Societal & Cultural Knowledge

Three Love Poems

Love is a strong feeling and it is a central theme in art. Artists and poets have depicted love in everlasting masterpieces. For those who don't understand the feeling, poetry can turn the essence of love into eternal, timeless and universal poetic images.


Nov 09,2013
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Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:

If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.


William Shakespeare

Love One another


Love one another, but make not a bond of love Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.


Fill each other's cup, but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread, but eat not from the same loaf.


Sing and dance together and be joyous,
but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.


Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping;
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.


And stand together yet not too near together;
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Khalil Gibran

Love's philosophy


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 another's being mingle--
Why not I with thine?


See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower could 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?


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