- 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 summer’s day?” (1609) - William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 116 - “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” (1609) - Ben Jonson,
“Song to Celia” (1619) - John Donne,
“Air and Angels” (1633) - John Donne,
“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” (1633) - Robert Herrick,
“To Anthea Who May Command Him Anything” (1648) - Anne Bradstreet,
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” (1678) - Andrew Marvell,
“To His Coy Mistress” (1681) - Robert Burns,
“Song—A Red, Red Rose” (1794) - William Blake,
“The Clod and the Pebble” (1794) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
“Love” (1799) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
“Answer to a Child’s Question” (1802) - Percy Bysshe Shelley,
“Love’s Philosophy” (1819) - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton,
“I Do Not Love Thee” (1829) - 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) - Christina Rossetti,
“A Birthday” (1861) - William Butler Yeats,
“Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” (1899) - William Butler Yeats,
“A Poet to His Beloved” (1899) - Amy Lowell,
“In Excelsis” (1922) - Robert Frost,
“To Earthward” (1923)
Love Poems
A Collection of Classic Poems for Valentine’s Day
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