Famous Love Poems

Famous Love poems are the most classic ones to woo your love with a poetic vision. It is said that no feeling can be compared to the one, when one falls in love. And it is even truer that there can be no such lowest feeling, compared to when one falls out of love. Whether you are happy of being in love or sad of falling out of love, famous love verses are the right way to express your heart's feelings.


There should not be any special day for expressing your love for someone. So you don't have to wait for Valentine's Day, any day can be the special day to say those three magical words, 'I Love You'.
 

"Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer's Day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May;
And summer's lease hath all too short a date."

Many renowned love poets of modern time as well as romantic era have written romantic poems of love. Let's start with the immortal love verse by William Shakespeare. In this sonnet, Shakespeare is being shown wooing his lady love. Here he compares her beauty to a day of summer. A day of summer is usually bright and dazzling, but he perceives her beauty even more temperate. He also mentions that every earthly beauty is meant to be died. But he wants to make the beauty of his beloved evergreen by portraying it in this love poetry.

It is very easy to claim that you love someone. But when it comes to confessing it in a creative way, most people often shy out. Many relationships break for wanting of proper communication, while some relationships do not even get a chance to blossom due to the same reason. Popular love poems can be an ideal panacea for those, who are timid enough to express their hearts. Probably for this kind of people, Andrew Marvell wrote one of the most famous love poems of all ages, To His Coy Mistress.

"Had we but world enough. And time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime
We would sit down and think which way
To talk and pass our long love's day."

Even though not published in the lifetime of the poet, this poem is truly a classic one. This poem is actually a literary advocate of the famous Carpe diem theory. According to poet, life and youth are very short. So the lover summons his love interest and asks her not to be shy in love. He also makes a strong appeal to all young people that they neither should waste their time in praising each other nor should remain silent when there is love's call.

Some other famous romantic poems on love are cited below:

Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank, she lends to those are free.
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thyself alone,
Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.
Then how, when nature calls thee to be gone,
What acceptable audit canst thou leave?
Thy unused beauty must be tomb'd with thee,
Which, used, lives th' executor to be.

Sonnet XI

As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
In one of thine, from that which thou departest;
And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st
Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest.
Herein lives wisdom, beauty and increase;
Without this, folly, age and cold decay:
If all were minded so, the times should cease
And threescore year would make the world away.
Let those whom Nature hath not made for store,
Harsh, featureless and rude, barrenly perish:
Look, whom she best endow'd she gave the more;
Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:
She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby
Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.

Sonnet VI

Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thyself to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:
Then what could death do, if thou shouldst depart.
Leaving thee living in posterity?
Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.

Poems for romantic lovers

Lovers on Aran by Seasmus Heaney

The timeless waves, bright, sifting, broken glass,
Came dazzling around, into the rocks,
Came glinting, sifting from the Americas
To posess Aran. Or did Aran rush
to throw wide arms of rock around a tide
That yielded with an ebb, with a soft crash?
Did sea define the land or land the sea?
Each drew new meaning from the waves' collision.
Sea broke on land to full identity."

It is one of the most popular love poems of all ages. In this poem, the poet seemed to fall short of words while describing his ladylove's beauty. He compared her beauty to cloudless and starry night. If you too want to surprise your girl with a romantic gift like this, don't waste your time and send her the love quote.

Love poems for frustrated lovers:

"Farewell love and all thy laws forever;
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.
....In blind error when I did persever,
Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore,
.....Therefore farewell; go trouble younger hearts
And in me claim no more authority."
By Sir Thomas Wyatt

It is one of the famous love verses written so far. Here the poet seemed to be totally disgusted over love and all the passionate feelings associated with love. He felt that since he was free from the pathos of love, he would never ever want love to return in his life again. Rather he believed that love is a game, which suits youngsters the best. So he wanted love to trouble only the young hearts and not him.

Sad Love Poems

"Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
that takes its meaning from the nobler part,
And but translates the language of the heart."
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Apparently this poem looks like a romantic verse, but this eternal love poem is more like a metaphor rather than a romantic love verse. In this poem, the poet metaphorically defines passionate love as a pain. He addressed love as it hurts and burns our feelings. Basically, there is a metaphor for fire and passionate love.

If you are in love and want to convey that special person here comes top three popular love poems till now.

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would

Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
The grave 's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapt power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

O Do not love too long by William Butler Yeats

Sweetheart, do not love too long:
I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.

All through the years of our youth
Neither could have known
Their own thought from the other's,
We were so much at one.

But O, in a minute she changed -
O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 -1892)

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The firefly wakens: waken thou with me.

Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.

Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake:
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.