From Bob Holman & Margery Snyder,
Your Guide to Poetry.
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Gathered here are just a few of the greatest classic love poems, so that you can quote them to the one you love on Valentine’s 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 summer’s 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,
  “Song—A 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)