Gathered here are just a few of the greatest classic love poems, so that you can quote them to the one you love on Valentines Day:
- Christopher Marlowe,
from Hero and Leander - Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight? (1598)
- Christopher Marlowe,
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1598)
- William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summers day? (1609)
- William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds (1609)
- John Donne,
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (1633)
- Anne Bradstreet,
To My Dear and Loving Husband (1678)
- Andrew Marvell,
To His Coy Mistress (1681)
- Robert Burns,
SongA Red, Red Rose (1794)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Love (1799)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Sonnet 14 - If thou must love me (1850)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Sonnet 21 - Say over again (1850)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Sonnet 43 - How do I love thee? (1850)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Sonnet 44 - Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers (1850)
- William Butler Yeats,
Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (1899)
- William Butler Yeats,
A Poet to His Beloved (1899)