The Best Love Poems of All Time

[mukta581]

Why I fall in love with you!

Since I met you,
I've fallen in love with you,
at least a hundred times
for a hundred different reasons.

Sometimes I fall in love with you
when I watch you doing something you enjoy,
something you are so involved in,
that you are unaware of my presence.

Sometimes I fall in love with you
when I listen to you talk to other people.
Whether you are being interesting and funny
or warm and caring,
and genuinely concerned,
you have a way of making people feel better
with nothing more than words.

Sometimes I fall in love with you
just thinking about you,
remembering all the memories we've made.

Falling in love for the first time,
staying in love during the rough times,
finding more to love about you every day.
And whenever I think about
the wonderful things that lie ahead of us,
I fall so totally and completely,
In love with you,
All over again.

You need to understand,
with you my love has no beginning,
and most certainly no end,
My love for you,
I most certainly know,
Only knows,
FOREVER!

[Nicki]

My Dearest...
Not your words, not mine,
but our hearts and souls entwined.
No time or distance will prevail,
in the story these two will tell.
Exact thoughts. different words,
singing in our hearts to be heard.
The deepest pain they do share,
and tired souls to each they bare.
Only dreams were left to grasp,
a thought of a forever love at last.
For there is nothing greater to be,
than a lover who is just like thee.
Now my heart is lifted of the weight,
for I have found my true SoulMate!
love...

by CSL

[mukta581]

Love!!!!

You make me feel real
you make me feel alive
inside its your love i secretly thrive

the things you say
the things you do
no one Ive met can compare to you

your my soul mate so special
your my everything your the one
you my match me we stick like glue
when were apart i feel so blue

i hate the fact i cant be with you
believe me when i say this i really really do
id give anything in this world just to be laying next to you

my heart and soul to you i owe
i hate the way life's planned out its evil taunting flow
the things i think and feel for you no one can ever no

id love to leave and spread my wings fly away like a dove
id leave with you and never look back my special secret love

[dramasnot6]

Why I fall in love with you!

Since I met you,
I've fallen in love with you,
at least a hundred times
for a hundred different reasons.

Sometimes I fall in love with you
when I watch you doing something you enjoy,
something you are so involved in,
that you are unaware of my presence.

Sometimes I fall in love with you
when I listen to you talk to other people.
Whether you are being interesting and funny
or warm and caring,
and genuinely concerned,
you have a way of making people feel better
with nothing more than words.

Sometimes I fall in love with you
just thinking about you,
remembering all the memories we've made.

Falling in love for the first time,
staying in love during the rough times,
finding more to love about you every day.
And whenever I think about
the wonderful things that lie ahead of us,
I fall so totally and completely,
In love with you,
All over again.

You need to understand,
with you my love has no beginning,
and most certainly no end,
My love for you,
I most certainly know,
Only knows,
FOREVER!

Aww
That says it all

[DeathAngel]

To my Dear and Loving Husband

By Anne Bradstreet


If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay;
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persever,
That when we live no more, we may live ever.

[mukta581]

My Love

My love is like an ocean
It goes down so deep
My love is like a rose
Whose beauty you want to keep.

My love is like a river
That will never end
My love is like a dove
With a beautiful message to send.

My love is like a song
That goes on and on forever
My love is like a prisoner
It's to you that I surrender.

Perfection in my Eyes

All I ever wanted was to be part of your heart,
And for us to be together, to never be apart.

No one else in the world can even compare,
You're perfect and so is this love that we share.

We have so much more than I ever thought we would,
I love you more than I ever thought I could.

I promise to give you all I have to give,
I'll do anything for you as long as I live.

In your eyes I see our present, our future and past,
By the way you look at me I know we will last.

I hope that one day you'll come to realize,
How perfect you are when seen through my eyes.

[intoxicatedsoul]

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

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 it's 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 that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings

[mukta581]

You will never know!!!!
You will never know,
how much you hurt me,
when you walk way,

you will never know,
how much i cry,
when you never say i love you,

you will never know,
how much i just love you,
and only you,

you will never know,
how much i want to be with you,
cause i am so happy,

you will never know,
how much it hurts,
when you leave me on my own,

you will never know,
how much i truly,
do trust you,

you will never know,
how much,
you really do mean to me!!

[LarryK]

from one of the oldest love songs:

... I am the rose of Sharon,
and the lily of the valley,
As the lily among thorns,
so is my love among the daughters,

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,
so is my beloved among the sons.
I sat down under his shadow
with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
He brought me to the banqueting house,
and his banner over me was love.

