Favorite Poems About Love

Are you looking for the best and sweetest short poems about love 0n the Internet? Then you have come to the right place.   We present to you the most romantic poems about love ever written.  Get inspired a poem about love and fall in love all over again!

Poems about Love and Pain

Cello
By Joan Valerie Oreilly

“He captivated my soul in sleep
His cello voice could make me weep
His symphony played right to my heart
In dreams we’d share; awake, we’d part

The sweetest sound of the violin
Could make it all begin again
The conductor would tap, the orchestra play,
I close my eyes and drift away”

Sad Poems About Love

Music, when soft voices die
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory—
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap’d for the beloved’s bed;
And so thy thoughts when thou are gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.”

Famous Poems About Love

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
By William Shakespeare

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

Classic Poems about Love

I Do Not Love You (Sonnet XVII)
By Pablo Neruda

“I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
Or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:
where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.”

Funny Poems About Love

Accidents Happen
By Paul Curtis

“Kids messing about in the backs of cars
Can sometimes cause accidents to happen
While accidents in the backs of cars
Almost always cause kids to happen”

Poems About Love and Friendship

Can We Still Be Friends
By Kathleen Sheppard

“I was cold and hurting
lost out in the night
wandering and searching
for heaven’s light

I saw the night sky clearing
when you spread your rainbow wings
But little did I know
what joy you would bring

From that moment on
a friendship did start
you kissed away my tears
and sheltered my heart

I bless the day God
sent him from above
But then I grew fearful
for I had fallen in love

I told you this feeling
and what did you say?
You said you liked our friendship
and that’s how it would stay

I cried for a friendship I thought I lost
But then felt your warm, gentle hand
You then whispered in my ear
that by my side you’ll forever stand”

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