Birthday Love Poems

Birthdays come once a year. It gives you a rare opportunity to express your near and dear ones how much you love him/her. What can be a better way to make the birthday of your near ones most special other than the birthday Love poems? These poems can express your true feelings, even if they are untold. Believe it or not, these love poems can excite any person and make him/her fill with tears of joy, be it your family or friend. The poems meant for birthdays definitely have the power to make the recipient feel very special.

The birthday love poems also make the birthday gift look even more special. Birthday gifts should focus on the personal likings and personality of the recipients. If you can make your own birthday poem for your near and dear ones, no other poem would match up to its emotional value. Try to incorporate all the feelings, love and emotions, you feel for the person. If it's your kid, then try to make the poem rhyme as well as try to make them hilarious by adding some odd stuff. And if your beloved's birthday is here, write a romantic love verse for her. If you are not creative enough to customize your own poem, then rely on some classic ones.

Classic Birthday Poems

• Birthday (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  
  My heart is like a singing bird
  Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
  My heart is like an apple-tree
  Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
  My heart is like a rainbow shell
  That paddles in a halcyon sea;
  My heart is gladder than all these
  Because my love is come to me.
  
  Raise me a dais of silk and down;
  Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
  Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
  And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
  Work it in gold and silver grapes,
  In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
  Because the birthday of my life
  Is come, my love is come to me.

• Happy Birthday To A Special Friend (J S Bach)
  
  Happy birthday to a special friend.
  All my love to you this precious day!
  Part of me knows just what I should say;
  Part perhaps some deeper word would send.
  You're the strand on which I silent write
  Before my dreams are swept far out to sea.
  In you there's room to canter and run free,
  Restoring my lost sense of space and light.
  To me you are a place where I can stay,
  Hanging out to watch the rush of time,
  Drawing in the sand a lazy line
  Along which I can go my own sweet way.
  You are my sun and shade, my bread and wine.

These two poems show two pictures of birthday celebrations. In the first poem, the poetess compares her birthday with her love. She was happy because her birthday was coming and sounds even happier as her love would come to her on that day. In the second poem, the poet wished a very happy birthday to his special friends and he wished all the happiness in his life.
 

• A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
  
  My heart is like a singing bird
  Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
  My heart is like an apple-tree
  Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
  My heart is like a rainbow shell
  That paddles in a halcyon sea;
  My heart is gladder than all these
  Because my love is come to me.
  
  Raise me a dais of silk and down;
  Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
  Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
  And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
  Work it in gold and silver grapes,
  In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
  Because the birthday of my life
  Is come, my love is come to me.

• A Prayer for a Mother's Birthday by Henry Van Dyke
  
  Lord Jesus, Thou hast known
  A mother's love and tender care:
  And Thou wilt hear, while for my own
  Mother most dear I make this birthday prayer.
  
  Protect her life, I pray,
  Who gave the gift of life to me;
  And may she know, from day to day,
  The deepening glow of Life that comes from Thee.
  
  As once upon her breast
  Fearless and well content I lay,
  So let her heart, on Thee at rest,
  Feel fears depart and troubles fade away.
  
  Her every wish fulfill;
  And even if Thou must refuse
  In anything, let Thy wise will
  A comfort bring such as kind mothers use.
  
  Ah, hold her by the hand,
  As once her hand held mine;
  And though she may not understand
  Life's winding way, lead her in peace divine.
  
  I cannot pay my debt
  For all the love that she has given;
  But Thou, love's Lord, wilt not forget
  Her due reward,--bless her in earth and heaven.