Stay me with flagons,
comfort me with apples:
for I am sick with love. ...

from The Song Of Solomon: 2:1-5, KJV

oh, also: ASPHODEL by William Carlos Williams [much too long to quote, but one of the greatest of all love poems]

[JBrower]

Sky Blue and Black by Jackson Browne
In the calling out to one another
Of the lovers up and down the strand
In the sound of the waves and the cries
Of the seagulls circling the sand
In the fragments of the songs
Carried down the wind from some radio
In the murmuring of the city in the distance
Ominous and low

I hear the sound of the world where we played
And the far too simple beauty
Of the promises we made

If you ever need holding
Call my name, Ill be there
If you ever need holding
And no holding back, Ill see you through
Sky blue and black

Where the touch of the lover ends
And the soul of the friend begins
Theres a need to be separate and a need to be one
And a struggle neither wins
Where you gave me the world I was in
And a place I could make a stand
I could never see how you doubted me
When Id let go of your hand

Yeah, and I was much younger then
And I must have thought that I would know
If things were going to end

And the heavens were rolling
Like a wheel on a track
And our sky was unfolding
And itll never fold back
Sky blue and black

And Id have fought the world for you
If I thought that you wanted me to
Or put aside what was true or untrue
If Id known thats what you needed
What you needed me to do

But the moment has passed by me now
To have put away my pride
And just come through for you somehow

If you ever need holding
Call my name, Ill be there
If you ever need holding
And no holding back, Ill see you through

Youre the color of the sky
Reflected in each store-front window pane
Youre the whispering and the sighing
Of my tires in the rain
Youre the hidden cost and the thing thats lost
In everything I do
Yeah and Ill never stop looking for you
In the sunlight and the shadows
And the faces on the avenue
Thats the way love is
Thats the way love is
Thats the way love is
Sky blue and black

[quasimodo1]

MORE STRONG THAN TIME
Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet,
Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid,
Since I have known your soul, and all the bloom of it,
And all the perfume rare, now buried in the shade;

Since it was given to me to hear on happy while,
The words wherein your heart spoke all its mysteries,
Since I have seen you weep, and since I have seen you smile,
Your lips upon my lips, and your eyes upon my eyes;

Since I have known above my forehead glance and gleam,
A ray, a single ray, of your star, veiled always,
Since I have felt the fall, upon my lifetime's stream,
Of one rose petal plucked from the roses of your days;

I now am bold to say to the swift changing hours,
Pass, pass upon your way, for I grow never old,
Fleet to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers,
One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I hold.

Your flying wings may smite, but they can never spill
The cup fulfilled of love, from which my lips are wet;
My heart has far more fire than you can frost to chill,
My soul more love than you can make my soul forget

[thom]

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

[Tarquin]

my favorite love poem is by Cassandra Clare, in her book City of Bones:

"To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed"

[thom]

"Celia Celia", Adrian Mitchell

When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope has gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on

[7deadlysins]

Auden's 'Tell me the truth about Love'

My boyfriend read this two me one afternoon.
It's just beautiful.

O Tell Me The Truth About Love


Some say love's a little boy,
And some say it's a bird,
Some say it makes the world go around,
Some say that's absurd,
And when I asked the man next-door,
Who looked as if he knew,
His wife got very cross indeed,
And said it wouldn't do.

Does it look like a pair of pyjamas,
Or the ham in a temperance hotel?
Does its odour remind one of llamas,
Or has it a comforting smell?
Is it prickly to touch as a hedge is,
Or soft as eiderdown fluff?
Is it sharp or quite smooth at the edges?
O tell me the truth about love.

Our history books refer to it
In cryptic little notes,
It's quite a common topic on
The Transatlantic boats;
I've found the subject mentioned in
Accounts of suicides,
And even seen it scribbled on
The backs of railway guides.

Does it howl like a hungry Alsatian,
Or boom like a military band?
Could one give a first-rate imitation
On a saw or a Steinway Grand?
Is its singing at parties a riot?
Does it only like Classical stuff?
Will it stop when one wants to be quiet?
O tell me the truth about love.

I looked inside the summer-house;
It wasn't over there;
I tried the Thames at Maidenhead,
And Brighton's bracing air.
I don't know what the blackbird sang,
Or what the tulip said;
But it wasn't in the chicken-run,
Or underneath the bed.

Can it pull extraordinary faces?
Is it usually sick on a swing?
Does it spend all its time at the races,
or fiddling with pieces of string?
Has it views of its own about money?
Does it think Patriotism enough?
Are its stories vulgar but funny?
O tell me the truth about love.

When it comes, will it come without warning
Just as I'm picking my nose?
Will it knock on my door in the morning,
Or tread in the bus on my toes?
Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

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 it's 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 that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings

I read this last summer, i think it one of the most beautiful poems i have ever read, so simple, so real.