The 100 best love poems of all time

Vita nuova / Dante Alighieri --

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? / William Shakespeare --

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day / Howard Moss --

Who ever loved / Christopher Marlowe --

from Paradise lost (book IV) / John Milton --

To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe --

Red, red rose / Robert Burns --

She tells her love while half asleep / Robert Graves --

Last night you left me and slept / Rumi --

I prithee send me back my heart / Sir John Suckling --

I carry your heart with me / e. e. cummings --

Avenue / Frances Cornford --

Bargain / Sir Philip Sidney --

Mirabeau bridge / Guillaume Apollinaire --

To the bridge of love / Juan Ramon Jimenez --

She walks in beauty / Lord Byron --

Ragged wood / William Butler Yeats --

Night thoughts / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe --

Gardener / abindranath Tagore --

To the harbormaster / Frank O'Hara --

To a stranger / Walt Whitman --

True love / Judith Viorst --

Love 20 cents the first quarter mile / Kenneth Fearing --

Jenny kiss'd me / Leigh Hunt --

Juliet / Hilaire Belloc --

Song to Celia / Ben Jonson --

Your catfish friend / Richard Brautigan --

Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear --

Love song to Alex, 1979 / Margaret Walker --

When Sue wears red / Langston Hughes --

Those who love / Sara Teasdale --

Reprise / Ogden Nash --

One word is too often profaned / Percy Bysshe Shelley --

I do not love you / Pablo Neruda --

ifts / Juliana Horatia Ewing --

At last / Elizabeth Akers Allen --

To Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein --

Valentine / Donald Hall --

Love's secret / William Blake --

I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke --

ove for a hand / Karl Shapiro --

It is the third watch (anonymous) --

Enchantment / Thomas Otway --

Silken tent / Robert Frost --

Love song / William Carlos Williams --

Wild nights! / Emily Dickinson --

She comes not when noon is on the roses / Herbert Trench --

Between your sheets / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu --

Jewels / Charles Baudelaire --

Song 5 to Lesbia / Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) --

Vine / James Thomson --

from the Song of songs / anonymous (attributed to King Solomon) --

Confession / Frantisek Halas --

I loved you / Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin --

from Merciless beauty / Geoffrey Chaucer --

He is more than a hero / Sappho --

To his mistress / John Wilmot, earl of Rochester --

To little or no purpose / Sir George Etherege --

Touch / Octavio Paz --

ady love / Samuel Beckett --

Love poem / Gregory Orr --

I want to breathe / James Laughlin --

Statue of Eros / Zenodotos --

Come quickly / Izumi Shikibu --

Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare --

Habitation / Margaret Atwood --

September / Ted Hughes --

Love letter / Sylvia Plath --

Marriage morning / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --

To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet --

Fulfillment / William Cavendish --

How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --

Meeting at night / Robert Browning --

Sonnet XXX / Edna St. Vincent Millay --

Camomile tea / Katherine Mansfield --

Decade / Amy Lowell --

Wear me / Robert Kogan --

Marriage / Yvor Winters --

Married love / Tao-Sheng --

River merchant's wife / Li Po --

To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell --

Nothing twice / Wislawa Szymborska --

Strawberries / Edwin Morgan --

True love / Robert Penn Warren --

When I was one-and-twenty / A. E. Housman --

Thunderstorm in town / Thomas Hardy --

On the balcony / D. H. Lawrence --

Love song / Rainer Maria Rilke --

Moonlit night / Tu Fu --

Sonnet of sweet complaint / Federico Garcia Lorca --

Since there's no help / Michael Drayton --

Love arm'd / Aphra Behn --

Lost love / William Wordsworth --

Echo / Christina Rossetti --

Reminiscence / Anne Bronte --

For Jane / Charles Bukowski --

Funeral blues / W. H. Auden --

Vino Tinto / Sandra Cisneros --

One art / Elizabeth Bishop --

To Fanny Brawne / John Keats --

Valediction forbidding mourning / John Donne.