I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played alongside millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.
My Love
There are times when behind your smile there is sorrow, behind you laughter there are tears.
I just want you to know that behind you there will always be me.
I will cherish you for the rest of my life because you offered me what I can’t buy: "LOVE", and when you feel alone just look at the spaces of you fingers.
Remember that in those spaces, you can see my fingers locked with yours "FOREVER"
True Love and Devotion
They say, "The Older the violin, the sweeter the music". Well, I see that in you. I see that in our love.
My love for you gets sweeter and sweeter each day and so are we.
Throughout the years we’ve been together, it amazes me to find more reasons to love and cherish you. I tried to make a list but I’m out of words.
My heart is full of joy and all I know is… "I am not whole without you".
For as long as I live, I cannot think of the best gift but "My True Love and Devotion" to you.
I love you now and always.
There Is No One Like You
There’s no one who can take your place.
The way you smile, the way you look, the way you always know what I am thinking about, the way you gave me hug when all was needed, the way you cry, laugh, listen and love.
You share your hopes and dreams and help me shared mine; you touch my life and there will never be another you.
You have touched me more profoundly than I ever thought you could touch me.
I love you.
Each Day Love Letter
I needed you and I found you embracing me, I laughed with you and a rainbow appeared, I shared with you and I felt no fear, I believed in you and saw my trust rewarded, I dreamed with you and my dreams came true.
Each day I find more happiness in you. Our Love grows sweeter and stronger each day.
I know we have the kind of love that is really unique and I know that the most important part in my life is YOU.
Forever Love
Words are not enough to express how special you are to me and if I have to tell you a hundred times of how much "I love You", I will never go weary.
How can I let go of someone who brought so much joy in my life?
Never… Never will I let go.
I will love you always and forever.
Forever … I will stay by your side.
Forever … I’ll be your companion.
Forever … I will do anything for you.
Forever … I’ll go with you.
Forever … I’ll bring you the sunshine.
Forever … I’ll comfort your tears.
Forever … I’ll gather up rainbows to chase away all your fears.
Forever … my love will be true.
Forever … I will love only YOU.
Promise Of Love
Lets promise to take good care of our love. Lets nurture it, honour it and strengthen it.
Lets teach our love to know more about us and always keep it just misty-eyed gentle, laughing and sweet as it is right now.
I promise that I’ll run to you when you are far from me, I’ll hug you tight when you’re sad, I’ll stay by your side when you’re feeling lonely, I’ll wipe your tears when they start to flow.
I will Love you for all Eternity.
You And Me
It’s you and me, my sweetheart, just You and Me …
I love what we made together and I want you to know that no words can describe how deeply you touch my heart.
I tried so hard to put my thoughts on a paper, but words escape every time I try.
I only know that I Love you truly … I Love you deeply, more and more each day. I don’t know what I would do without you.
You and Me, only you and me until our last days.
I Love You
I love you for being my sweetheart, I love you for being my partner and my friend.
I love you for the caring and joy that you share without end.
I love you for the warm tender touch and the things you do for me.
I love you for the way you help all my dreams come true and for filling my world with your love.
I love you for all you are and what you are.
I love you Today, Tomorrow, Forever …
I’ll never stop loving you.
Thank You, My Love
My dear, you know that I tell you all the time that "I Love You" and how glad I am we found each other.
I talk about how much you mean to me and how wonderful my life is because of you, but I don’t recall saying " Thank You".
Thank you for liking me as I am.
Thank you for loving me and letting me know about it.
Thank You for sharing you with me in your special way.
Just know that in my heart, I thank you all the time, for a lot of things. Most of all for being you.
Thank you, my love!
My Dearest Love
My Dearest Love,
Love opened my eyes … I never knew what really love is until I knew your love and so everything else became clear.
You have touched my heart in a very special way and you make me look to tomorrows expectantly, excited about the good things to come.
I prayed and longed for LOVE that grows like flowers in the fields, for LOVE to feel as time goes on, for LOVE I’ll care till the end, for Love I’ll cherish and keep forever.
You’re the one I have been waiting for, you’re that someone special I’ve been longing for.
Now I know, my life will always be a beautiful thing that bloomed out of your love for me.
I Love You, My Darling.
You Came To Me
In the middle of my loneliness and longing, in the middle of being so alone in a place where no one seemed to care, you came to me. You found me there. You lifted me up and you give me hope.
My sweetheart, you give me the kind of love that I have never received from anyone before.
Now I am wrapped around your loving arms and I feel so secure with you. You always told me to never let go and never give up on love because "everything in this world begins because of love". I want to thank you for that.
