Short Love Poems

Sometimes all you need is some short piece of love poetry to use for a special occasion you are attending.  It could even be a short love poem to write inside a card to your loved one.

I have identified a large number of short romantic love poems that can be used in this way.  While you will also many short poems in some of our other poetry sections I feel there is a need to identify a group for you where you will be able to find something suitable for your loved one as quickly as possible.

This brings up an question I had to ask.

Should I be putting Shakespeare’s sonnets which are all fairly short poems in this category or in the famous love poems category.  Obviously they could fit in both.  But I am told by other people who know more than I do that this would not be a good idea as the search engines will punish us for duplicate content.

Apparently even if it is the same page if it is pointed to through different category names then Google will think we are trying to trick them.  What I was advised to do in this case was to publish a sonnet poem in one category but then to give links to other similar love poems in the other category.

For that reason very rarely will any poem be added to more than category for example you will not find any particular poem in both the short love poem section and romantic love poems.  Where it does happen it is more than likely to be a mistake on our behalf.   It is most likely to happen as the site gets larger and we forget that we have added a particular piece of love poetry already.  If you find something like that please let us know.

Love Poems That Have Become Famous

Famous love poems fall into different groups that naturally overlap with each other.

• Love poems written by famous poets and writers
• Love poems written by people who were mainly famous for other reasons.
• Love poems that have become famous because of the quality of the writing.

The first group obviously include people who were professional poetry writers such as Dylan Thomas, Robert Burns,  Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband Robert Browning.

The second group were people who had become famous for other reasons would include military people like Napoleon Bonaparte, politicians such as Randolph Churchill, Kings such as Henry VII of England.

Then there are the most famous love poems that are listed here for themselves.  These love poems make us pull up sharp stop doing whatever we were doing and think about what the poet is saying.

What ever type of famous love poem you are looking for  I am sure you will be able find something suitable here in this section.

Humorous Love Poems That Make You Laugh

We all need a laugh at times.  Whilst fully supporting the concept behind the original famous expression I think this version is almost as important.

“Couples That Laugh Together Stay Together”.

Just like the original quote “Families Who Pray Together Stay Together” it is about having time together sharing the most important times. There are very few more important in our lives than laughing and having fun with each other.

Wedding Poems

Every schoolgirl is dreaming about the day when she is going to be walking down the church isle.   It is designed to be the most romantic day of her life.  Where would that day be without including some romantic wedding poems either during the marriage ceremony or as part of the speeches given by the more important guests such as the best man and after of the bride.

Our wedding poems section also includes a large number of love poems around the theme of weddings or are romantic love poems that can be included in the various wedding speeches that follow the main cermony.

Romantic Love Poems

Of all the different types of love poems written over the centuries the group that fall within the category of “Romantic Love Poems” are without doubt the most popular.  Just read the poem “My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose” by Robert Burns (or we in Scotland know him better Rabbie Burns) its opening lines for example

“O, my luve’s like a red red rose
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.”

It is about a fresh love and brings in the freshness of a new red rose (giving a red rose a long standing tradition in many countries of showing love).  Yet we also know the rose bush keeps on growing every year bringing forth new life as it blooms each year.

What Is The Attraction Of Romantic Love Poems?

Almost everyone knows or has experienced this type of romantic-type love at some time in their lives.  For some it will have been that first crush you had for someone in your class and the embarrassment you may have felt when you blushed every time you had to speak or go past. Maybe you are thinking more about your first real relationship when you spent considerable time together and got to know each other better allowing the romantic love to develop rather than just someone who you are attracted to.

When most people think of love poetry, it is this very type of love that they are thinking about.

We’re talking about the love between two people who care about each other and are attracted to each other in a romantic way.  The word love is expressed to have so many meanings but romantic love is the one we all want.  That attraction that feeling of only wanting to share your life with one person leads to the massive amount of romantic love poetry published today.

We are publishing some of the most roamntic love poems that we can find today. Sign up for our email list in the top right hand corner and get a free copy of our new book “101 Steps to a More Romantic Relationship” to bring your loving relationship closer still.

At the bottom of that posting I asked for people to come back in a similar mode in a response. I just loved Vicki’s love poem so much I had to create a special page just for it. She has captured the spirit of the first poem and responded so well I just could not stop myself from laughing. Yes she is also an Aussie which probably helped her to get into the same spirit.

But read on  to understand why I think this is so good and then comment underneath.

