Famous Love Poems Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Love Poems poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous love poems poems. These examples illustrate what a famous love poems poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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I Go Back To The House For A Book

by Billy Collins
 I turn around on the gravel
and go back to the house for a book,
something to read at the doctor's office,
and while I am inside, running the finger
of inquisition along a shelf,
another me that did not bother
to go back to the house for a book
heads out on his own,
rolls down the driveway,
and swings left toward town,
a ghost in his ghost...Read more of this...

If A Tree Could Wander

by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Oh, if a tree could wander      and move with foot and wings! It would not suffer the axe blows      and not the pain of saws! For would the sun not wander 

The Way Things Should by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

What will
our children do in the morning? Will they wake with their hearts wanting to play,
the way wings
should?  Will they have dreamed the needed flights and gathered
the strength from the planets that all
men and women need...Read more of this...

Letter to My Lover After Seven Years

by Erica Jong
 You gave me the child
that seamed my belly
& stitched up my life.

You gave me: one book of love poems,
five years of peace
& two of pain.

You gave me darkness, light, laughter
& the certain knowledge
that we someday die.

You gave me seven years
during which the cells of my body
died & were reborn.

Now we have died
into the limbo of lost loves,
that wreckage of...Read more of this...

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