Top 10 Most Popular Love Poems in English That Melt Every Heart

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Love — it is the most powerful, emotional, and timeless feeling known to humankind. While love can be seen in gestures and felt in silence, poetry has always been its most beautiful voice. Over the centuries, many poets have tried to capture the magic of love in words, and some of those love poems have become unforgettable.

From classic sonnets to modern romantic verses, English literature is full of beautiful love poems that express every shade of affection, whether it is first love, deep passion, unspoken longing, or even heartbreak.

In this post, we bring you Popular Love Poems in English from the internet and literary world. These poems are written by some of the greatest poets, and they continue to touch hearts across the globe.

Top 10 Love Poems in English

No.Poem TitlePoetStyle
1Sonnet 18William ShakespeareClassic Sonnet
2How Do I Love Thee?Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnet
3Love’s PhilosophyPercy Bysshe ShelleyRomantic Verse
4She Walks in BeautyLord ByronDescriptive
5I Carry Your Heart With MeE.E. CummingsModern Free Verse
6A Red, Red RoseRobert BurnsSong-like Poem
7Annabel LeeEdgar Allan PoeNarrative/Lyrical
8Meeting at NightRobert BrowningRomantic Short Poem
9When You Are OldW.B. YeatsReflective
10Touched by An AngelMaya AngelouFree Verse

1. Sonnet 18 – Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

Poet: William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?  
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:  
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,  
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:  
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,  
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;  
And every fair from fair sometime declines,  
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;  
But thy eternal summer shall not fade  
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;  
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,  
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.  
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,  
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

2. How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

Poet: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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  
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.  
I love thee to the level of every day's  
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.  
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;  
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.  
I love thee with the passion put to use  
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.  
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose  
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,  
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,  
I shall but love thee better after death.

3. I Carry Your Heart With Me

Poet: E.E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in  
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere  
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done  
by only me is your doing,my darling)  
i fear  
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want  
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)  
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant  
and whatever a sun will always sing is you  

here is the deepest secret nobody knows  
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud  
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows  
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)  
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart  

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

4. She Walks in Beauty

Poet: Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night  
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;  
And all that's best of dark and bright  
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;  
Thus mellowed to that tender light  
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.  

One shade the more, one ray the less,  
Had half impaired the nameless grace  
Which waves in every raven tress,  
Or softly lightens o’er her face;  
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,  
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.  

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!

5. Love’s Philosophy

Poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fountains mingle with the river  
And the rivers with the ocean,  
The winds of Heaven mix forever  
With a sweet emotion;  
Nothing in the world is single;  
All things by a law divine  
In one another’s being mingle—  
Why not I with thine?  

See the mountains kiss high Heaven  
And the waves clasp one another;  
No sister flower would be forgiven  
If it disdained its brother;  
And the sunlight clasps the earth,  
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:  
What are all these kissings worth,  
If thou kiss not me?

6. Annabel Lee

Poet: Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,  
In a kingdom by the sea,  
That a maiden there lived whom you may know  
By the name of Annabel Lee;  
And this maiden she lived with no other thought  
Than to love and be loved by me.  

I was a child and she was a child,  
In this kingdom by the sea:  
But we loved with a love that was more than love—  
I and my Annabel Lee—  
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven  
Coveted her and me.

7. When You Are Old

Poet: W.B. Yeats

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,  
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,  
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look  
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;  

How many loved your moments of glad grace,  
And loved your beauty with love false or true,  
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,  
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;  

And bending down beside the glowing bars,  
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled  
And paced upon the mountains overhead  
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

8. A Red, Red Rose

Poet: Robert Burns

O my Luve’s like a red, red rose  
That’s newly sprung in June;  
O my Luve’s like the melody  
That’s sweetly played in tune.  

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,  
So deep in luve am I;  
And I will love thee still, my dear,  
Till a’ the seas gang dry.  

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,  
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:  
I will love thee still, my dear,  
While the sands o’ life shall run.  

And fare thee weel, my only Luve,  
And fare thee weel awhile!  
And I will come again, my Luve,  
Though it were ten thousand mile.

9. Touched by an Angel

Poet: Maya Angelou

We, unaccustomed to courage  
exiles from delight  
live coiled in shells of loneliness  
until love leaves its high holy temple  
and comes into our sight  
to liberate us into life.  

Love arrives  
and in its train come ecstasies  
old memories of pleasure  
ancient histories of pain.  

Yet if we are bold,  
love strikes away the chains of fear  
from our souls.  
We are weaned from our timidity  
In the flush of love’s light  
we dare be brave  
And suddenly we see  
that love costs all we are  
and will ever be.  
Yet it is only love  
which sets us free.

10. Love After Love

Poet: Derek Walcott

The time will come  
when, with elation,  
you will greet yourself arriving  
at your own door, in your own mirror,  
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,  

and say, sit here. Eat.  
You will love again the stranger who was your self.  
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart  
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you  

all your life, whom you ignored  
for another, who knows you by heart.  
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,  

the photographs, the desperate notes,  
peel your own image from the mirror.  
Sit. Feast on your life.

Conclusion: Love That Speaks in Verse

These 10 heartfelt poems show that love has many forms — soft, passionate, eternal, and even painful. Yet all of them are beautiful. Whether you’re in love, reminiscing about it, or longing for it, poetry helps you feel love in ways beyond words.

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