You love me you say darling,
In amongst the farts that make you “charming”
You flatter me with your manipulative words
To get me to do your work and clean up the turds

My bum may be big but have you looked in the mirror?
Your flab and farts are much like a sewer
All drabs of fat and lard that covers you
It’s time that you got out and dug out the doggy doo

Time to mow the lawn and take over the chores
The time is now to get off that bum of yours
Mowing and chopping you seem to say it’s for my pleasure
Now it’s time for you to cut out your leisure

I will sit on my ass and watch a chick flick
And order you around as you have turned into a dick
Lost in your world of footy and beer and sex
I roll my eyes at the stupidity of that hex

And when you do take over these chores and I smile
I won’t tell your mates how small “it” is and I won’t lie
How droopy “the boys” are that nearly come to your knees
You are no longer pleasant to the young Shiela to tease

Disgust would be their first impressions of you
An Old Man thinking that he’s a stud to the ewes
Come to that, you can get your own dinner
While I sit here and eat the chocolates and simmer.

So be careful boy of mine because you could be in hell
Remember that you have no idea what truths I can tell
To the boys at the bar you will be a laughing stock
Now I will snap my fingers as I am the boss and you are not.

Vicki Wilson

My husband Ron had taken the first Aussie love poem and printed it alongside a photo he had of me wearing “hot pants” back in the late 1960’s then framed it. I am going to take this responsive love poem and do the same with a photo I have of him when he was only one or two years old. They will both lend a bit of humour to the situation.

If you think that is weird of us putting things like that on our walls it is part of the deep loving relationship we share together. We know how to wind up each other and share a joke together in teasing. It never goes too far and if it did one word from either of us would stop it immediately.

Do we get any more of these humorous love poems coming in?  Remember people who laugh together (WITH not AT each other) will stay together.

Look forward to reading your love poems whether funny or strongly romantic

Carol

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning

Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were a well known couple in Victorian literary circles. A strange match coming from very different backgrounds they eloped to get married after a lengthy exchange of letters to each other.
Many of these letters still exist and I publish some of them on our LoveLettersCentral.com site. They later settled in Florence (where their son Robert Wiedemann Barrett was born).

The Autumn,

Go, sit upon the lofty hill,
And turn your eyes around,
Where waving woods and waters wild
Do hymn an autumn sound.

The summer sun is faint on them —
The summer flowers depart —
Sit still — as all transform’d to stone,
Except your musing heart.

How there you sat in summer-time,
May yet be in your mind;
And how you heard the green woods sing
Beneath the freshening wind.

Though the same wind now blows around,
You would its blast recall;
For every breath that stirs the trees,
Doth cause a leaf to fall.

Oh! like that wind, is all the mirth
That flesh and dust impart:
We cannot bear its visitings,
When change is on the heart.

Gay words and jests may make us smile,
When Sorrow is asleep;
But other things must make us smile,
When Sorrow bids us weep!

The dearest hands that clasp our hands, —
Their presence may be o’er;
The dearest voice that meets our ear,
That tone may come no more!

Youth fades; and then, the joys of youth,
Which once refresh’d our mind,
Shall come — as, on those sighing woods,
The chilling autumn wind.

Hear not the wind — view not the woods;
Look out o’er vale and hill -
In spring, the sky encircled them —
The sky is round them still.

Come autumn’s scathe — come winter’s cold —
Come change — and human fate!
Whatever prospect Heaven doth bound,
Can ne’er be desolate.

Elizabeth Moulton Barrett (1806-61) was born in the north east of England (County Durham) the eldest of a family of 12. At the age of 32 the family moved from the open countryside to central London (50 Wimpole Street).

Although an established and famous poet even before she came into first contact with Robert Browning she wrote her most famous love poems (Sonnets from the Portuguese) some four years after their marriage (see links above).

Aurora Leigh (a love story written entirely in verse) written in 1857 was a huge success in many ways establishing Elizabeth Barrett Browning as one of the best writers of romantic love poems of the Victorian era. She was never a strong person and her health grew steadily worse before dying in June 1861.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was buried in Florence, Italy the place where the couple had made their home for many years.

Although Robert Browning (1812-89) is considered as one of our greatest Victorian romantic love poem writers in the view of many people he was never as good as his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A Londoner by birth (his father worked as a clerk in the Bank of England).  one of Robert Browning’s early works achieved much success possibly because they were not easy to understand so never sold widely.   After his marriage and a lack of success with several works he practically gave up writing to take care of his sickly wife.

