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Love is patient, love is kind, love is writing a cute poem for your boyfriend just to make him cry. If you want to compare your boyfriend to a summer’s day, you’ve come to the right place—-just let us count the ways. We’ve put together the ultimate, heart-wrenching list of beautiful love poems for him (from both classic and contemporary writers). You’ll find short love poems , deep ones , cute ones , and even poems for long-distance relationships , and more. Plus, we’ve included tips from Adrienne Raphel, a professional writer, on how to write your very own personalized love poem .
Choosing a Heartfelt Love Poem for Your BF
Writer Adrienne Raphel advises to “be as specific as you can” when choosing a love poem. “It comes across on the page as an expression of love, because love is noticing and love is paying attention.” Here are some poetic lines that may resonate with your boyfriend:
- Without you, I'd be an unleafed tree / Blasted in a bleakness with no Spring / Your love is the weather of my being / What is an island without the sea? – Daniel Hoffman
- In my future, I see you and me / And a house and garden filled with trees / I see dinner parties surrounded by friends, / And a vegetable patch we love to tend. – Emma Salmon
- The minute I heard my first love story / I started looking for you, / Not knowing how blind that was / Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. / They’re in each other all along. – Rumi
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Section 1 of 6:
Short Love Poems to Make Your Boyfriend Cry
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I think of our love,
And a smile springs to my lips.
My heart overflows.
– Kelly Roper [1] X Research sourceMeet the wikiHow Expert
Adrienne Raphel is a writer who teaches graduate-level poetry and nonfiction as part of the Mountainview MFA program of Southern New Hampshire University, the Writer's Foundry MFA program of St. Joseph's University, and the Berlin Writers' Workshop.
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2The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you,
Not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.
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You are truly the epitome of perfection,The embodiment of all that is good and remarkable.Your kindness knows no bounds,Your love is boundless,And your presence brings endless joy.In my eyes, there is simply no one else who compares.– Taloula Moretti
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4Dinner dates, walks in the park
Neither of us knowing quite what to say.
Your hand in mine, a beautiful start
I don't know about tomorrow,
but we have today.
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5Love comes quietly,
finally, drops
about me, on me,
in the old ways.
What did I know
thinking myself
able to go
alone all the way.
– Robert Creeley [4] X Research source -
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn
the edge of the receding glacier
where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far
we are learning to make fire
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7The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast
And folks is smoking anything that’ll burn
Some people wrap their lives around a cocktail glass
And you sit wondering
where you’re going to turn.
I got it.
Come. And be my baby.
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8If my lover were a comet
Hung in air,
I would braid my leaping body
In his hair.
Yea, if they buried him ten leagues
Beneath the loam,
My fingers they would learn to dig
And I’d plunge home!
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How love came in I do not know,
Whether by the eye, or ear, or no;
Or whether with the soul it came
(At first) infused with the same;
Whether in part ’tis here or there,
Or, like the soul, whole everywhere,
This troubles me: but I as well
As any other this can tell:
That when from hence she does depart
The outlet then is from the heart.
– Robert Herrick [8] X Research source
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Cute Love Poems to Make Your Boyfriend Cry
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I am yours as the summer air at evening is
Possessed by the scent of linden blossoms
As the snowcap gleams with light
Lent it by the brimming moon
Without you I'd be an unleafed tree
Blasted in a bleakness with no Spring
Your love is the weather of my being
What is an island without the sea?
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2Handsome, funny, sweet:
The basic qualities
That most people think
A boyfriend should be.
But you have them beat.
With a mind that's unique,
Thoughts that run deep,
And your soul, so free.
More importantly,
We make a great team.
Together we achieve
Unimaginable feats.
I look at you and see
The true man of my dreams,
With you, I am me.
You're the one I'll keep.
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In my future, I see you and me,
And a house and garden filled with trees.
I see dinner parties surrounded by friends,
And a vegetable patch we love to tend.
I see cosy nights in front of the fire,
And a four-poster bed for when we tire.
I see our kitchen which will be the heart of the home,
And a Victorian bath brimming with foam.
I see muddy wellies by the front door,
And the kids eating cookies and asking for more.
I see nights in the garden camping under the stars,
And shelves full of mismatching local jam jars.
