Browse poems exploring the joys, difficulties, and complexities of love and relationships. Read related lesson plans.
“How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…
“Love Song for Love Songs” by Rafael Campo
A golden age of love songs and we still…
“Love Comes Quietly” by Robert Creeley
Love comes quietly…
“Resignation” by Nikki Giovanni
I love you because the Earth turns round the sun…
“Scaffolding” by Seamus Heaney
Masons, when they start upon a building…
“Gay Marriage Poem” by Jenny Johnson
We could promise to elope…
“The Wall Hanging I Never Noticed” by Dorothea Lasky
I never noticed before…
"Senior Discount" by Ali Liebegott
I want to grow old with you...
“our happiness” by Eileen Myles
was when the…
“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara
Is even more fun than going to San Sebastian…
“Astronomers Locate a New Planet” by Matthew Olzmann
Like the universe’s largest engagement ring, it twirls…
“Falling” by Patrick Phillips
The truth is that I fall in love…
“[Do you still remember: falling stars]” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Do you still remember: falling stars…
“Double Exposure” by May Swenson
Taking a photo of you taking a photo of me…
“Love at First Sight” by Wislawa Szymborska
They’re both convinced…
“poem i wrote sitting across the table from you” by Kevin Varrone
if I had two nickels to rub together…
“Battery” by Anne Waldman
A trio of instruments you love the notes…
“Poem to First Love” by Matthew Yeager
To have been told “I love you” by you could well be, for me...
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