After her death Robert Browning again turned back to writing poetry publishing Dramatis Personae (1864) was a huge success which he built on with his greatest work The Ring and the Book (1868).  None of his later books sold as well so he continued to live largely in the shadow of his late wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, until his death in the cold winter of 1889. Although Robert Browning died in Venice his body was returned to London for burial in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey.

If it was your work then we apologise for publishing it here without your permission but we did attempt to discover who you were.   I know it has brought a lot of joy and laughs into peoples lives for which we really thank you. Please contact us and allow the honour of giving you full glory for writing this love poem.

An Australian romantic love poem

Of course I love ya Darling
your a bloody top notch bird
and when I say ur gorgeous
I mean every single word

So ya bum is on the big side
I don’t mind a bit of flab
it means that when I’m ready
theres something there to grab

So your belly isn’t flat no more
I tell ya, I don’t care
So long as when I cuddle ya
I can get my arms around there

No Sheila who’s your age
has nice round perky breasts
they just gave into gravity
but I know ya did ya best

I’m tellin ya the truth now
I never tell ya lies
I think its very sexy
That you have got dimples on ya thighs

I swear on me Nanna’s grave now
the moment that we met
I thought u was as good as
I was ever going to get.

No matter wot U look like
I’ll always love ya dear
Now shut up while the footys on
and get me another beer!

As we said at the beginning this is truly a romantic love poem written about a man’s love for his wife who may not be a teenager any longer with a slim and fit body but he is saying he still loves her because of who she is.  Despite what advertising companies say it is not physical appearance that counts within a long term loving relationship but the way you relate to each other and the trust that has been built up.

However if you are an Aussie woman and want to get some “playful revenge” on the writer of this love poem to his wife then please send us your romantic (funny) love poem about the man in your life. We will gladly publish and give even more people a laugh. Lets face it we all need a good laugh and sense of humour nowadays don’t we?

Read what Vicki Wilson had to say in her “Romantic Love Poem” to this man.  If you enjoyed this love poem you will definitely laugh out loud at her love poem.

Carol

by Christie Lund

They see you as a woman, as a bride,
Sweet in a modeled gown of creamy lace;
Your blue eyes turned to him in trust and pride,
Your golden curls a halo for your face.
Yet I, your mother, see you not as this
Alone: I see you as a baby in my arms,
Helpless and small, mine to adore and kiss;
I see you, as a child of three whose charms
And childish laughter are for me me alone;
I see your first, brief step beside my knee;
I see you in the years when you have grown
Into a lovely woman that they see.
A thousand priceless memories I keep
Within my heart. Forgive me that I weep.

Yes of course at any wedding the one person that everyone looks at is the bride. She gets all the attention and so she should it is her big day!

However her mother must have some deep feelings on this wedding day.  This wedding poem expresses not just the love for her duaghter on this special day but reflects back over the brides life as a little girl growing up and the loving characteristics shown in various ways.

Of course the bride’s mother is meant to shed a tear of joy for her daughter at her wedding. But this short love poem brings out the reasons behind the joyful tears spilled at weddings up and down the country.

The violet loves a sunny bank,
The cowslip loves the lea,
The Scarlet creeper loves the elm,
But I love — thee.

The sunshine kisses mount and vale,
The stars they kiss the sea,
The west winds kiss the clover bloom,
But I kiss — thee.

The oriole weds his mottled mate,
The lilies bride o’ the bee
Heaven’s marriage ring is round the earth —
Shall I wed thee?

The Wedding Proposal is a rarely used love poem in weddings nowadays but deserves to be read far more often.

Its simplicity of showing love and romance across nature with each verse ending in a simple statement showing the connection between nature and his own love for his prospective bride with the marriage proposal being in the very last line.  You can just imagine Bernard Taylor (the writer of this loving poem) dropping to his knee to speak the last verse.

Interestingly Bernard Taylor wrote a long list of poetry books having been commisioned by various publishers to walk across the United States to inspire him in his thinking of new love poetry topics.

Born in 1825 in Pennsylvania his first poem was published when he was only 16 years of age.  He died in Germany in 1878 whilst serving as minister to Germany on behalf of the American Government.

If you are thinking of a wedding proposal and looking to use a very simple romantic and loving poem then do consider this.