I would be lost without you. I so much appreciate the way you bestow your love and care to me. I know deep within my heart, you are here to stay. We will stay happy together and grow much deeper in love together, trusting each other.
I love you.
I Will Wait For You
It was not hard for me to fall in love with you. You are so easy to love.
The hardest part is being away from you, but I know that the best part is when we will be together again.
I’m longing for that moment. God knows how much I miss you.
We may be apart, but my love for you stays stronger and sweeter.
When I feel alone, I close my eyes and I can feel your arms wrap around me, your tender kisses and sweet whispers of "I love you".
My Love, all I ever need is you and all I want is to hold you forever. To laugh with you, to share each moment with you but for now I will wait for that sweet moment.
When it comes, I will hold your hands forever.
Think About the Tone
Some wedding poems are traditional and formal in nature, while others are much more modern and unusual. Look for a poem that matches the tone of the event and the moment when youre actually sharing the poem. Consider whether you want a traditional sonnet as part of the wedding ceremony or a few quirky lines for a toast to the happy couple on their special day.
Practice Saying It Aloud
To avoid stumbling over your words on the big day, choose a poem that you feel confident saying out loud. Reciting the poem aloud is also a good way to see if itll fit within the moment вЂ" you might find its too long and complicated for your vows, or its too short for your wedding ceremony reading. You might also discover that a traditional poem doesnt suit you and opt for something more contemporary or casual instead.
Personalize It
9 Traditionally Romantic Wedding Poems
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We love these traditional wedding poems that are truly timeless. These classics are favorites among couples and speech givers alike for their romance, depth, and familiarity. These traditional poems work great for a more formal ceremony or toast, and would also look wonderful printed and displayed at the reception venue as decor.
I Carry Your Heart 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)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and its you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder thats keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
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.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
This Marriage by Rumi
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
May it be sweet milk,
this marriage, like wine and halvah.
May this marriage offer fruit and shade
like the date palm.
May this marriage be full of laughter,
our every day a day in paradise.
May this marriage be a sign of compassion,
a seal of happiness here and hereafter.
May this marriage have a fair face and a good name,
an omen as welcomes the moon in a clear blue sky.
I am out of words to describe
how spirit mingles in this marriage.
Touched by An Angel by Maya Angelou
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
Love Is A Place by E. E. Cummings
love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. 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;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
To Be One With Each Other by George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls
than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen
each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow,
to share with each other in all gladness,
to be one with each other in the
silent unspoken memories?
To Love Is Not to Possess by James Kavanaugh
To love is not to possess,
To own or imprison,
Nor to lose one's self in another.
Love is to join and separate,
To walk alone and together,
To find a laughing freedom
That lonely isolation does not permit.
It is finally to be able
To be who we really are
No longer clinging in childish dependency
Nor docilely living separate lives in silence,
It is to be perfectly one's self
And perfectly joined in permanent commitment
To another–and to one's inner self.
Love only endures when it moves like waves,
Receding and returning gently or passionately,
Or moving lovingly like the tide
In the moon's own predictable harmony,
Because finally, despite a child's scars
Or an adult's deepest wounds,
They are openly free to be
Who they really are–and always secretly were,
In the very core of their being
Where true and lasting love can alone abide.
10 Beautifully Unusual Wedding Poems
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Excerpt from First Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd
when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks.
I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows
with only this one dream: You come too.
Roads Go Ever Ever On by J. R. R. Tolkien
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
Excerpt from Captain Corellis Mandolin by Louis de BerniГЁres
Love is a temporary madness.
It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides.
And when it subsides, you have to make a decision.
You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together
that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.
Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness,
It is not excitement,
It is not the promulgation of eternal passion.
That is just being "in love" which any fool can do.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away,
And this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground,
And when all the pretty blossom have fallen from their branches,
They find that they are one tree and not two.
Chemistry by Nayyirah Waheed
chemistry
is
you
touching my arm
and
it
setting fire to my mind.
You Came, Too by Nikki Giovanni
I came to the crowd seeking friends
I came to the crowd seeking love
I came to the crowd for understanding
I found you
I came to the crowd to weep
I came to the crowd to laugh
You dried my tears
You shared my happiness
I went from the crowd seeking you
I went from the crowd seeking me
I went from the crowd forever
You came, too
Dress by Tyler Knott Gregson
I would rather be
the loneliest dress
of all the dresses
hanging in the back
of your closet,
than the most loved
most worn
and most gorgeous dress
in the front
of anyone
elses.
Untitled by R. M. Drake
You will be the clouds
And I will be the sky.
You will be the ocean
And I will be the shore.
You will be the trees
And I will be the wind.
