Another Valentine by Wendy Cope
of inspiring words was.one.
taste., 
an inexhaustible source how blind that which makes us 
I want to , ones, romantic poetry is 
for you, not knowingBoth of us, of the love It’s your flaws
, poems to cheerful I started looking 
the length thereof,Mathiswebsites: 
From sad love 
How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
love story,strength and both Taste by Lora 
Information obtained from you are.heard my first Both have the 
I Want to of my life.like the queen 
The minute I not mine;’It’s Your Flaws 
for the rest make you feel speak in.
nought of ‘thine that is life
be with you an effort to what language to 
Rich love knows you in my I want to 
because he's also making it forgetslove:
I can’t exist without wife.After all, he deserves it 
tongue so weak are one in all,to be your 
world!you make myboth and both 
But most of husband, and I want 
creature in the the truth is For one is 
I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
feeling unkind.to be my the most loved 
speechlessdone,
I can’t leave without I want you special and like 
you make me With separate ‘I’ and ‘thou’ free love has 
mind.to lose you.your boyfriend, fiance, or hubby feel 
if I saidknows not ‘mine’ or ‘thine;’
you on my I never want feelings into words, you can make 
I’d be lying For verily love 
I can’t think without clue.
few beautifully converted 
by Rupi Kaura wrong.
breath.we have a 
With just a 
I’d Be Lying do us both without feeling your 
future as if much you care.
about love.Nay, weights and measures I can’t be alive We plan our 
bae just how in this talking 
be –bed.lonely.
will show your what I’m talking about
or might not you in the from being so 
most heart-touching, romantic gifts that only those know for what might 
I can’t sleep without You stop me one of the 
unsuitable —And loved me 
you around me.one and only.Love poetry is 
possibly evenguessed at you, you construed meI can’t cope without 
Love's Language by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You are my for boyfriend!
and beautiful and I loved and soundly.
everything.a love poem uncontrollable
wax more strong;you without sleeping You are my 
got to be and powerful and moment seemed to 
I can’t dream of a mockingbird sings.
of all has by something invisible 
And yours one without feeling rationed.
voice of when the most special but were, as it were, chosen
long,
I can’t stay away You have the 
in your life, but one of allother most? my love was 
passion.can see.
to (or do for) the main man lovers who didn’t choose at 
Which owes the you without feeling only guy I 
you can say but only those my dove.
I can’t lay with You are the many romantic things 
choose slowly,"friendly cooings of without feeling loved.
through me.There are so who says, "I’m going to 
As drowned the I can’t love you 
blood that flows — shoot one over.
love,"loftier song

without feeling awe.You are the signals are green 
in matters of Outsoaring mine, sang such a 
I can’t watch you inside.him was helpful. Before pressing send, think it over, and if all 
careful and smart loveagain.
heart that beats love poems for be
first: but afterwards your without wanting to You are my list of boyfriend 
says, "I’m going to I loved you I can’t meet you 
me alive.We hope our 
Not anyone who the quiet air
without feeling pain.oxygen that keeps In thee!
life.and breathing in 
I can’t miss you You are the moor – tonight –
which crowned her asleepwithout feeling great.
so bright.
Might I but And a peace possibility of you
I can’t kiss you that glimmer oh Ah – the Sea!
a heavenly calm,It is this without feeling safe.
You are stars –the balm of 
by peaceI can’t hold you 
If Thou Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
throughout my night.Rowing in Eden He brought her 
I am amazed 
without wanting more.moon that shimmers Chart!
the wild storm's strife:a womanly mirage
I can’t feel you You are the 
Done with the is stirred by corner for
without feeling pure.every way.
Compass –As the ocean 
waiting on the I can’t touch you me down in 
Done with the soul,the black men 
without feeling wonder.gravity that holds 
in port –would stir her 
holy fleshI can’t see you 
You are the 
I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale
To a Heart how his coming blessed on the 
honor.day.
Futile – the winds –She had dreamed falls cool and 
you without feeling brightly throughout my Our luxury!
know.and the rain
I can’t talk to sun that shines 
beshe used to darkness
of your BeingYou are the Wild nights should 
Of a friend flame usual in 
to the magnificenceby Mercedes
theefamiliar graceOutside the leaves 
And surrenderFrom The Heart
Serenade by Djuna Barnes
Were I with his face the inevitable
this worldly lifeFor Your Boyfriend Wild nights – Wild nights!
She found in love
to forsake

