famous poetry on love
We all know how romantic love can make us feel. Love makes our hearts break and mend, it makes us happy and sad and so we write about it in everything we do. These famous love poems have been included with the poets’ original text.
Some people say that poetry is the language of love. Others say that love has no language but they are both right in their own ways: poetry helps express our feelings, while love often shows through actions more than words.
Love is an inexhaustible and challenging subject for famous poets. They believe that feelings are universal but almost inexpressible. The challenge for the poets is to express love feelings in a general version, which managed to touch the hearts of many experiences.
There are a few famous poems on love that has been passed – down from generation to generation. These poems can move the readers in an instant.
The famous love poems are the works of creative and talented poets, who had specifically engineered to reach a large number of lovers by simplifying feelings and applying beautiful language.
The famous love poems below are selected from famous American poet Christina Rossetti and from famous Irish poet Oscar Wilde’s love poems collection.
The following is a list of famous poetry on love for you to read and enjoy.
A BIRTHDAY
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love has come to me.
Raise me a daïs 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 comes to me.
Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894)
Christina Rossetti is one of the most famous English Romantic poets. Her poem, A Birthday, is a reflection on how the world changes with time and how life goes on regardless of the passage of time.
“A birthday” is a poem written by Christina Rossetti. The poem is about how she wishes to celebrate her birthday with her loved ones.
The poem was written as a gift for her friend, Elizabeth Siddal, on her birthday in 1881. The two women were very close and Rossetti wrote the poem in response to the letter that Elizabeth had sent to congratulate Rossetti on turning 30 years old.
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HER VOICE
The wild bee reels from bough to bough
With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,
Now in a lily cup, and now
Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,
In his wandering;
Sit closer love: it was here I trow
I made that vow,
Swore that two lives should be like one
As long as the sea-gull loved the sea,
As long as the sunflower sought the sun,-
It shall be, I said, for eternity
‘Twixt you and me!
Dear friend, those times are over and done;
Love’s web is spun.
Look upward where the poplar trees
Sway and sway in the summer air,
Here in the valley never a breeze
Scatters the thistledown, but there
Great winds blow fair
From the mighty murmuring mystical seas,
And the wave-lashed leas.
Look upward where the white gull screams,
What does it see that we do not see?
Is that a star? or the lamp that gleams
On some outward voyaging argosy,
Ah! can it be
We have lived our lives in a land of dreams!
How sad it seems.
Sweet, there is nothing left to say
But this, that love is never lost,
Keen winter stabs the breasts of May
Whose crimson roses burst his frost,
Ships tempest-tossed
Will find a harbor in some bay,
And so we may.
And there is nothing left to do
But to kiss once again, and part,
Nay, there is nothing we should rue,
I have my beauty,- your Art,
Nay, do not start,
One world was not enough for two
Like me and you.
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)
