Is there a line here that hits you right in the heart?
A great poem tends to have at least one line that jumps off the page — we call it the Gemstone. Read on. Is there a line that hits you right in the heart? That poem is calling to you.
50 lines
- “If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved”Sonnet 116 · Shakespeare
- “Let temple burn, or flax and an equal light leaps in the flames from cedar plank or weed. And love is fire.”Love, mere love · Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “This is the wonder that is keeping the stars apart.”I carry your heart · E. E. Cummings
- “I love your eyes when the lovelight lies lit with a passionate fire”I love you · Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- “To love another is something like prayer and can’t be planned.”Admonitions to a Special Person · Anne Sexton
- “You are helping me to make out of the lumber of my life, not a tavern, but a temple”Love · Roy Croft
- “Who would care to live til love has nothing more to ask, and nothing more to give.”I want to die while you love me · Georgia Douglas Johnson
- “All I do at piling stone on stone apart from you is roofless around nothing”Most like an arch · John Ciardi
- “Love costs all we are and will ever be, but it is only love that will set us free.”Touched by an angel · Maya Angelou
- “The world’s fullness is not made, but found.”Wedding Toast · Richard Wilbur
- “Let me keep company, always, with those who say “look” and laugh in astonishment and bow their heads.”Mysteries, yes · Mary Oliver
- “You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”Wild Geese · Mary Oliver
- “Alive; we’re alive, dear: it’s kiss me now spring”When faces called flowers · E. E. Cummings
- “We have voided all but our own freedom, all but our own joy”How long we were fool'd · Walt Whitman
- “Come, O Love, whenever you may, and you are welcome, welcome”Invitation to love · Paul Laurence Dunbar
- “On hands and knees the ocean begs up the beach, then falls at your feet.”Love Song · Henry Dumas
- “When ecstasies uptmost we clutch at the core”Now · Robert Browning
- “This is the golden morning of love, and you are his morning star”Marriage Morning · Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “Once you agree that life is just life forevermore, together, wing to wing and oar to oar”The master speed · Robert Frost
- “I to him turn with tears, whose wonder wedlock deals triumph and immortal years”The Wedding March · G. M. Hopkins
- “We have become as one, deep rooted in the soil of Life and tangled in the sweet growth”We are young · J. R. R. Tolkien
- “if God choose I shall but love thee better after death”How do I love thee · Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “We will pluck til times and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun”Song of Wandering Aengus · W. B. Yeats
- “Until even silent dreams had been allowed”Book of Genesis · Kei Miller
- “The only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom”Gift from the Sea · Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “With wonder at having survived this far, we are learning to make fire”Habitation · Margaret Atwood
- “May your tears and your smiles happen always face to face.”House of Stone · Carmen Bugan
- “Since the dawn of history marriage has transformed strangers into relatives, binding families and societies together”Obergefell v. Hodges · Justice Anthony Kennedy
- “I meant skies all empty aching blue. I meant years. I meant all of them with you.”Patagonia · Kate Clanchy
- “You’ve simply had enough of drowning and you want to live and you want to love and you will walk across any territory and any darkness however fluid and however dangerous to take the one hand you know belongs in yours.”The Truelove · David Whyte
- “No poems written to praise you. I write them white.”White Writing · Carol Ann Duffy
- “I cough up daylight like I’ve just been dragged ashore”Wishing Well · Gregory Pardlo
- “You make me feel like each of the five galaxies swirling in Stephan’s Quintet”Love from NGC7318 · Tanerelle
- “Love makes you meet people wherever you go”Love is like owning a dog · Taylor Mali
- “I’d still spend at least 10.21 processing cycles a month just sitting on a virtual couch with you, watching virtual TV, eating virtual fajitas”Scientific Romance · Tim Pratt
- “Let living room pianos invite unwashed hands”Zuccini Shofar · Sarah Lindsay
- “Things can happen and frequently do, to people as brainy and footsy as you”Oh, the places you will go! · Dr. Seuss
- “You in shorts and socks and sandals; Me with warts and huge love handles”Love me · Bee Rawlinson
- “Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up”Learned in Kindergarten · Robert Fulghum
- “The delight when your courage kindled and out you stepped onto new ground”For a new beginning · John O’Donohue
- “Be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night”On marriage · Kahlil Gibran
- “Let love be a moving sea between the shores of your souls”On Love · Kahlil Gibran
- “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul”Salt Rose and Topaz · Pablo Neruda
- “Love is writing a song in a delicate script, kiss calligraphy on lips”The kiss · Rabindranath Tagore
- “The moment I heard my first love story I went looking for you”The Beauty we love · Rumi
- “Let the beauty we love be what we do”Ideas of right and wrong · Rumi
- “I give you myself before preaching or law”Song of the Open Road · Walt Whitman
- “My heart was made to be split open, like the milkweed pod, and scattered”Epiphany · Sophie Strand
- “You draw from me broken now holy that yes”Your Cathedral · Wilfred O’Dea
- “I would be met, and meet you so, in a green airy space, not locked in.”About Marriage · Denise Levertov