Love Poems

Love is one of the most common themes in the history of poetry (and mankind), and for good reason: it is one of the greatest and most basic human conditions. Just about everyone has been loved, loved someone, and has been in love. Naturally, poets have written a great deal on the subject.

Contents

• Love and Romance
• Valentines
• Poems of Parting
• The Broken Heart: Poems of Heartache and Heartbreak
• About the Tour Guide

This Guided Poetry Tour contains poems about love, poems to a loved one, poems about a loved one, romantic fancies, sexual overtures, valentines, and poems of parting, or of being separated from one’s lover.

If you’re feeling down-and-out about love, we’ve got you covered with a selection of poems about heartbreak, heart ache, and general misery due to love.

So whether you’re looking for a poem with which to woo someone, need a poem to send to your valentine, or are feeling blue and need some cheer (misery loves company, after all), then dive in with these suggested love poems.

Love and Romance

A selection of love poems, romantic verses, and ungushy poetry that’s at least a level above “Roses are red…”

• “Sonnet 43 - How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• “She Walks In Beauty” by George Gordon Lord Byron
• “Sonnet 018: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?” by William Shakespeare
• “Jenny Kissed Me” by James Henry Leigh Hunt
• “Song” by Thomas Parnell
• “It Is At Moments After I Have Dreamed” by E. E. Cummings
• “My Love Is Building A Building” by E. E. Cummings
• “My Love” by E. E. Cummings
• “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
• “Song To Celia (II)” by Ben Jonson
• “Love Palpable” by Robert Herrick
• “The Definition Of Love” by Andrew Marvell
• “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
• “To My Dear And Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet
• “Meeting At Night” by Robert Browning
• “The Flea” by John Donne
• “The Ragged Wood” by William Butler Yeats
• “Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love” by W. H. Auden
• “The Bargain” by Sir Philip Sidney
• “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns
• “Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art” by John Keats

Valentines

Poems about valentines, St. Valentine’s Day, and other words that last longer than flowers or chocolates.

• “St. Valentine’s Day” by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
• “Maude’s Valentine” by Ellis Parker Butler
• “To Kate. (In Lieu Of A Valentine)” by Ellis Parker Butler
• “A Valentine” by Edgar Allan Poe
• “To His Fairest Valentine, Mrs. A.L.” by Richard Lovelace
• “A Valentine To My Wife” by Eugene Field
• “A Blue Valentine” by Joyce Kilmer

Poems of Parting

Parting is such sweet sorrow…

• “The Parting” by Michael Drayton
• “The Taxi” by Amy Lowell
• “When We Two Parted” by George Gordon Lord Byron
• “A Dream Within A Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe
• “His Sailing From Julia” by Robert Herrick
• “To Delia: On Her Endeavouring To Conceal Her Grief At Parting” by William Cowper
• “Four Sonnets: 04 (I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear)” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Broken Heart: Poems of Heartache and Heartbreak

Woe is me, here are some poems of heartache, heartbreak, and pining for past or future love.

• “Never Give All The Heart” by William Butler Yeats
• “Adam’s Curse” by William Butler Yeats
• “Meditations In Time Of Civil War: Part VI: The Stare’s Nest By My Window” by William Butler Yeats
• “It Is Funny, You Will Be Dead Some Day” by E. E. Cummings
• “The Dream” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• “Ye Banks And Braes O’Bonnie Doon” by Robert Burns
• “If you were coming in the Fall” by Emily Dickinson
• “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!” by Emily Dickinson
• “Mag” by Carl Sandburg
• “Wind And Window Flower” by Robert Frost
• “Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same” by Robert Frost
• “Sonnet 094: They That Have Power To Hurt And Will Do None” by William Shakespeare
• “Affair With Various Endings” by Kate Northrop
• “To His Coy Love” by Michael Drayton
• “Funeral Blues (”Stop all the clocks…”)” by W. H. Auden
• “Alone” by Sara Teasdale
• “Mediocrity In Love Rejected” by Thomas Carew

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