Welcome to Love Poems - you will find a selection of romantic love poems at Poem4Today.
Here are two classic short love poems, followed by some poetry that's a little more contemporary:-
A Sonnet by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough wings do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hote the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or natures changing course untrimm'd: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest, Nor shall death brag thou wandrest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
My True Love hath my heart and I have his by Sir Philip Sidney
My true love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given. I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven. My true love hath my heart and I have his.
His heart in me keeps me and him in one, My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides: He loves my heart, for once it was his own, I cherish his because it in me bides.
My true love hath my heart, and I have his.
Love Author Unknown
Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad. It settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weakness. Love is content with the present. It hopes for the future and it doesn’t brood over the past. It’s the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and working toward common goals.
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it is not enough, so search for it, ask God for it, and share it!
A contemporary poem about what it means to be in love. It's is also a favourite for summing up just what is so special when we are loved:-
Love by Roy Croft
I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you.
I love you, Not only for what You have made of yourself, But for what You are making of me.
I love you For the part of me That you bring out; I love you For putting your hand Into my heaped-up heart And passing over All the foolish, weak things That you can't help Dimly seeing there, And for drawing out Into the light All the beautiful belongings That no one else had looked Quite far enough to find.
I love you because you Are helping me to make Of the lumber of my life Not a tavern But a temple; Out of the works Of my every day Not a reproach But a song.
I love you Because you have done More than any creed Could have done To make me good, And more than any fate Could have done To make me happy. You have done it Without a touch, Without a word, Without a sign. You have done it By being yourself. Perhaps that is what Being a friend means, After all.
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