CLASSIC LOVE

Bird Understander

Craig Arnold
To My Dear and Loving Husband

Anne Bradstreet
The Sun Rising

John Donne
Sonnet 40

William Shakespeare
Sonnet 65

William Shakespeare
Song: To Celia

Ben Jonson

TEEN LOVE
Poem for My Love

June Jordan
A Glimpse

Walt Whitman
Valentine

Tom Pickard
I Love You

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Recitative

A.E. Stallings

FUNNY LOVE
Love Explained

Jennifer Michael Hecht

Windchime

Tony Hoagland
The Quiet World

Jeffrey McDaniel
Video Blues

Mary Jo Salter
Bar Napkin Sonnet #11

Moira Egan

FRIENDSHIP
Inviting a Friend to Supper

Ben Jonson
Tenderness and Rot

Kay Ryan
Sonnet: I Thank You

Henry Timrod
Blue Ridge

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Luciferin

Dean Young

Love and Friendship

Emily Jane Bront

ROMANTIC LOVE
I Loved You First

Christina Rossetti
You, Therefore

Reginald Shepherd
Poem to an Unnameable Man

Dorothea Lasky
Lines Depicting Simple Happiness

Peter Gizzi
Flirtation

Rita Dove
[love is more thicker than forget]

E. E. Cummings

BREAK UP
Poem

Jill Alexander Essbaum

They Flee From Me

Thomas Wyatt
The Nails

W.S. Merwin
I'll Open the Window

Anna Swir
A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will

Isabella Whitney
Neutral Tones

Thomas Hardy

SAD LOVE
Yours & Mine

Alice Fulton
Somewhere or Other

Christina Rossetti
Venice, Unaccompanied

Monica Youn
Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away

John Fletcher
A Broken Appointment

Thomas Hardy

EROTIC
First Poem for You

Kim Addonizio
"Lying in bed I think about you ..."

Joshua Beckman
Aubade

Amber Flora Thomas

Project for a Fainting

Brenda Shaughnessy
The Imperfect Enjoyment

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Upon Julia's Breasts

Robert Herrick

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Poems to Send the Person You're Crushing On

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Contemporary Poets Pick Their Favorite Love Poems

By the Editors
Love Poems from Poetry Magazine

By the Editors

FEATURED AUDIO
Heat

By Jane Hirshfield
Permanent Press

By Alice Friman
Rhapsody

By David St. John

Romantic Moment

By Tony Hoagland
Stolen Moments

By Kim Addonizio
This

By Ralph Angel

I MISS YOU

The Day is Gone

John Keats
Valentine

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Dear One Absent This Long While

Lisa Olstein
Country Love Song

Melanie Almeder
Then

Roddy Lumsden

IN LOVING MEMORY

O
We Never Know

Yusef Komunyakaa

Love Letter (Clouds)

Sarah Manguso
Methought I saw my late espousd saint

John Milton
You Were You Are Elegy

Mary Jo Bang
Buried at Springs

James Schuyler
An Elegy

Ben Jonson