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Poems About Love

Classic poems about love, each in full with a plain summary and an original analysis.

25 poems
A BirthdayMy heart is like a singing bird Christina Rossetti Lyric A Red, Red RoseO my Luve’s like a red, red rose, Robert Burns Ballad Annabel LeeIt was many and many a year ago, Edgar Allan Poe Ballad Bright StarBright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— John Keats Sonnet EndymionA thing of beauty is a joy for ever: John Keats Narrative How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet I Am Not YoursI am not yours, not lost in you, Sara Teasdale Lyric Love and a QuestionA stranger came to the door at eve, Robert Frost Love Came Down at ChristmasLove came down at Christmas, Christina Rossetti Lyric On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year’T is time this heart should be unmoved, Lord Byron Lyric Sonnet 18Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? William Shakespeare Sonnet The Ballad of the OystermanIt was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side, Alfred Noyes Ballad The FleaMark but this flea, and mark in this, John Donne Lyric The Good-MorrowI wonder, by my troth, what thou and I John Donne Lyric The HighwaymanPART ONE Alfred Noyes Ballad The Hound of HeavenI fled Him, down the nights and down the days; Ode The KissI hoped that he would love me, Sara Teasdale Lyric The LookStrephon kissed me in the spring, Sara Teasdale Lyric The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockS’io credesse che mia risposta fosse T. S. Eliot Dramatic Monologue What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and WhyWhat lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, Edna St. Vincent Millay Sonnet When I Have Fears That I May Cease to BeWhen I have fears that I may cease to be John Keats Sonnet When I Was One-and-TwentyWhen I was one-and-twenty A. E. Housman Lyric When We Two PartedWhen we two parted Lord Byron Lyric When You Are OldWhen you are old and grey and full of sleep, W. B. Yeats Lyric Wild Nights – Wild Nights!Wild nights! Wild nights! Emily Dickinson Lyric