Love Poems
Classic and contemporary love poems to share.
CLASSIC LOVE
- Bird Understander
- Craig Arnold
- Episode
- Zgbiniew Herbert
- To My Dear and Loving Husband
- Anne Bradstreet
- The Sun Rising
- John Donne
- Sonnet 40
- William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 65
- William Shakespeare
- Song: To Celia
- Ben Jonson
TEEN LOVE
- Poem for My Love
- June Jordan
- A Glimpse
- Walt Whitman
- Valentine
- Tom Pickard
- I Love You
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Knowing You Could Is Better Than Knowing You Will
- Mark Bibbins
- Recitative
- A.E. Stallings
FUNNY LOVE
- Love Explained
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Windchime
- Tony Hoagland
- The Quiet World
- Jeffrey McDaniel
- Video Blues
- Mary Jo Salter
- Bar Napkin Sonnet #11
- Moira Egan
FRIENDSHIP
- Inviting a Friend to Supper
- Ben Jonson
- Tenderness and Rot
- Kay Ryan
- Sonnet: I Thank You
- Henry Timrod
- Blue Ridge
- Ellen Bryant Voigt
- Luciferin
- Dean Young
- Love and Friendship
- Emily Jane Brontë
ROMANTIC LOVE
- My Lover Gave Me Green Leaves
- Josephine Dickinson
- I Loved You First
- Christina Rossetti
- You, Therefore
- Reginald Shepherd
- Poem to an Unnameable Man
- Dorothea Lasky
- Lines Depicting Simple Happiness
- Peter Gizzi
- Flirtation
- Rita Dove
- [love is more thicker than forget]
- E. E. Cummings
BREAK UP
- Poem
- Jill Alexander Essbaum
- They Flee From Me
- Thomas Wyatt
- The Nails
- W.S. Merwin
- I'll Open the Window
- Anna Swir
- A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will
- Isabella Whitney
- Neutral Tones
- Thomas Hardy
SAD LOVE
- Yours & Mine
- Alice Fulton
- Somewhere or Other
- Christina Rossetti
- Venice, Unaccompanied
- Monica Youn
- Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away
- John Fletcher
- A Broken Appointment
- Thomas Hardy
EROTIC
- First Poem for You
- Kim Addonizio
- "Lying in bed I think about you ..."
- Joshua Beckman
- Aubade
- Brenda Shaughnessy
- Project for a Fainting
- Brenda Shaughnessy
- The Imperfect Enjoyment
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
- Upon Julia’s Breasts
- Robert Herrick
FEATURED ARTICLES
- How to Write Love Poems
- By Jeremy Richards
- Poems to Send the Person You're Crushing On
- By Becca Klaver
- Queer Love Poems for Valentine's Day
- By Brian Reed
- Contemporary Poets Pick Their Favorite Love Poems
- By the Editors
- Love Poems from Poetry Magazine
- By the Editors
FEATURED AUDIO
- Heat
- By Jane Hirshfield
- Permanent Press
- By Alice Friman
- Rhapsody
- By David St. John
- Romantic Moment
- By Tony Hoagland
- Stolen Moments
- By Kim Addonizio
- This
- By Ralph Angel
I MISS YOU
- Having a Coke with You
- Frank O'Hara
- The Day is Gone
- John Keats
- Valentine
- Lorna Dee Cervantes
- Dear One Absent This Long While
- Lisa Olstein
- Country Love Song
- Melanie Almeder
- Then
- Roddy Lumsden
IN LOVING MEMORY
- We Never Know
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Love Letter (Clouds)
- Sarah Manguso
- Methought I saw my late espousèd saint
- John Milton
- You Were You Are Elegy
- Mary Jo Bang
- Buried at Springs
- James Schuyler
- An Elegy
- Ben Jonson
