Traditional & Classic Love Poems
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249) by Emily Dickinson
No, Love Is Not Dead by Robert Desnos
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold
Sonnets on Love XIII by Jean de Sponde
What Was Told, That by Jalalu’l-din Rumi
Two Loves by Lord Alfred Douglas
A Ditty by Sir Philip Sidney
Answer to a Child’s Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell
She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon Byron
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Look by Sara Teasdale
Song to Celia by Ben Jonson
Love by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love in a Life by Robert Browning
A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
Meeting at Night by Robert Browning
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing by Robert Herrick
Wooing Song by Giles Fletcher
Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember] by Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata [I loved you first] by Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata [I dream of you, to wake] by Christina Rossetti
Lovers’ Infiniteness by John Donne
Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The White Rose by John Boyle O’Reilly
Let Us Live and Love (5) by Gaius Valerius Catullus
The Face of All the World (Sonnet 7) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In a Boat by D. H. Lawrence