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)
- 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)