawrence

94. The Heart I Loved, by John Alexander Joyce

95. The Heart Will Remember, by Andrew Downing

96. Her Eyes Say Yes, by Arthur Symons

97. Her Lover's Step, by James McIntyre

98. Her Reply, by Sir Walter Raleigh

99. Hesterna Rosa, by Arthur Symons

100. Homage, by Gustave Kahn

101. Hora Stellatrix, by Amy Lowell

102. An Hour with Thee, by Sir Walter Scott

103. How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

104. Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea!, by Walter Savage Landor

105. I Cannot Tell, Not I, Why She, by Walter Savage Landor

106. Idealism, by Arthur Symons

107. I Dreamed Your Face, by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

108. If Love Should Fail, by Dollie Radford

109. If Mutable is She I Love, by Walter Savage Landor

110. If Somebody Loves You, by Edgar Guest

111. If This Be Love, to Draw a Weary Breath, by Samuel Daniel

112. If You Were Coming in the Fall, by Emily Dickinson

113. If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Nought, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

114. I Loved a Lass, a Fair One, by George Wither

115. Ilse, by Frank Wedekind

116. Impatience, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

117. Indeed This Very Love Which Is My Boast, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

118. I Never Prize an Easy Fair, by Callimachus

119. Infidelities, by Donald Evans

120. Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

121. In Other Springs, by Carolyn Crosby Wilson

122. In Our Old Shipwrecked Days There Was an Hour, by George Meredith

123. Instinct, by Barbara Neill-Bottle

124. In the First Light of the Morning, by Dollie Radford

125. In the Temple, by Arthur Symons

126. I Turn and Find You, by Witter Bynner

127. Jacqueminots, by John Boyle O'Reilly

128. The Kiss, by Anna de Noailles

129. Kiss, by Francis Howard Williams

130. Kiss III, by Johannes Secundus

131. Kiss X, by Johannes Secundus

132. Kisses, by Arthur Symons

133. Kisses in the Train, by D. H. Lawrence

134. Kissing, by Fred Emerson Brooks

135. The Lady and the Rose, by Edwin Leibfreed

136. Lady Clare, by Alfred Tennyson

137. The Last Kiss, by S. Moore

138. Last Words to Miriam, by D. H. Lawrence

139. Lesbia Railing, by Catullus

140. The Letter, by Robert Birch

141. Leves Amores, by Arthur Symons

142. Liaison, by D. H. Lawrence

143. A Life's Love Song, by Henry O'Meara

144. Lightning, by D. H. Lawrence

145. Lilian, by Alfred Tennyson

146. The Long-Departed Lover, by Li Bai

147. Long Expected, by Gerald Massey

148. Longing, by George Houghton

149. Longing, by Matthew Arnold

150. Lotus Hurt by the Cold, by D. H. Lawrence

151. Love, by Anna Katherine Green

152. Love, by C. B. Langston

153. Love, by Dugald Moore

154. Love, by Edwin Leibfreed

155. Love, by Maxwell Bodenheim

156. Love, by Richard Chenevix Trench

157. Love, by Sappho

158. Love, by S. Moore

159. Love, by William B. Tappan

160. Love, by William Wilsey Martin

161. Love and Reason, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

162. Love and Sleep, by Algernon Charles Swinburne

163. A Lover's Fancy, by Gerald Massey

164. A Lover's Rondeau, by Christine Siebeneck Swayne

165. Love in Winter, by Nellie Seelye Evans

166. Love Is Enough, by William Morris

167. Love Me Not, Love, For That I First Loved Thee, by Richard Watson Gilder

168. Love Much, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

169. Love Never Dies, by Patricia Walter

170. Lover's Dawn, by Kenneth Rand

171. A Lover's Song, by Clinton Scollard

172. Loves, by Theocritus

173. Love's Awakening, by Fernand Gregh

174. Love's Coming, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

175. Love's Counterfeits, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

176. Love's Hiding Place, by Mary Dow Brine

177. Love's Images, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

178. Love's Language, by Ardelia Cotton Barton

179. Love's Language, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

180. Love's Lantern, by Joyce Kilmer

181. Love's Mark, by Anacreon

182. A Love Song, by D. H. Lawrence

183. Love's Philosophy, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

184. Love's Return, by Robert Elliott Gonzales

185. Love's Secret, by William Blake

186. Love's Thoroughfare, by Joyce Kilmer

187. Love's Vagrant, by Clinton Scollard

188. Love Those Who Love You, by Moschus

189. The Love Token, by Theophilus Marzials

190. Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show, by Sir Philip Sidney

191. Madeline, by Alfred Tennyson

192. Magnificat, by Arthur Symons

193. A Match, by Algernon Charles Swinburne

194. Memorial, by Claude McKay

195. The Memory of a Love, by Benjamin Peck Keith

196. A Memory of June, by Claude McKay

197. The Merchant, to Secure his Treasure, by Matthew Prior

198. Mouth and Tongue, by Alisha Sufit

199. My April Love, by Mary Dow Brine

200. A Mysterious Love, by Hafez

201. Mystery, by D. H. Lawrence

202. Never Any Fear, by Elsie A. Gidlow

203. Never Give All the Heart, by W. B. Yeats

204. Nevermore, by Paul Verlaine

205. Nightclub, by Rachel Elizabeth Dakin

206. No Jewelled Beauty is My Love, by Gerald Massey

207. Now, by Robert Browning

208. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White, by Alfred Tennyson