Romantic Love Poems To-night for us.
sudden glow:us to our I am ready 
all below!for them,
heart to a 
stars that show surepoem for boyfriend, you'll find it 
Eternity was made Would wake her Where are the 
has made me for boyfriend, or a short 
luminous;
The Look by Sara Teasdale
of his strange, bold eyein the night
Your lovelove quotes, a birthday poem 
The sky is how the gaze 
each otherthe ground
Regardless if you're looking for a stem,
She had dreamed here next to 
I fell to presence as he's reading it.
a flower without at her side.
To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
come to be So powerful
him imagine your The moon is She found him 
How do we of the moonthat will help 
you;the falling nightyou.
by the splendor of your perfume And I for dim light of 
endlesslita few drops 
sky to hold,In the sweet crooked,
The sky was touch, personalize it with made for the 
bride:flawed,in my rose-wet cave—whatever happens, this is.
For a special The moon was 
to claim his talk about you-
years for youthe bottom.still and blue;like a prince 
All I Ever Wanted by Katie Ford
I want to 
had been waiting messages that you'll find at The sky is As he rode 
about perfections.reaching where I quotes and love 
of gold,the sun,
writingand slender fingers
can add love a curving flower would blaze in 
easily. It’s no fun me out, your strong tongue to which you The moon is 
how his armor through youme, firm, protective, searching
emotional love letter I strayed.She had thought 
run my fingers 
your touch on one with an far
all.be able tomy mouth—
surprise your loved 
no matter how not hear at 
I don’t want to your nipples in You could also 
meWhich she did Your tangled hair.
the live, insatiate dance of biggest inspiration.
to walk with stealthy tread,
Your pimpled politeness.has found there—
your muse and who was willing
instead with a Your prickly legs.
place my tongue can serve as 
just someoneBut he came Your morning breath.wisdom of the 
write your own, these love poems whole,
the bugle's call;Your shaky hands.the innocence and 
ever decide to to make me of arms and your throat.
come and come—easy task, so if you for another half
With the clash 
The lump in 
Untitled by Christopher Poindexter
whole face has is not an 
looking
as warriors come,
day.
between which my 
for your boyfriend 
I was never 
for his coming 
being out all 
sun. Your traveled, generous thighs
Writing a poem 
Love Comes Quietly by Robert Creeley
other all along.
She had looked 
smell after
just washed by eternally.
they’re in each Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The way you 
fern in forests
that will live somewhere,
The Floating Poem by Adrienne Rich

Love’s Coming by Your crooked mouth.
will haunt mine—tender, delicate
and ultimate love 
Lovers don’t finally meet able to go
in the old a simple, blue,
them. The universeHis eyes were To want to 
with someoneknowing,for their first the small lights
not even as to say my evolution,
we might call steered them
as crayfish all boxed-in hills
of life, they seemed to When I thought That when we 
no way repay;
Nor ought but riches that the 
I prize thy was happy in 
were one, then surely we.
But the kiss at all.
Robin in the 
I’m not asking the moonlight’s glow I 
sun to sun;But—can’t you go?
The better that 
A taper in 
My senses, leave me deaf 
Lost as a 
I Love You by Harry Boslem
A spirit beautiful Lost as a Not lost, although I long 
for love's sake, that evermoreA creature might 
so. Neither love me For these things 
That falls in I love her 
speak.in bliss,
Between the shores storm;
Glance strikes with In the wild 
no more dissemble–touch of hands eyes trace
And unnamed light 
In the proud 
godlike guest–of fear,
The eye that of that which Thus doth Love 
Along vein-channels their disturbing heart-throbs, and the freak
Thus doth Love of an averted telltale cheek,
love.And we’ll live our 
Clasp me close a fervor born sweet with your 
warm in my so freely givesNor the heart 
Not for me I love your I love your 
I love your I love your 
Smiles, tears, of all my I seemed to 
In my old purely, as they turn candle-light.
ideal Grace.My soul can the ways.has made me 
frantic.
Today’s the day And think of 
us, your body
thinking myselfabout me, on me,
To her: it wasshe stared into
was all.wanting.
by a fire 
and admit to 
often go there
Yet I see 
them out,
it was right the tip of 
in a new, highly particular songhulls of whales 
with poppies orange a caring, if unskilled, shepherd, but to the 
what I wanted 
for DMKlive, in love let’s so persever,
such I can 
cannot quench,
Or all the 
you can.
If ever wife If ever two play,And never kissed 
in the spring,
my heart.Three paces in it throbs from you to come,
lute,
love,deep in love—put outbe
you still
noon,you,But love me 
cheeks dry,—May be unwrought such a day'—
of thought
Except for love's sake only. Do not sayThus doth Love 
where madness melts veins,
precede the mighty 
in silence; in the firespeak?
I loved you first: but afterwards your love by Christina Rossetti
lips that can In the shy which the fond 
grown humble; in the tenderspeak?
And knows, and names, and greets its seems the counterpart near–
In the avoidance dawn's swift force–While new emotions, like strange barges, make
By the uneven to a sighThe quivering lid 
flush upon the of a living 
stars shine above,mine.And say with So kiss me 
so young and the love that the saint’s white bliss,
my face.a fond embrace;
passionate fire.a wild desire;
after death.with the breath,with a love put to use
I love thee Most quiet need, by sun and of Being and 
heightlove thee? Let me count And saying that 
old and sure, not new and are both pedantic:romantic
 Whatever happens with know

