Short Love Poems

The great thing about short love poems is that they're quick and easy to memorise! Which is great if you want to impress your partner.

Below is a selection of six short love poems along a variety of themes- some are romantic, some are sad and some are funny. All of them mangage to capture the essence of love in only a few words.

Green – D H Lawrence (1885 – 1930)

The dawn was apple-green,
The sky was green wine held up in the sun,
The moon was a golden petal between.

She opened her eyes, and green
They shone, clear like flowers undone
For the first time, now for the first time seen.

A Drinking Song – Robert Yates (1865-1939)

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.

A Statue of Eros - Zenodotos (b.325BC)

Who carved Love
And placed him by
This fountain,
Thinking
He could control
Such fire
With water?

The angel that presided over my birth – William Blake (1757 –1827)

The angel that presided over my birth
Said little creature formed of joy and mirth
Go love without the help of any king on earth.

Extract from Divan-I Shams – Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)

You are my sky, and I am the earth, bewildered:
What makes You constantly flow from my heart?
I am soil with parched lips! Bring kindly water
That will transform this soil into a rosebed!
How does the earth know what You sowed in its heart?
You have impregnated it, and You know its burden!

The Frozen Heart - Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

I freeze, I freeze, and nothing dwells
In me but snow, and icicles.
For pitties sake give your advice,
To melt this snow and thaw this ice;
I'll drink down flames, but if so be
Nothing but love can supple me;
I'll rather keep this frost, and snow,
Then to be thaw'd or heated so.

He Would Not Stay For Me... - A E Housman 1859 -1936

He would not stay for me: and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
And went with half my life about my ways.

If you've enjoyed these short love poems then why not take a look at our selection of romantic poems, funny love poems and sad love poetry.

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