77+ Famous Love Poems Classic

All My Poems Are Love Poems.

Famous love poems classic. Spritz it with a little perfume like the middle schooler we all are inside and seal it with a kiss and youve got a Valentine theyll treasure for years to come. I love your lips when theyre wet with wine And red with a wild desire. I love your hair when the strands enmesh Your kisses against my face. Its obvious use of metaphor in the comparison of the subject of the poem to a summers day is hard to miss the subject being much superior to that grandest of seasons.

Of easy wind and downy flake. Why Do I Love You Sir Emily Dickinson So many great love poems are formed around hypothetical questions. When Two Poets Fall in Love Love poetry is about as old as love itself from Homers vision of Penelopes steadfastness to the biblical Song of Solomon to Shakespeares sonnets for his Dark Lady or some speculate Dark Lord to Keatss love songs for his own depression. Not for me the cold calm kiss.

I am not yours not lost in you Not lost although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon Lost as a snowflake in the sea 2. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Shakespeare s Sonnet 18 written in 1609 is one of the most famous and quoted love poems of all time. William Butler Yeatss exploration of enduring love makes this one of the most famous love poems to date. I dont love you as if you were a rose of salt topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire.

The woods are lovely dark and deep But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep. I love your lips when theyre wet with wineAnd red with a wild desireI love your eyes when the lovelight liesLit with a passionate fireI love your arms when the warm white. The late Henri along with his fellow Liverpool poets Roger McGough and Brian Patten brought poetry to a new generation in their 1967 anthology The Mersey Sound. The poem plays out almost like a stream of consciousness with the narrator trying to piece together how they feel.

And yet love knows it is a greater grief To bear loves wrong than hates known injury. I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Also its hard to ignore the sonnet continually popping up on this list as if its a poetic form made for love. I love your eyes when the lovelight lies Lit with a passionate fire.

Then if for my love thou my love receivest I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest. Its a poem about everyday love between everyday people but is strangely touching. But hey its the thought that counts. I love your arms when the warm white flesh Touches mine in a fond embrace.

I do forgive thy robbery gentle thief Although thou steal thee all my poverty. The couple in this poem is together for the long haul even as the rest of their lives and their bodies change. In this romantic poem Sara Teasdale wants to be so in love that she completely loses herself a romantic notion thats better in theory than in practice. One man loved the pilgrim soul in you And loved the sorrows of your changing face READ NOW.

When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face by Edna St. I love you as one loves certain obscure things secretly between the shadow and the soul. One aspect of Nerudas poems that I love is the leaps of logic he takes in eating the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body and becoming himself a puma. Dickinson may be more famed for her drab and depressing work but this is a fine love poem.