Love Poems : The Poetry Foundation

Love poems written by famous poets. Browse through to read poems for love. This page has the widest range of love love and quotes. Love poems for her, love ...


Love Poems : The Poetry Foundation

CLASSIC LOVE

Bird Understander

Craig Arnold

To My Dear and Loving Husband

Anne Bradstreet

The Sun Rising

John Donne

Sonnet 40

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 65

William Shakespeare

Song: To Celia

Ben Jonson

TEEN LOVE

Poem for My Love

June Jordan

A Glimpse

Walt Whitman

Valentine

Tom Pickard

I Love You

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Recitative

A.E. Stallings

FUNNY LOVE

Love Explained

Jennifer Michael Hecht

Windchime

Tony Hoagland

The Quiet World

Jeffrey McDaniel

Video Blues

Mary Jo Salter

Bar Napkin Sonnet #11

Moira Egan

FRIENDSHIP

Inviting a Friend to Supper

Ben Jonson

Tenderness and Rot

Kay Ryan

Sonnet: I Thank You

Henry Timrod

Blue Ridge

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Luciferin

Dean Young

Love and Friendship

Emily Jane Brontë

ROMANTIC LOVE

I Loved You First

Christina Rossetti

You, Therefore

Reginald Shepherd

Poem to an Unnameable Man

Dorothea Lasky

Lines Depicting Simple Happiness

Peter Gizzi

Flirtation

Rita Dove

[love is more thicker than forget]

E. E. Cummings

BREAK UP

Poem

Jill Alexander Essbaum

They Flee From Me

Thomas Wyatt

The Nails

W.S. Merwin

I'll Open the Window

Anna Swir

A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will

Isabella Whitney

Neutral Tones

Thomas Hardy

SAD LOVE

Yours & Mine

Alice Fulton

Somewhere or Other

Christina Rossetti

Venice, Unaccompanied

Monica Youn

Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away

John Fletcher

A Broken Appointment

Thomas Hardy

EROTIC

First Poem for You

Kim Addonizio

"Lying in bed I think about you ..."

Joshua Beckman

Aubade

Amber Flora Thomas

Project for a Fainting

Brenda Shaughnessy

The Imperfect Enjoyment

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Upon Julia’s Breasts

Robert Herrick

FEATURED ARTICLES

How to Write Love Poems

By Jeremy Richards

Poems to Send the Person You're Crushing On

By Becca Klaver

Queer Love Poems for Valentine's Day

By Brian Reed

Contemporary Poets Pick Their Favorite Love Poems

By the Editors

Love Poems from Poetry Magazine

By the Editors

 FEATURED AUDIO

Heat

By Jane Hirshfield

Permanent Press

By Alice Friman

Rhapsody

By David St. John

Romantic Moment

By Tony Hoagland

Stolen Moments

By Kim Addonizio

This

By Ralph Angel

I MISS YOU

The Day is Gone

John Keats

Valentine

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Dear One Absent This Long While

Lisa Olstein

Country Love Song

Melanie Almeder

Then

Roddy Lumsden

IN LOVING MEMORY

We Never Know

Yusef Komunyakaa

Love Letter (Clouds)

Sarah Manguso

Methought I saw my late espousèd saint

John Milton

You Were You Are Elegy

Mary Jo Bang

Buried at Springs

James Schuyler

An Elegy

Ben Jonson