17 Love Poems to say “I love you”
With so many classic love poems it is hard to find a poem that is short, exciting, and says “I love you”. By being an author of a poetry website I have the “privilege” of reading many love poems; thus, I have read my share of both exciting and boring works. My preference may not be the same as others, but then again everyone has unique taste buds.
Here is a list of the greatest classic love poems of all time; well, at least to me.
- Lines from a Notebook by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
- The Flea by John Donne
- Poet to His Love by Maxwell Bodenheim
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
- Did Not by Thomas Moore
- Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Last Sonnet by John Keats
- When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
- She walks in beauty, like the night by Lord Byron
- A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
- To Celia by Ben Jonson
- I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasedale
- To Amarantha, that she wold dishevel her Hair by Richard Lovelace
- Go, lovely Rose by Edmund Waller
- Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dave King
August 29, 2008 @ 8:45 am
Thereare a couple there that I do not know, and none I would disagree with, so I take that as as near as one can get to full concrrence. I must look those two up, though.
Vinny
August 30, 2008 @ 11:46 am
‘Love’s Philosophy’ is one of my very favorite love poems, as well as ‘She walks in beauty, like the night’. Another I might include would be Sonnet 17; oft-overlooked in favor of its successor, it is a very beautiful piece of work.
But, excellent list.