Best Short Romantic Love Poems

Stars, you are unfortunate, I pity you,
Beautiful as you are, shining in your glory,
Who guide seafaring men through stress and peril
And have no recompense from gods or mortals,
Love you do not, nor do you know what love is.
Hours that are aeons urgently conducting
Your figures in a dance through the vast heaven,
What journey have you ended in this moment,
Since lingering in the arms of my beloved
I lost all memory of you and midnight.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

I Love You

I love you
because the Earth turns round the sun
because the North wind blows north
sometimes
because the Pope is Catholic
and most Rabbis Jewish
because winters flow into springs
and the air clears after a storm

~ Nikki Giovanni ~

That Love is All There is

That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.

~ Emily Dickenson ~

Prelude to Winter

The moth under the eaves
with wings like
the bark of a tree, lies
symmetrically still -

And love is a curious
soft-winged thing
unmoving under the eaves
when the leaves fall.

~ William Carlos Williams ~