Love is a common theme in poetry. Learn from the following famous poets on how to write love poems.
     
** William Shakespeare
    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18)
    Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd (Sonnet 24)
    Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116)
    My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
    A Lover's Complaint
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  ** Other Poets
    The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell
    My Picture Left in Scotland by Ben Jonson
   
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
   
Love (III) by George Herbert
   
How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
   
The Ark Upon His Shoulders by Forrest Gander
   
Homecoming by Robert Lowell
   
The Baite by John Donne
    my father moved through dooms of love by E E Cummings
    As I Walked Out One Evening by W H Auden
     
    More Valentine's Poems
     
  ** Learn how to write a poem!
     
  ** Want to create your own love poem?
DIY Poetry
   
 

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Source: Alphabet Soup, BBC, Poem Tree, The Academy of American Poets,
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