There is something about poetry that lends itself uniquely to entreaties of love. Whether it be Valentines Day, a new romance or a long-term relationship, there is a poem that captures how you feel about someone special in your life. Here are some of the very best love poems.
- WB Yeats - Aedh Dreams of the Cloths of Heaven
- Adrian Mitchell - Celia Celia
- Maya Angelou - Come and Be My Baby
- William Shakespeare - Feste's Song
- Robinson Jeffers - For Una
- AE Housman - From far, from eve and morning
- e e cummings - i carry your heart with me
- Theodore Roethke - I Knew A Woman
- John Cooper Clarke - I Wanna be Yours
- WH Auden - If I Could Tell You
- Leigh Hunt - Jenny Kissed Me
- Pablo Neruda - Leaning Into The Afternoons
- Pablo Neruda - Love Sonnet XI
- Ted Hughes - Lovesong
- ee cummings - may i feel said he
- Robert Graves - She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep
- Lord Bryon - She Walks In Beauty
- ee cummings - somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
- Edwin Morgan - "Strawberries"
- WB Yeats - The Song of Wandering Aengus
- Thomas Campion - There Is A Garden In Her Face
- Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
- Anne Bradstreet - To My Dear and Loving Husband
- John Donne - Twickenham Garden
- Carol Ann Duffy - Valentine
- Alice Oswald - Wedding
- Adrian Henri - Without You