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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
No poems match.
Keats
Teasdale
Rossetti
Byron
Noyes