12+ Greatest Love Poems

Discover the 10 best love poems ever written according to Writers Digest Senior Editor and Poetic Asides columnist Robert Lee Brewer.

Greatest love poems. Fortunately it does so for the better in one of the best love poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz Before You Came Excerpt. I love you with my every Breath by Joseph Plunkett. Whether its for an anniversary Valentines Day or just because heres a selection of love poems for your special someone. I thought this year Id share my top 10 best love poems ever written.

I dont love you as if you were a rose of salt topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire. Any Lit by Harryette Mullen. I have loved flowers that fade by Robert Bridges. Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare.

Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare. I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You by Pablo Neruda. I Love You by Sara Teasdale. All of them are about love.

All of them are beautiful. Top 10 Favorite Love Poems. If you disagree with my choices please feel free to compile your own but. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove.

A Shakrespearean sonnet cherished for over 400 years for its hopefulness and promis of eternal and unchanging love. So the world may become like itself again. Perhaps one of the most famous love poems of all time youve probably heard this ones iconic first lines. Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.

The rest is just as quotable. 2 How Do I Love Thee. So the sky may be the sky the road a road and the glass of wine not a mirror just a glass of wine. Sat we two one anothers best And if we dont stop at love poetry simply seeking The Greatest then remember all contributors the same poet wrote.

You are a union beyond my meiosis. The love theme was well explored by William Shakespeare in his sonnets. To My Dear and Loving Husband. Its just my favorites and I encourage.

You are a unicycle beyond my migration. No man is an Island entire of itself And of course. I love you as one loves certain obscure things secretly between the shadow and the soul. I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

You are a ukulele beyond my microphone. You are a universe beyond my mitochondria. Selecting the best love poems of all time has been a matter of personal taste and fancy. Any mans death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind.

I held a Jewel in my fingers by Emily Dickinson. You are a Yukon beyond my Micronesia. 4 Why Do I Love You Sir Emily Dickinson. Take all my loves my love yea take them all.

6 Love is enough William Morris. Categorized as a metaphysical poet Donne wrote some of the best known poems on the theme of love including The Good-Morrow and A Valediction. Here you will find PoemOfQuotes favorite poetry for the greatest romantic poems of all time. One man loved the pilgrim soul in you And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

William Butler Yeatss exploration of enduring love makes this one of the most famous love poems to date. 5 Shall I compare thee to a summers day. The couple in this poem is together for the long haul even as the rest of their lives and their bodies change. The Best Love Poems of All Time The Best Romantic Poems Ever Written The Best Valentines Day Poems for that Special Someone Which poets wrote the greatest love poems of all time.

Sometimes falling in love can upend our entire lives. Sonnet 43 Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Of course this is not an exhaustive or even overly authoritative list. 7 I do not love you Pablo Neruda.