Whatever we are, you and I
Will always collide.
god must have kneaded you and i
from the same dough
rolled us out as one on the baking sheet
must have suddenly realized
how unfair it was
to put that much magic in one person
and sadly split that dough in two
how else is it that
when i look in the mirror
i am looking at you
when you breathe
my own lungs fill with air
that we just met but we
have known each other our whole lives
if we were not made as one to begin with
The Day Sky by Hafiz
Let us be like
two falling stars in the day sky.
Let no one know of our sublime beauty
as we hold hands with God
and burn
Into a sacred existence that defies вЂ"
that surpasses
and love.
Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke
Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishes–do you recall? And we
did make so many!
For there were countless numbers
of stars: each time we looked above we were
astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall.
5 Fun and Funny Wedding Poems
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Want to make your loved ones laugh instead of cry? Here are some of our favorite funny wedding poems that are sure to get people smiling. (Theres even a "poem" from a hilarious romantic comedy.)
To My Valentine by Ogden Nash
More than a catbird hates a cat,
Or a criminal hates a clue,
Or the Axis hates the United States,
Thats how much I love you.
I love you more than a duck can swim,
And more than a grapefruit squirts,
I love you more than a gin rummy is a bore,
And more than a toothache hurts.
As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea,
Or a juggler hates a shove,
As a hostess detests unexpected guests,
Thats how much you I love.
I love you more than a wasp can sting,
And more than the subway jerks,
I love you as much as a beggar needs a crutch,
And more than a hangnail irks.
I swear to you by the stars above,
And below, if such there be,
As the High Court loathes perjurious oaths,
Thats how youre loved by me.
Ill Be There For You by Louise Cuddon
Ill be there my darling, through thick and through thin
When your minds in a mess and your heads in a spin
When your planes been delayed, and youve missed the last train
When life is just threatening to drive you insane
When your thrilling whodunit has lost its last page
When somebody tells you, youre looking your age
When your coffees too cool, and your wine is too warm
When the forecast said "Fine", but youre out in a storm
When your quick break hotel, turns into a slum
And your holiday photos show only your thumb
When you park for five minutes in a residents bay
And return to discover youve been towed away
When the jeans that you bought in hope or in haste
Just stick on your hips and dont reach round your waist
When the food you most like brings you out in red rashes
When as soon as you boot up the bloody thing crashes
So my darling, my sweetheart, my dear…
When you break a rule, when you act the fool
When youve got the flu, when youre in a stew
When youre last in the queue, dont feel blue
cause Im telling you, Ill be there.
Grow Old With You from The Wedding Singer
I wanna make you smile whenever youre sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I wanna do is grow old with you
Ill get your medicine when your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh, it could be so nice, growing old with you
Ill miss you
Kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold
Need you
Feed you
Even let you hold the remote control
So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink
Put you to bed when youve had too much to drink
Oh, I could be the man who grows old with you
I wanna grow old with you.
I Rely On You by Hovis Presley
I rely on you
like a camera needs a shutter
like a gambler needs a flutter
like a golfer needs a putter
like a buttered scone involves some butter
I rely on you
like an acrobat needs ice cool nerve
like a hairpin needs a drastic curve
like an HGV needs endless derv
like an outside left needs a body swerve
I rely on you
like a handyman needs pliers
like an auctioneer needs buyers
like a laundromat needs driers
like The Good Life needed Richard Briers
I rely on you.
Yes, Ill Marry You by Pam Ayres
Yes, I'll marry you, my dear,
And here's the reason why;
So I can push you out of bed
When the baby starts to cry,
And if we hear a knocking
And it's creepy and it's late,
I hand you the torch you see,
And you investigate.
Yes I'll marry you, my dear,
You may not apprehend it,
But when the tumble-drier goes
It's you that has to mend it,
You have to face the neighbour
Should our labrador attack him,
And if a drunkard fondles me
It's you that has to whack him.
Yes, I'll marry you,
You're virile and you're lean,
My house is like a pigsty
You can help to keep it clean.
That sexy little dinner
Which you served by candlelight,
As I do chipolatas,
You can cook it every night!
It's you who has to work the drill
and put up curtain track,
And when I've got PMT it's you who gets the flak,
I do see great advantages,
But none of them for you,
And so before you see the light,
I do, I do, I do!
Create an Unforgettable Moment With These Wedding Poems
Capture the power of words and use these wedding poems to bring your vows, speech, or toast to life. Find a poem that suits the ceremony or receptions atmosphere, formality, and audience. You can customize your reading with anecdotes of the couples moments together, or use these wedding poems to make your ceremony vows feel perfectly you. For more ways to personalize this momentous event, combine your wedding poems with other lovely wedding words and youll have a celebration you and your guests will always remember.