Best Love Poems Of All Time

Best Love Poems Of All Time

So, I'm into reading romantic stuff now! Poetry kinda appeals to the human race and dwells deeper into our souls than the usual texts. I wanted to start my journey into the poetical world with this book, since I bought it long back, but due to circumstantial reasons, I had to repeatedly postpone reading it. Finally, I've now finished the book and here are some of the lines that caught my attention :

1. I Do Not Love Thee by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

"I know I do not love thee! yet, alas!

Others will scarcely trust my candid heart;

And oft I catch them smiling as they pass,

Because they see me gazing where thou art."

2. I Wish I Could Remember by Christina Rossetti 

"I wish I could remember that 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"

3. My Love Is Like To Ice by Edmund Spenser 

"What more miraculous things may be told,

That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice;

And ice, which is congeal'd with senseless cold,

Should kindle fire by wonderful device!

Such is the power of love in gentle mind,

That it can alter all the course of kind."

4. The Ballad Of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

"Some love too little, some too long,

Some sell, and others buy;

Some do the deed with many tears,

And some without a sigh:

For each man kills the thing he loves,

Yet each man does not die."

5. My True-Love Hath My Heart, a song from Arcadia by Philip Sidney 

"My true-love hath my heart and I have his,

By just exchange one for the other given:

I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss;

There never was a bargain better driven."

6. Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

"It was partly love, and partly fear,

And partly 'twas a bashful art,

That I might rather feel, than see,

The swelling of her heart."

7. Heart, We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson 

"Heart, we will forget him!

You and I, to-night!

You may forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the light."

Overall, it was a cool experience reading the poem collection...!

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Read for life...!