I see family picnics outside with the dog,
And a little blue shed containing the logs.
I see us sat by the window watching the snow,
And reading the papers and learning to grow.
I see pictures of family in quirky frames,
And letters on the kids’ doors spelling out their names.
I see laughter, pain, kisses and tears,
And helping each other to confront our fears.
I see you as my friend and also my lover,
Your confidant and your children’s mother.
I see a wonderful future for you and I,
And it’s cloaked in love until we die.
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4The day we met, the sun shone so bright,
A spark in the darkness, my guiding light.
I felt it inside, a whisper so sweet,
In that fleeting moment, my heart skipped a beat.
From strangers to lovers, our story began,
Two souls intertwined, a beautiful plan.
I cherish that moment, forever it stays,
The day we met changed all of my ways.
– Author Unknown [12] X Research source -
5I belong in your arms
Finally, I have found a place
Into which I fit perfectly, safely
And securely with no doubts,
No fears, no sadness, no tears.
This place is filled with happiness and laughter
Yet it is spacious enough, to allow me
The freedom to move around,
To live my life and be myself.
This wonderful place, which I never believed really existed,
I have found finally
Inside your arms, inside your heart, inside your love.
– Deborah Brideau [13] X Research source -
I've been waiting for a spark,
To ignite within my heart.
Something I could feel -
Someone genuine and real.
Then you came along
Like a sweet love song.
Making me smile
In your typical style.
You're what I needed,
Expectations exceeded.
Each moment, exciting.
Our souls colliding.
Let's see where this goes,
Though I already know
Together, we'll go far.
Arm-in-arm.
– Casey Gamble [14] X Research source -
7If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay;
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persever,
That when we live no more we may live ever.
– Anne Bradstreet [15] X Research source -
8your little voice
Over the wires came leaping
and i felt suddenly
dizzy
With the jostling and shouting of merry flowers
wee skipping high-heeled flames
courtesied before my eyes
or twinkling over to my side
Looked up
with impertinently exquisite faces
floating hands were laid upon me
I was whirled and tossed into delicious dancing
up
Up
with the pale important
stars and the Humorous
moon
dear girl
How i was crazy how i cried when i heard
over time
and tide and death
leaping
Sweetly
your voice
– E.E. Cummings [16] X Research source -
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.
– William Butler Yeats [17] X Research source
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Deep Love Poems to Make Your Boyfriend Cry
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In your arms, I’m home, safe and sound,
Where whispers of love in silence abound.
The world fades away, troubles all cease,
In your warm embrace, I find my peace.
With every heartbeat, our souls intertwine,
A sanctuary built on love so divine.
No matter the storms that life may send,
In your arms, I’m home, my lover, my friend
– Author Unknown [18] X Research source -
2Everything Good between Men and Women
has been written in mud and butter
and barbecue sauce. The walls and
the floors used to be gorgeous.
The socks off-white and a near match.
The quince with fire blight
but we get two pints of jelly
in the end. Long walks strengthen
the back. You with a fever blister
and myself with a sty. Eyes
have we and we are forever prey
to each other’s teeth. The torrents
go over us. Thunder has not harmed
anyone we know. The river coursing
through us is dirty and deep. The left
hand protects the rhythm. Watch
your head. No fires should be
unattended. Especially when wind. Each
receives a free swiss army knife.
The first few tongues are clearly
preparatory. The impression
made by yours I carry to my grave. It is
just so sad so creepy so beautiful.
Bless it. We have so little time
to learn, so much... The river
courses dirty and deep. Cover the lettuce.
Call it a night. O soul. Flow on. Instead.
– C. D. Wright [19] X Research source -
Purple as tulips in May, mauve
into lush velvet, purple
as the stain blackberries leave
on the lips, on the hands,
the purple of ripe grapes
sunlit and warm as flesh.
Every day I will give you a color,
like a new flower in a bud vase
on your desk. Every day
I will paint you, as women
color each other with henna
on hands and on feet.
Red as henna, as cinnamon,
as coals after the fire is banked,
the cardinal in the feeder,
the roses tumbling on the arbor
their weight bending the wood
the red of the syrup I make from petals.
Orange as the perfumed fruit
hanging their globes on the glossy tree,
orange as pumpkins in the field,
orange as butterflyweed and the monarchs
who come to eat it, orange as my
cat running lithe through the high grass.
