15 Love Poems for Her
1. “My Love for You” by Pablo Neruda
My love for you is like a river that flows,
Intense and deep, constantly growing and expanding.
It’s a force that cannot be stopped or controlled,
And it will continue, forever unending.
2. “I Carry Your Heart With Me” by E.E. Cummings
I carry your heart with me, my darling girl,
And it is always with me wherever I go.
Your love is a light that shines bright in my world,
And it fills me with warmth from head to toe.
3. “Sonnet XVII” by Pablo Neruda
I love you without knowing how, when, or from where,
I love you without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this.
4. “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
I loved her, not for the way she danced with my angels,
But for the way, the sound of her name could silence my demons.
5. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons,
But with you by my side, my life is a symphony of love and passion.
6. “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
7. “Wild Nights” by Emily Dickinson
Wild nights – Wild nights!
Was I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
8. “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes
9. “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.
10 “When You Are Old” by W.B. Yeats
When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
11. “Love is Not All” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
12. “I Have Loved Hours at Sea” by Sara Teasdale
I have loved hours at sea, gray cities,
The fragile secret of a flower,
Music, the making of a poem
That gave me heaven for an hour;
13. “The Sun Rising” by John Donne
Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows and through curtains call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run?
14. “She Walks in Beauty” by George Gordon Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
15. “Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
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15 Love Poems for Him
1. “I Carry Your Heart With Me” by E.E. Cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;
and whatever is done by only me is your doing,
my darling)
2. “When You Are Old” by W.B. Yeats
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
3. “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height. My soul can reach
when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace.
4. “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
5. “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove: O no!
It is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
6.“The Sun Rising” by John Donne
She’s all states, and all princes, I;
Nothing else is;
Princes do but play us;
compared to this,
All honors mimic all wealth alchemy.
7.”How I Love You” by John Frederick Nims
I love you not as something private and personal,
but as something universal, timeless,
and all-embracing.
8.”Love is a Sickness” by Samuel Daniel
Love is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing;
A plant that with most cutting grows,
Most barren with best using.
9. “I Love You” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I love your lips when they’re wet with wine And red with a wild desire;
I love your eyes when the lovelight lies Lit with a passionate fire.
10. “Bright Star” by John Keats
Bright star,
would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendor hung the night aloft And watching,
with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
11. “Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
12. “Love’s Language” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Talk happiness.
The world is sad enough Without your woes.
No path is wholly rough;
13. “Love Is Not All” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not all:
it is not meat or drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
14.”Valentine” by Carol Ann Duffy
Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light like the careful undressing of love.
15. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills, fields, Woods, or steep mountain yields.
