It has been a long time since I added any new poems to the personal love poems section (the one written by me). I finally decided to after writing a couple love poems over the weekend. I know I’m not that great of a poet, but I hope that serves as inspiration for young writers [...]
Love poems are one of the most searched for poetry themes on PoemofQuotes. Although the results are skewed due to Google searches and placement, these are the top 10 most viewed love poems written by me, long ago and read on PofQ. Wanting You Our Moment Feeling Everlasting Love One Kiss Without You The Day [...]
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 [...]
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, [...]
Go, lovely Rose– Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that ‘s young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended [...]
Amarantha sweet and fair, Ah, braid no more that shining hair! As my curious hand or eye Hovering round thee, let it fly! Let it fly as unconfined As its calm ravisher the wind, Who hath left his darling, th’ East, To wanton o’er that spicy nest. Every tress must be confest, But neatly tangled [...]
I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, altho’ I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snow-flake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is [...]
Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and [...]
‘Twas a new feeling – something more Than we had dared to own before, Which then we hid not; We saw it in each other’s eye, And wished, in every half-breathed sigh, To speak, but did not. She felt my lips’ impassioned touch – ‘Twas the first time I dared so much, And yet she [...]
An old silver church in a forest Is my love for you. The trees around it Are words that I have stolen from your heart. An old silver bell, the last smile you gave, Hangs at the top of my church. It rings only when you come through the forest And stand beside it. And [...]
