Greatest Love Poems Ever Written

In Love   Wanting Love   Lost Love   Power of Love   Love of Life   Love of Friends


In Love


[Ah, God, the way your little finger moved] Stephen Crane

[Dear, I to thee this diamond commend] Sir John Harrington

[My lady's presence makes the roses red] Henry Constable

[One day I wrote her name upon the strand] Edmund Spenser

22 Emily Dickinson

A Divine Rapture Francis Quarles

A Pretty Woman Robert Browning

A Valentine to My Wife Eugene Field

An Evening Song Sidney Lanier

Annie Laurie William Douglas

At Last Elizabeth Akers Allen

Beautiful Dreamer Stephen Foster

Beautiful Dreamer Stephen Foster

Believe Me, If All These Endearing Young Charms Thomas Moore

Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art John Keats

Cherry-Ripe Thomas Campion

Damelus' Song to Diaphenia Henry Constable

Did Not Thomas Moore

elaborate signings Kenneth Carroll

Elizabeth of Bohemia Sir Henry Wotton

Evening Song Sidney Lanier

First Love John Clare

from Astrophil and Stella Sir Philip Sidney

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W. B. Yeats

Her Triumph Ben Jonson

How Do I Love Thee Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I Love Thee Eliza Acton

I Love You Sara Teasdale

Jenny Kissed Me James Henry Leigh Hunt

La Vita Nuova Dante Alighieri

Life in a Love Robert Browning

Love (3) George Herbert

Love Arm'd Aphra Behn

Love in a Life Robert Browning

Love Me Not for Comely Grace John Wilbye

Love's Trinity Alfred Austin

Lucy  William Wordsworth

Madonna of the Evening Flowers Amy Lowell

Marriage Morning Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Meeting at Night Robert Browning

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Alfred, Lord Tennyson

On Her Loving Two Equally Aphra Behn

Proud Word You Never Spoke Walter Savage Landor

Rose Aylmer Walter Savage Landor

Ruth Thomas Hood

Serenade Edgar Allen Poe

She Walks in Beauty George Gordon, Lord Byron

Silent Noon  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Song William Browne

Song Hartley Coleridge

Song [Secret Love] John Clare

Song of Solomon attributed to King Solomon of Israel

Song: To Celia Ben Jonson

Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare

Sonnet 130 William Shakespeare

Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare

Sonnet 23: Love's Baubles Dante Gabriel Rosetti

Sonnets from the Portuguese, 14 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Tarot Card VI. THE LOVERS Grace Cavalieri

The Bargain Sir Philip Sidney

The Blessed Damozel Dante Gabriel Rosetti

The Definition of Love Andrew Marvell

The Dog Who Listens to Jack Kerouac Gary Fincke

The Lost Thrill James Whitcomb Riley

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Sir Walter Raleigh

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe

The Presence of Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is a Lady Sweet and Kind Thomas Ford

To a Young Lady William Cowper

To Althea, from Prison Richard Lovelace

To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair Richard Lovelace

To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything Robert Herrick

To Celia Ben Jonson

To Helen Edgar Allen Poe

To His Coy Love Michael Drayton

To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell

To His Love Anonymous

To Mary William Cowper

To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet

Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick

Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight? Christopher Marlowe

Without Her Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Wondrous Moment Alexander Pushkin

