A short love poems
There are many ways to express your love for a special someone. Sometimes, saying it out loud is hard because the words don’t seem to make sense. That’s where short love poems come into play.
Reading a short love poem to someone is a thoughtful gesture. Not only will it be easy for them to understand, but it will also make you feel better about yourself. Here are some of the best short love poems for any special occasion!
Some love poems are too long that your heart gets numb at the end. Love quotations are too short to capture the motion of your heart. Short love poems may be an alternative.
Most love short poems are very beautiful and heart-catching because the poets challenged themselves to capture their audience’s feelings instantly through the art of a few words.
Here are some of the best short love poems for any special occasion!
Proud Of My Broken Heart
Proud of my broken heart, since thou didst break it.
Proud of the pain, I did not feel ‘till thee.
Proud of my night, since thou, with moons, don’t shake it.
Not to partake thy passion, my humility
A short love poem by:
Emily Dickenson(1830-1886)
Emily Dickenson was one of America’s most celebrated poets. Her poetry is often considered to be the first great feminist work.
Dickenson wrote about her struggles with depression and mental health issues in a time when people were not as open as they are today.
She was able to bring light to her personal life and struggles, which helped others struggling with similar issues.
Emily Dickinson’s struggles with depression and mental health issues are an inspiration for many people today who still struggle in silence or face stigma for their diagnosis.
Desire
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.
A short love poem by:
Coleridge Samuel Taylor ( 1772 – 1834 )
Coleridge was one of the most influential poets of the Romantic period. In 1816, he published his famous poem “Desire.” The poem is about a young man who falls in love with a woman, but he is unsure if she feels the same way.
He wonders if her words and actions reflect that she does not love him. He is disappointed because he has been looking for love in all the wrong places.
Heart, we will forget him
Heart, we will forget him,
You and I, tonight!
You must forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.
When you have done pray tell me,
Then I, my thoughts, will dim.
Haste! ‘lest while you’re lagging
I may remember him!
A short love poem by:
Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)
Emily Dickenson is a famous American poet. She was born in the early 1800s and died in 1886. Her poems have been translated into many languages and she is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time.
Dickenson wrote her most famous poem, “we will forget him,”Dickinson’s poems are often difficult to understand because they are written in a way that is different from other poems. She also had a unique style of writing that was different from other poets of her time.
Dickinson’s poetry has been translated into many languages and is still widely read today.
Love – what is love
To friends at home, the lone, the admired, the lost
The gracious old, the lovely young, to May
The fair, December the beloved,
These from my blue horizon and green isles,
From this pinnacle of distances I,
The unforgetful, dedicated.
A short love poem by:
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Robert Louis Stevenson was an American author, poet, and travel writer. He is considered one of the greatest writers in the English language.
In this poem, Robert Louis Stevenson describes love as madness that makes the sane man see visions and hear voices. He also talks about how love can drive people to do crazy things like jumping off a cliff or into a volcano.
This poem is an example of how love can be used to describe different emotions and feelings in different ways.
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the clothes under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
A short love poem by: William Butler Yeats ( 1865 – 1939 )
“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” is one of the most famous poems by Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
It has been translated into over thirty-four languages and has been set to music by many composers, including Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Igor Stravinsky.
This poem is about a young man who wishes for wings so he can escape from his earthly life and soar into heaven where angels live.
The poem reflects on the idea that we will never be able to leave our earthly life behind because it will always be with us; however, it also shows how even in our darkest moments we are not alone because there are always angels around us in some form or another.
The love poems of William Butler Yeats are very different from the usual romantic love poetry, as they lack the usual sentimental imagery of roses and moonlight.
Instead, Yeats creates a unique universe of his own in which he describes the characteristics and peculiarities of love.
Love is anterior to life
Love is anterior to life
Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.A Short love poem by: Emily Dickenson
The poem “Love is anterior to life” by Emily Dickenson has been immensely popular for the last two centuries.
One of the most famous poems of Emily Dickinson is “Love is anterior to life”. The poem was first published in 1846 and it still remains popular today. The poem describes how love is more important than life itself and that love can transcend death.
The Moon, Alone
The moon, alone,
Taunts me from the heavens
With memories of you;
Should you feel the same, then
Our hearts would be as one
A Short love poem by: Saigyo, a Japanese poet (1119-1190)
Saigyo is a Japanese poet who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of haiku. He was born in Japan in 1119 and died in 1190.
He was also a Zen Buddhist priest, and his poems are influenced by Buddhist philosophy. His poems are often short, but they can have deep meanings.
Saigyo’s most famous work is called The Moon, Alone. The poem talks about the moon’s loneliness and how it reflects the protagonist’s feelings towards the person he loves.
Saigyo was a poet and expert calligrapher. Since he was known for his work ethic, many of these poems were done during the early morning hours before he went to work as a weaver.
Time is
too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is an eternity.
A Short love poem by: Henry Van Dyke(1852-1933)
The short love poems by Henry Van Dyke are a reminder of the power of words. He is one of the most popular poets in America and his work has been translated into many languages.
Henry Van Dyke was a 19th-century American poet. His famous poems include “The House of Life,” “The Village Blacksmith,” and “Time is.”
“Time is” is a short poem that was published in 1882. It tells the story of a man who has been waiting for his love to return for so long that he has forgotten what day it is. Despite the fact that he can’t remember, he still waits because time doesn’t matter to him anymore without her.
In this poem, Van Dyke describes how time has lost its meaning without his love and how the speaker’s life would be empty without her.
Time has lost its meaning without your heart beating, Managing my life would be as hard as trying to fill a bucket with a teaspoon.
All I ask
All I ask of a woman is that
she shall feel gently towards me
when my heart feels kindly toward her,
and there shall be the soft,
soft tremor as of unheard bells between us.
It is all I ask.
I am so tired of violent women lashing out and insisting
on being loved, when there is no love in them.
A Short love poem by: D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence lived an incredibly rich and fascinating life during the early 20th century. He wrote over 40 novels, and poetry collections, which have been translated into over 30 different languages and published worldwide.
In this poem, love is presented as something that is hard to find. It’s a beautiful yet heartbreaking description of the impossibility of finding true love.
This is a short love poem by the famous author D.H. Lawrence. All I ask is that you don’t leave me, For all my life I’ve looked for someone who will stay with me.
