Pre to 1900
13 poems
How do I love theeby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 ~ 1861“if God choose I shall but love thee better after death”
How long we were fool'dby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“We have voided all but our own freedom, all but our own joy”
I know you knowby Michelangelo, 1475 ~ 1564“Let the wall between our hopes and desires be battered down.”
Ideas of right and wrongby Rumi, 1207 ~ 1273“Let the beauty we love be what we do”
Invitation to loveby Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872 ~ 1906“Come, O Love, whenever you may, and you are welcome, welcome”- Love, mere loveby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 ~ 1861“Let temple burn, or flax and an equal light leaps in the flames from cedar plank or weed. And love is fire.”
Marriage Morningby Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809 ~ 1892“This is the golden morning of love, and you are his morning star”
Nowby Robert Browning, 1812 ~ 1889“When ecstasies uptmost we clutch at the core”- Song of the Open Roadby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“I give you myself before preaching or law”
Sonnet 116by William Shakespeare, 1564 ~ 1616“If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved”- The Beauty we loveby Rumi, 1207 ~ 1273“The moment I heard my first love story I went looking for you”
The kissby Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 ~ 1941“Love is writing a song in a delicate script, kiss-calligraphy on lips”
The Wedding Marchby Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 ~ 1889“I to him turn with tears, whose wonder-wedlock deals triumph and immortal years”