Wanting Love


A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne

An Argument Thomas Moore

I Would Live in Your Love Sara Teasdale

If Grief for Grief can Touch Thee Emily Bronte

If I Were Her Lover Madison Julius Cawein

In Three Days Robert Browning

Longing Matthew Arnold

Longing Sara Teasdale

Love Me Sara Teasdale

Love Not Me John Wilbye

Love's Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley

Secret Love John Clare

Song Edmund Waller

The Bait John Donne

The Garden of Love William Blake

The Looks of a Lover Enamoured George Gasgione

To Harriet Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Mary John Clare

To Mary: I Sleep with Thee John Clare

Two in the Campagna Robert Browning

Valentine Song Robert Argyle Campbell

Power of Love


[I loved her for that she was beautiful] Philip James Bailey

A Moment to Remember Alexander Pushkin

A Song of Love Sidney Lanier

A Woman’s Last Word Robert Browning

Affirmation Kenneth Carroll

Ah, My Beloved Omar Khayyam

Batter My Heart John Donne

Cristina Robert Browning

Dear Chains Alexander Pushkin

Freedom and Love Thomas Campbell

Give All to Love Ralph Waldo Emerson

I Am Not Yours Sara Teasdale

I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If Paul Laurence Dunbar

In the Garden VI: A Peach Edward Dowden

It’s All I Have to Bring Today Emily Dickinson

It’s Such a Little Thing Emily Dickinson

Late Loved--Well Loved Isabella Valancy Crawford

Lochinvar Sir Walter Scott

Love and Death Sara Teasdale

Love In a Dairy Isabella Valancy Crawford

Love is a Sickness Samuel Daniel

Love Is Enough William Morris

Love Unexpressed Constance Fenimore Woolson

Love-Free Sara Teasdale

My Love is Like to Ice Edmund Spenser

Nuptial Sleep  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Of Pearls and Stars Heinrich Heine

Passing the Orange Len Roberts

Passion and Love Paul Laurence Dunbar

Retort Paul Laurence Dunbar

Season of Love Isabella Valancy Crawford

She Tells Her Love Now Robert Ranke Graves

Sonnet 141 William Shakespeare

Sonnet 153 William Shakespeare

Sonnet 30 Edmund Spenser

Sonnet 46 William Shakespeare

Tell Me No More Henry King

The Dream Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Ecstasy John Donne

The Last Ride Together Robert Browning

The Living Deena Linett

The Moment Len Roberts

The Rose in the Deeps of his Heart  William Butler Yeats

The Sorrow of Love William Butler Yeats

The Sun Rising John Donne

Who ever Loved, that Loved Not at First Sight? Christopher Marlowe

William and Emily Edgar Lee Masters

Writing Letters for the Blind Gary Fincke

Love of Life


A New Hymn for Solitude Edward Dowden

from I Sing the Body Electric Walt Whitman

Life Paul Laurence Dunbar

Lost Love


2 Emily Dickinson

A Dream within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe

A Farewell Coventry Patmore

A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns

A Summer Song George Peele

Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe

At the Mid Hour of Night Thomas Moore

Echo Christina Georgina Rossetti

For Each Ecstatic Instant Emily Dickinson

Heart, We Will Forget Him! Emily Dickinson

I Have Loved Flowers That Fade Robert Bridges

I Leave Thee for Awhile Eliza Cook

I Lost a World Emily Dickinson

I Loved a Lass George Wither

I Loved You Alexander Pushkin

I Loved You Once Alexander Pushkin

I Thought of You Sara Teasdale

If You Were Coming in the Fall Emily Dickinson

Love Arm’d Aphra Behn

Love Lies Bleeding William Wordsworth

Love Me Little, Love Me Long Anonymous

Love's Secret William Blake

May Sara Teasdale

My Pretty Rose Tree William Blake

No Tears Alexander Pushkin

One Day I Wrote Her Name Edmund Spenser

Proud of My Broken Heart Emily Dickinson

Reluctance Robert Frost

Remember Christina Georgina Rossetti

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways William Wordsworth

So We’ll Go No More a Roving George Gordon, Lord Byron

Song John Keats

Song: Sweetest love I do not go . . . John Donne

Sonnet 73 William Shakespeare

Still to be Neat Ben Jonson

Surprised by Joy—Impatient as the Wind William Wordsworth

The Banks of Bonnie Doon Robert Burns

The Going Thomas Hardy

The Hour-Glass BenJonson

The Kiss Sara Teasdale

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Francis William Bourdillon

To ———— Percy Bysshe Shelley

To an Absent Lover Helen Hunt Jackson

To Lose Thee Emily Dickinson

To One in Paradise Edgar Allen Poe

Upon the Death of Her Husband Elizabeth Singer Rowe

When I Was One-and-Twenty A. E. Housman

When the Lamp is Shattered Percy Bysshe Shelley

When We Two Parted George Gordon, Lord Byron

When You Are Old W. B. Yeats

Why is the Rose so Pale Heinrich Heine

You Left Me, Sweet, Two Legacies Emily Dickinson

Love of Friends


A Book of Verse Omar Khayyam

Love and Friendship Emily Brontë

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