There are 164 poems for Valentine's Day
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.“Feuerzauber”
By Louis Untermeyer
A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti
A Maul for Bill and Cindy’s Wedding
By Gary Snyder
A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns
A Token
By Robert Creeley
A un Desconocido
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Acts of Love
By Pam Rehm
After a God
By Jenny Browne
After Metaphysics, or When the Fly Leaves the Flybottle
By Deborah Slicer
Alas Madam for Stealing of a Kiss
By Thomas Wyatt
Altruism
By Molly Peacock
Always
By Rane Arroyo
Ars Amoris
By J. V. Cunningham
Astrophel and Stella XX
By Philip Sidney
At a Window 
By Carl Sandburg
Aubade
By Amber Flora Thomas
“As We Are So Wonderfully Done with Each Other”
By Kenneth Patchen
“Didn’t Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?”
By Marilyn Hacker
“Lying in bed I think about you ...”
By Joshua Beckman
Beautiful Dreamer Serenade
By Stephen C. Foster
Black Valentine
By Tess Gallagher
Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
By John Keats
Cave Dwellers
By A. Poulin
Chance Meeting
By Susan Browne
Clarinet
By Terrance Hayes
Colors passing through us
By Marge Piercy
Counsel to Unreason 
By Léonie Adams
Credo
By Matthew Rohrer
crossing into canaan 
By D.A. Powell
Cuckoldom 
By BJ Ward
Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
By Diane Wakoski
Dark Harvest
By Joseph Millar
Dear One Absent This Long While
By Lisa Olstein
Debt 
By Sara Teasdale
Domestic
By Carl Phillips
Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold
Eclipsed
By Richard Meier
Envoi
By Ezra Pound
Eros
By Robert Bridges
Eros of Heroines 
By Ange Mlinko
Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert
Finale
By Pablo Neruda
First turn to me. . . .
By Bernadette Mayer
For Anybody’s Martyr’s Song
By Jean Garrigue
Formerly Communist Love Sonnet
By Connie Deanovich
Friendship’s Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia
By Katherine Philips
From the Dressing-Room
By Medbh McGuckian
Hemachandra’s Grammar 418.1
By Anonymous
Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
By Wallace Stevens
I Knew a Woman
By Theodore Roethke
I Love Your Crazy Bones
By Barton Sutter
In Love with You 
By Kenneth Koch
In Tennessee I Found a Firefly
By Mary Szybist
in the Catskills again
By Dick Lourie
Juan’s Song
By Louise Bogan
Knowing You Could Is Better Than Knowing You Will
By Mark Bibbins
Leave-Taking 
By Louise Bogan
Lisa
By David Hernandez
Love and Death
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Love and Life: A Song
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Love in the Weather’s Bells
By Jay Wright
Love Letter (Clouds)
By Sarah Manguso
Love Pirates
By Joseph Millar
Love Poem with Harbor View
By Erica Funkhouser
Love Song 
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Love Song
By David P. Young
Lovers' Infiniteness
By John Donne
Lunchbox Love Note
By Kenn Nesbitt
Memory at These Speeds
By Jane Miller
Moraine for Bob
By Joanna Fuhrman
My Boyfriend
By Camille Guthrie
My Love
By Don Paterson
My Lover Gave Me Green Leaves
By Josephine Dickinson
Naima
By George Elliott Clarke
Negotiation
By Lisa Olstein
Odes 
By Fernando Pessoa
Old Love and New 
By Sara Teasdale
Older Love
By Jim Harrison
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
By Pablo Neruda
Passing Remark
By William E. Stafford
Pied Booty 
By Dabney Stuart
Poem for My Love
By June Jordan
Poem [“When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen”]
By Frank O'Hara
Postlude
By Noelle Kocot
Postlude 
By William Carlos Williams
Power in Silence
By Michael Field
Probation 
By Averill Curdy
Recitative 
By A.E. Stallings
Romance
By Claude McKay
Romantic
By Dara Wier
She Walks in Beauty
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Should the Wide World Roll Away
By Stephen Crane
Song (“Love has crept...”) 
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Song After Campion
By Robert Fitzgerald
Song from Arcadia: “My True Love Hath My Heart”
By Philip Sidney
Song to Celia
By Ben Jonson
Song: I prithee spare me gentle boy
By Sir John Suckling
Sonnet CXXX: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XX
By Pablo Neruda
Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
By William Shakespeare
Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I Love thee? Let me Count the Ways
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Study/Trees
By Leonard Gontarek
Sublimation Point
By Jason Schneiderman
Sunflower
By André Breton
Superbly Situated
By Robert Hershon
sweet reader, flanneled and tulled
By Olena Kalytiak Davis
The Bait
By John Donne
The Best Slow Dancer
By David Wagoner
from The Book of Funnels
By Christian Hawkey
The Cloister
By William Matthews
The Diner
By Richard Jones
The Ecstasy
By John Donne
The Flea
By John Donne
The Good-Morrow
By John Donne
The Goose Fish
By Howard Nemerov
The Greatest Love
By Anna Swir
The Healing Improvisation of Hair
By Jay Wright
The House of Life: 22. Heart's Haven
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The house was just twinkling in the moon light
By Gertrude Stein
The Hush of the Very Good 
By Todd Boss
The Illiterate
By William Meredith
The Kiss
By Kirmen Uribe
The Love Cook
By Ron Padgett
The lover
By Sina Queyras
The Orange
By Wendy Cope
The Orchid Flower
By Sam Hamill
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear
The Parlement of Fowls
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
By Christopher Marlowe
The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto Ríos
The Quiet World
By Jeffrey McDaniel
The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine
The Shipfitter’s Wife
By Dorianne Laux
The Shirt
By Jane Kenyon
They
By Wendell Berry
This 
By Ralph Angel
To a Husband 
By Amy Lowell
To His Coy Mistress
By Andrew Marvell
To My Dear and Loving Husband
By Anne Bradstreet
To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday
By Wendell Berry
To You
By Kenneth Koch
Togetherness 
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Tree Marriage
By William Meredith
from Twenty-One Love Poems: XIII
By Adrienne Rich
Valentine
By Tom Pickard
Valentine To RR Written Extempore Feb. 14 1802
By Charlotte Richardson
Valentine's Afternoon 
By Michael McFee
VooDoo/Love Magic
By Angela Jackson
Want Song
By Lance Larsen
We Had Words
By Vona Groarke
Wedding Dress
By Michael Waters
What You Pray Toward
By Patricia Smith
When ’Midst the Gay I Meet
By Thomas Moore
When Sappho Wrote
By Gregory Orr
White Rose
By Tom Pickard
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
By Walt Whitman
Wild nights - Wild nights! (269)
By Emily Dickinson
Windchime
By Tony Hoagland
Wishes to his (Supposed) Mistress
By Richard Crashaw
You! Inez!
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
You, Therefore
By Reginald Shepherd
You’re
By Sylvia Plath
Yours & Mine
By Alice Fulton
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