Valentine's Day: 10 poems to share with your love

Poetry happens to be one of the most beautiful ways to articulate a person’s emotion into something, making it easier to understand what they wish to convey. A poem is also seen as a genuine gesture for a lot of purposes, because whatever is written comes straight from the heart. And one of the best days to finally use poetry is ‘The Day of Love’ a.k.a. Valentine’s Day. This day involves one of the strongest emotions ever felt by a human soul, love. Using poetry to express your feelings towards someone you are extremely passionate about is a wonderful way to leave an impression in their hearts. And if you can’t write one in your own words, fear not. Here we share some poems that can help you express your love to your partner.
How do I love thee? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

A Red, Red Rose – Robert Burns
So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote Her Name – Edmund Spenser
“… My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew."

To My Dear and Loving Husband – Anne Bradstreet
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.

Before You Came – Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Don’t leave now that you’re here–
Stay. So the world may become like itself again:
so the sky may be the sky,
the road a road,
and the glass of wine not a mirror, just a glass of wine.

Heart to Heart – Rita Dove
I can’t wear it
on my sleeve,
or tell you from
the bottom of it
how I feel. Here,
it’s all yours, now—
but you’ll have
to take me,
too.

For Keeps – Joy Harjo
We know ourselves to be part of mystery.
It is unspeakable.
It is everlasting.
It is for keeps.

Yours - Daniel
Without you I'd be an unleafed tree
Blasted in a bleakness with no Spring.
Your love is the weather of my being.
What is an island without the sea?

Rondel of Merciless Beauty – Geoffrey Chaucer
Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly;
Their beauty shakes me who was once serene;
Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen. Only your word will heal the injury
To my hurt heart, while yet the wound is clean

Married Love – Kuan Tao-Sheng
I am in your clay.
You are in my clay.
In life we share a single quilt.
In death we will share one bed.