Classic Love and Romance Poems

Here is one of the web's largest selections of some of the most beloved and famous love poetry throughout the centuries. It is sorted by poet. 

We also have a section of love and romance poems by contemporary poets. Click here for modern love poems.

Eliza Acton love poems

• I Love Thee

Dante Alighieri love poems

• La Vita Nuova    

Elizabeth Akers Allen love poems

• At Last

Matthew Arnold love poetry

• Longing

Margaret Atwood love poems

• Habitation

W. H. Auden love poems

• Lullaby

Alfred Austin love poems

• Love's Trinity

Samuel Alfred Beadle love poems

• My Suburban Girl

Aphra Behn love poems

• Love Arm'd

William Blake love poems

• The Clod and the Pebble

Anne Bradstreet love poems

• To My Dear and Loving Husband

Christopher Brennan love poems

• Because She Would Ask Me Why I Love Her

Elizabeth Barrett Browning love poems

• Sonnets from the Portuguese XIV

• How Do I Love Thee  

• Sonnets from the Portuguese XIII

Robert Browning love poems

• Life in a Love

• Meeting at Night

Lord Byron love poems

• She Walks in Beauty

• When We Two Parted

Robert Burns love poems

• A Red, Red Rose

John Clare love poems

• First Love

• Song of Secret Love

Samuel Taylor Coleridge love poems

• Love

Henry Constable love poems

• Damelus' Song to Diaphenia

William Cowper love poems

• To a Young Lady 

e.e. cummings love poems

• i carry your heart with me

Emily Dickinson love poems

• I Many Times Thought  

• Wild Nights--Wild Nights!

• What If I Say

• I Never Lost As Much

• I Sing

• We Play At Paste

• It's All I Have to Bring Today

• I Held a Jewel

• Heart, We Will Never Forget Him

• A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

John Donne love poems

• A Valediction Forbidden Mourning

• The Flea

Michael Drayton love poems

• Farewell to Love

George Eliot love poems

• Felix Holt, the Radical  

Eugene Field love poems

• A Valentine for My Wife

Thomas Ford love poems

• There is a Lady Sweet and Kind

Stephen Foster love poems

• Beautiful Dreamer

Robert Frost love poems

• To Earthward

• Reluctance

• Wind and Window Flower

• Love and a Question

Norman Roland Gale love poems

• My County Love

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe love poems

• Night Thoughts

Alfred P. Graves love poems

• My Love's A Match 

 Frantisek Halas love poems

• Confession

Robert Herrick love poems

• Upon Julia's Clothes

• Sweet Disorder

• To the Virgins, Make Much of Time

• To Anthea

Leigh Hunt love poems

• Jenny Kissed Me

Benjamin Jonson love poems

• Still to be Neat  

• Song: To Celia

John Keats love poems

• When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be

Omar Khayyam love poems

• A Book of Verse

Walter Savage Landor love poems

• Who Ever Felt as I  

Sidney Lanier love poems

• A Song of Love

D.H. Lawrence love poems

• On the Balcony

Li-Young Lee love poems

• From Blossoms

Richard Lovelace love poems

• Tell Me Not Sweet

• To Amarantha

Amy Lowell love poems

• Madonna of the Evening Flowers

Robert Lowell love poems

• Man and Wife

Katherine Mansfield love poems

• Camomile Tea

Christopher Marlowe love poems

• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Edna St. Vincent Millay love poems

• Untitled

Pablo Neruda love poems

• Clenched Soul

• Naked

• Love Sonnet LXXIX

• Love Sonnet IX

• Love Sonnet LXV

• Love Sonnet VII

• Love Sonnet XVII

• Love Sonnet XI

Edgar Allen Poe love poems

• A Dream Within a Dream

• Annabelle Lee

Alexander Pushkin love poems

• Wondrous Moment

Sir Walter Raleigh love poems

• The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd

James Whitcomb Riley love poems

• The Lost Thrill

Ranier Maria Rilke love poems

• Again and Again

Carl Sandburg love poems

• Under the Harvest Moon

• Maybe

William Shakespeare love poems

• Sonnet 44

• O Mistress Mine

• Shall I Compare Thee

• Sonnet CXVI

Percy Shelley love poems

• Music, When Soft Voices Die    

• Love's Philosophy

• The Indian Serenade

Solomon love poems

• Rose of Sharon

Edmund Spenser love poems

• My Love Is Like to Ice

Alfred Tennyson love poems

• Marriage Morning

Herbert Trench love poems

• She Comes Not

Unknown love poems

• My Love in Her Attire

Edmund Waller poems

• Go, Lovely Rose 

Margaret Walker poems

• Love Songs for Alex

Walt Whitman love poems

• To a Stranger

John Wilbye love poems

• Love Not Me

WB Yeats love poems

• He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 

• The Rose in the Deeps of His Heart

• The Ragged Wood

Andrew Young love poems

• Beauty and Love