209. The Oath, by John Godfrey Saxe

210. Ode to a Loved One, by Sappho

211. O Flame of Living Love, by Arthur Symons

212. Oh, When I Was in Love with You, by A. E. Housman

213. O Kiss Me, by Benjamin Franklin Field

214. The Old Lovers, by Kenneth Rand

215. On a Girdle, by Edmund Waller

216. Once Loved, by Stephen Crane

217. One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand, by Edmund Spenser

218. One Hour to Madness and Joy, by Walt Whitman

219. On Love, by Mark Akenside

220. On the Doorstep, by Arthur Symons

221. On the Occasion of My Lover's Celibacy, by Chocolate Waters

222. An Open Window, by Emma Jane Denly

223. Out on the Sands, by Mary Dow Brine

224. O! Who That Lookt Could Chance But Love?, by Gerald Massey

225. Passer Mortuus Est, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

226. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, by Christopher Marlowe

227. Phantom Dancer, by Virginia Carlson

228. The Phrygian Rock, that Braves the Storm, by Anacreon

229. Pious Selinda Goes to Prayers, by William Congreve

230. The Poem, by Aleister Crowley

231. A Poet To His Beloved, by W. B. Yeats

232. Poet To His Love, by Maxwell Bodenheim

233. Potent Charms, by Paulus Silentiarius

234. The Power of Love, by Bion of Smyrna

235. Premonition, by Anna Katherine Green

236. Queen of Love, by Euripides

237. A Red Flower, by Claude McKay

238. A Red, Red Rose, by Robert Burns

239. A Rejected Lover's Thought, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

240. Remembrance, by Emily Brontë

241. Renouncement, by Alice Meynell

242. Repletion, by Mark Turbyfill

243. Reproach, by D. H. Lawrence

244. Return, by John Wilmot

245. Romance, by Claude McKay

246. Rose Aylmer, by Walter Savage Landor

247. Rose-Time, by Witter Bynner

248. Ruth, by Thomas Hood

249. Say Over Again, and Yet Once Over Again, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

250. The Secret, by John Clare

251. The Serenade, by Theocritus

252. Severed Selves, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

253. Shadows, by Anna Katherine Green

254. She I Love (Alas in Vain!), by Walter Savage Landor

255. She Walks in Beauty, Like the Night, by Lord Byron

256. Silent Noon, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

257. Silent Torrents, by Conrad Aiken

258. Silent Wooing, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

259. Since She Was Watched, by Agathias

260. Since Words Are Not, by Carolyn Crosby Wilson

261. Singalese Love Songs, by Marjorie Allen Seiffert

262. Siren's Tongue, by Paulus Silentiarius

263. Some People Think that Friends Should Be Just Friends, by Nicholas Gordon

264. Song, by John Donne

265. A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover, by John Wilmot

266. The Sorceress, by Theocritus

267. Soulmate, by Rich Reith

268. So, We'll Go No More A-Roving, by Lord Byron

269. Spirit of Love, by Anne S. Bushby

270. Spoken Love, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

271. Stella Maris, by Arthur Symons

272. The Suicide, by Dugald Moore

273. Summer of Love, by Joyce Kilmer

274. A Summer Song, by George Peele

275. The Sun Rising, by John Donne

276. Surrender, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

277. Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan, by John Gay

278. There Was a Moment, by Prabhath Avadhanula

279. Thine Eyes Still Shined, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

280. The Thirteenth Day, by Aleister Crowley

281. Thou Art Not Fair, for All Thy Red and White, by Thomas Campion

282. Thou Hast Not Forgotten, by C. B. Langston

283. A Thunderstorm in Town, by Thomas Hardy

284. Thy White Arms, by Stephen Crane

285. To ——, by Alfred Tennyson

286. To ——, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

287. To Celia, by Ben Jonson

288. To His Coy Love, by Michael Drayton

289. To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell

290. To His Mistress going to Bed, by John Donne

291. To Mary: I Sleep with Thee, and Wake with Thee, by John Clare

292. To My Love, by John Godfrey Saxe

293. To One in Alienation, by Arthur Symons

294. Too Red, Too Red the Roses Were, by Paul Verlaine

295. The Torments of Love, by Sappho

296. To the Dream Maiden, by Kenneth Rand

297. Transfiguration, by Joyce Kilmer

298. The Touch of You, by Witter Bynner

299. Two Loves, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

300. Undressing, by "alcoholic poet"

301. Undying Love, by Sophocles

302. Untitled, by Douglas Gibson

303. Upon the Sand, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

304. Variations Upon Love, by Arthur Symons

305. Vobiscum est Iope, by Thomas Campion

306. Waiting, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

307. Was Ever Love So Wonderful as This?, by Carolyn Crosby Wilson

308. The Way of Love, by Joyce Kilmer

309. Wedded Love, by Gerald Massey

310. We Outgrow Love Like Other Things, by Emily Dickinson

311. What Love Is, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

312. The Wheel of the Sun, by Amy Lowell

313. When First You Saw the Nymph Divine, by Callimachus

314. When Love and Wine Inspire, by Callimachus

315. When Love Came Back, by Andrew Downing

316. When the First Bird Sang, by Witter Bynner

317. Wherever, Whenever, by Joyce Kilmer

318. Whirlwind, by Til Turner

319. White Heliotrope, by Arthur Symons

320. White in the Moon the Long Road Lies, by A. E. Housman

321. A White Rose, by John Boyle O'Reilly

322. Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?, by Sir John Suckling

323. With What Dull Drugs, by Carolyn Crosby Wilson

324. A Woman Waits for Me, by Walt Whitman

325. Wood Magic, by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

326. Words about Love, by Mark Turbyfill

327. The Writing, by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

328. Yet, Love, Mere Love, Is Beautiful Indeed, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

329. "You Are My Dream," You Said, by Carolyn Crosby Wilson

330. You Breathe, by Anna Vera Williams

331. Your Love Has Come Between Us Like a Bar, by Carolyn Crosby Wilson

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