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Romantic Valentines Day Poems

to send to your sweetheart.

Welcome to the Valentines Day Poems page, a place for all your favourite romantic love poems and poetry. It is a place where you can pull out all the stops on romance, bringing out the spirit of love in all our hearts. Valentines Day poems express your feelings, in a very special and loving way, enjoy these poems and even send them with a Valentines Day greeting card to your sweetheart.

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Presented here are a great selection of Valentines Day poems to you,

from some of the greatest Poets in history.

Here is my Favourite pick of the Valentines Day Poems in this section (first line):
"Licence my roving hands, and let them go,"

I would that you were in mine arms,

or I in yours - for I think it long since I kissed you.

King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn 1528

I can neither eat nor sleep for

thinking of you, my dearest love.

I never even touch pudding.

Admiral Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton 1800

One kind kiss before we part,

Drop a tear and bid adieu;

Though we sever, my fond heart

Till we meet shall pant for you.

Robert Dodsley - 1703 - 1764

(The Parting Kiss)

My Bounty is boundless as the sea,

My love as deep; the more I give to thee,

The more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare - 1564 -1616

(Romeo and Juliet)

You glow in my heart

Like the flames of uncounted candles.

But when I go to warm my hands,

My clumsiness overturns the light,

and then I stumble

against the table and chairs.

Amy Lowell 1874 - 1925

I love you Livy, - indeed I do you you,

Livy...I love you beyond all expression,

Livy it is strange I never thought to tell you before.

But I do love you, darling.

Mark Twain to his future wife, Olivia Langdon 1869

Licence my roving hands, and let them go,

Before, behind, between, above, below.

John Donne 1573 - 1631

(To his Mistress)

Here is my Favourite pick of the Valentines Day Poems in this section (first line):
"Let us together closely lie and kiss,"

...Once he drew with one long kiss my whole soul through my lips...

Alfred Lord Tennyson - 1809 - 1892

(Fatima)

Consumed by fire with my love for you.

I remember what you said to me.

I am thinking of your love for me.

I am torn by your love for me.

Kwakiutl Poem - 1896

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:

for thy love is better than wine.

Song of Solomon 1:2

Let us together closely lie and kiss,

There is no labour, nor no shame in this;

This hath pleased, and long will please; never

Can this decay, but is beginning ever.

Petronius Arbiter - 1st Century AD

...Yet he turn'd once more to look

At the sweet sleeper, - all his soul was shook,-

She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more

He could not help but kiss her and adore.

John Keats - 1795 - 1821

(Endymion)

Ah! when will this long weary day have end,

And lend me leave to come unto my love?

Edmund Spencer 1552 - 1599

(Epithalamion)

...the utmost share

Of my desire shall be

Only to kiss the air

That lately kissed thee.

Robert Herrick 1591 - 1674

(To Electra)

Here is my Favourite pick of the Valentines Day Poems in this section (first line):
"In vain I have struggled. It will not do."

Love is an act of endless forgiveness,

a tender loo which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov 1921 - 2004

I wish I could remember the first day,

First hour, first moment of your meeting me;

If bright or dim the season, it might be

Summer or winter for aught I can say.

So unrecorded did it slip away,

So blind was I to see and to foresee,

So dull to mark the budding of my tree

That would not blossom yet for many a May.

If only I could recollect it! Such

A day of days! I let it come and go

As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow.

It seemed to mean so little, meant so much!

If only now I could recall that touch,

First touch of hand in hand! - Did one but know!

Christina Rossetti 1830 - 1894

In vain I have struggled. It will not do.

My feelings will not be repressed.

You must allow me to tell you how

ardently I admire and love you.

Jane Austen 1775 - 1817

Mr Darcy to Elizabeth Bennett - Pride and Prejudice

If 'tis love to wish you near,

to tremble when the wind I hear,

Because at sea you floating rove;

If of you to dream at night,

To languish when you're out of sight,

If this be loving, then I love

Charles Dibdin 1745 - 1814

How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight...

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning 1806 - 1861

Come live with me and be my love,

And we will all the pleasures prove,

That valleys, groves and hills and fields,

Woods or steepy mountain yields.

Christopher Marlow 1564 - 1593

Having for several Sundays had the pleasure

of sitting near you in church, I have been deeply

impressed with a passionate love for you.

My thoughts during the service are so

wholly engrossed with your charms that

I am afraid I require the forgiveness of heaven

as well as of yourself.

The Penny Love Letter Writer: 1883

Shall a woman's virtues move
Me to perish for her love?
Or her well deserving known
Make me quite forget my own?
Be she with that goodness blest
Which may merit name of Best,
If she be not such to me,
What care I how good she be?

George Wither 1588 - 1667

(The Lover's Resolution)

Here is my Favourite pick of the Valentines Day Poems in this section (first line):
"But how am I to live many months without seeing you?..."

And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went
In that new world which is the old:
Across the hills, and far away
Beyond their utmost purple rim,
And deep into the dying day
The happy princess follow'd him.

“I’d sleep another hundred years,
“O love, for such another kiss;”
“O wake for ever, love,” she hears,
“O love, ‘twas such as this and this.”
And o'er them many a sliding star,
And many a merry wind was borne,
And, stream'd through many a golden bar,
The twilight melted into morn.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892

(The Day-Dream - The Departure)

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

George, Lord Byron 1788 - 1824

She walks in Beauty

'Do come to me Heathcliff'.

In her eagerness she rose and supported herself

on the arm of the chair. At that earnest appeal,

he turned to her, looking absolutely desperate.

His eyes wide and wet, at last, flashed fiercely

at her; his breast heaved convulsively.

An instant they held asunder; and then

how they met I hardly saw,

but Catherine made a spring,

and he caught her, and they were

locked in an embrace from which I thought

my mistress would never be released alive.

Emily Bronte 1818 - 1848

Wuthering Heights

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!
Christopher Marlowe 1564 - 1593

(Faustus)

I cannot be more lonely,

more drear I cannot be!

My worn heart throbs so wildly

'Twill break for thee.

Emily Bronte 1818 - 1848

But how am I to live many months without seeing you?...

The hours I spend with you,

I look upon as a sort of perfumed garden,

a dim twilight and a fountain singing to it...

Shall I be able to endure this long exile?

George Moore to Lady Cunard 1907

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