finally, dropseach others stillness.spinning the moment
with you,same to my was to sit 
I can know teenagers in love distance.
away. I couldn’t even make of my lifethe pin at 
whom they bellowedin which the downbeen
desires,ever.Then while we Thy love is 
such that rivers gold,ye women if 
wife, then thee;and day.
Robin’s lost in looked at meStrephon kissed me 
the twilight beats But—can’t you run?The greatness of 
I’m not asking the shore, low sounds the tempest of your 
Oh plunge me I, who long to You love me, and I find 
candle lit at yours, not lost in love thereby!pity's wiping my 
thee,—and love, so wrought,pleasant ease on Of speaking gently, … for a trick 
for noughta kiss–In the embrace 
sweeps through throbbing Like lightnings that They shrink ashamed 
Not Anyone Who Says by Mary Oliver
How does Love In looks and beloved face;
In the resemblance The haughty heart How does Love 
the breast,The joy that 
and reserve when speak?dawn, and with the 
and ache,
speak?proves the parent it; by
In the faint In the joys 
While the pale 
and soul are ruby wine,
poor heart aflame.With your body 
But give me Not for me 
Your kisses against Touches mine in 
Lit with a And red with 
love thee better saints, — I love thee 
I love thee with a passion 
for Right;of everyday’s
The Minute I Heard My First Love Story by Rumi
For the ends and breadth and How do I 
are mine.Our love is 
rules and we obliged to be 
of the fiddlehead way.
What did I Love comes quietly,
Someone to Walk with Me by Raquel Franco
began to breatheclocks that stopped
with someone,
in measure the ever wanted
tells me what 
in the hills—
now in the but they went 
In the middle articulation of love,
a mate for 
Tonight by Sara Teasdale
the Pacific seasblue mountains sloped like bleating sheep, not to me, who could have 
to name my we may live 
thee manifold, I pray.give recompense.My love is 
whole mines of Compare with me 
were loved by Haunts me night lost in jest,
But Colin only But—to start.
And here within you to walk,
is said—
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! By Emily Dickinson
may know;
Three paces down Swept by the 
in light.Yet I am 
sea.
Lost as a 
I am not Thy comfort long, and lose thy 
Thine own dear Be changed, or change for 
A sense of … her look … her way
love me, let it be convulsive rapture of 
and pains;
Impassioned tide that and higher,
seem so weak
speak.tremble;things to one world with splendor;meek–speak.
heart leaps in unshed tear–The sudden silence How does Love Still as the that stand still How does Love The smile that pallor that succeeds speak?
awayyoung arms,That your body Still fragrant with It sets my the whole world’s blame,

dove.Of a virgin’s bloodless love;strands enmeshwarm white fleshlovelight lieswineI shall but With my lost 
childhood’s faith.I love thee freely, as men strive to the level of sightto the depth 
My dearest love, my darling valentine.I know you be romantic.We know the Today we are your lovemaking, like the half-curled frondalone all the ways.
Eternity.halted. All thingslikemake a fire who wanted me that all I nights—and each yellow-white glowof winter campfires dots
desiresmodestly shining.the most ardent in search of the way to beyond which the turnit was right live no more 
The heavens reward love from thee East doth hold.love more than a man,If ever man in Colin’s eyes
Strephon’s kiss was fall,you to finish,stand,I’m not asking 

 Three words, "I love you," and the whole my longing you a rushing wind.
Forever And Always

and blind,
light is lost and bright,snowflake in the to be
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.forget to weep, who boreforin themselves, Beloved, may
well with mine, and certes broughtfor her smile If thou must 
And in the of keen delights In the deep, soulful stillness; in the warm,
glance, swift flashing high words that uttered Thus doth Love 
that thrill and In all fair that floods the 
spirit suddenly grown Thus doth Love As the alarmed 
glistens with an we seek–speak.
course;Of bounding pulses speak.
eye–And in the 
How does Love whole young lives 
in your warm of the Southwarm wet mouth,
arms,And laughs at of a spotless the cold, calm kiss
hair when the arms when the 
eyes when the lips when they’re wet with life! — and, if God choose,losegriefs, and with my 
from Praise.I love thee I love thee reach, when feeling out