Yellow as a goat’s wise and wicked eyes,
yellow as a hill of daffodils,
yellow as dandelions by the highway,
yellow as butter and egg yolks,
yellow as a school bus stopping you,
yellow as a slicker in a downpour.
Here is my bouquet, here is a sing
song of all the things you make
me think of, here is oblique
praise for the height and depth
of you and the width too.
Here is my box of new crayons at your feet.
Green as mint jelly, green
as a frog on a lily pad twanging,
the green of cos lettuce upright
about to bolt into opulent towers,
green as Grand Chartreuse in a clear
glass, green as wine bottles.
Blue as cornflowers, delphiniums,
bachelors’ buttons. Blue as Roquefort,
blue as Saga. Blue as still water.
Blue as the eyes of a Siamese cat.
Blue as shadows on new snow, as a spring
azure sipping from a puddle on the blacktop.
Cobalt as the midnight sky
when day has gone without a trace
and we lie in each other’s arms
eyes shut and fingers open
and all the colors of the world
pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
– Marge Piercy [20] X Research source -
4I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire
I love you as one loves certain obscure things
secretly, between the shadow and the soul
I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom but carries
the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself
and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose
from the earth lives dimly in my body
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where
I love you directly without problems or pride
I love you like this because I don't know any other way
to love
except in this form in which I am not nor are you
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine
so close that your eyes close with my dreams.
– Pablo Neruda [21] X Research source -
5Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishes–do you recall? And we
did make so many! For there were countless numbers
of stars: each time we looked above we were
astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall.
– Rainer Maria Rilke [22] X Research source -
When the one whose hand you’re holding
Is the one one who holds your heart
When the one whose eyes you gaze into
Gives your hopes and dreams their start,
When the one you think of first and last
Is the one who holds you tight,
And the things you plan together
Make the whole world seem just right,
When the one whom you believe in
Puts their faith and trust in you,
You’ve found the one and only love
You’ll share your whole life through.
– Author Unknown [23] X Research source -
7Dear love, what thing of all the things that be
Is ever worth one thought from you or me,
Save only Love,
Save only Love?
The days so short, the nights so quick to flee,
The world so wide, so deep and dark the sea,
So dark the sea;
So far the suns and every listless star,
Beyond their light—Ah! dear, who knows how far,
Who knows how far?
One thing of all dim things I know is true,
The heart within me knows, and tells it you,
And tells it you.
So blind is life, so long at last is sleep,
And none but Love to bid us laugh or weep,
And none but Love,
And none but Love.
– Willa Cather [24] X Research source -
8Shall 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 dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest 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.
– William Shakespeare [25] X Research source -
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.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning [26] X Research source
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The miles are long and far and wide,
But my love for you will never subside.
My heart will continue strong and true,
Steadfast in my love for you.
You never need to fret or fear;
My only love is for you, my dear.
It hurts to be so far from you,
But a love like ours will make it through.
Keep holding on a little longer;
Our love will keep on growing stronger.
– Amy Finley [27] X Research source -
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Two shall be born the whole world wide apart,
And speak in different tongues, and pay their debts
In different kinds of coin; and give no heed
Each to the other’s being. And know not
That each might suit the other to a T,
If they were but correctly introduced.
And these, unconsciously, shall bend their steps,
Escaping Spaniards and defying war,
Unerringly toward the same trysting-place,
Albeit they know it not. Until at last
They enter the same door, and suddenly
They meet. And ere they’ve seen each other’s face
They fall into each other’s arms, upon
The Broadway cable car – and this is Fate!
– Carolyn Wells [29] X Research source -
4Our love grows like vines between us.
They gently bind us together.
But when one of us has to travel far,
Those vines do not wither and break.
They grow longer and stronger,
More lovely and vibrant,
Until they burst into bloom when we reunite.
– Kelly Roper [30] X Research source -
5Centimeters were needles
And meters were knives
Are you coming home?
Can you ever be mine?
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Your words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool,
Rippling around my breast and leaving it melting cool.
Your kisses fell sharp on my flesh like dawn-dews from the limb
Of a fruit-filled lemon tree when the day is young and dim.
Like soft rain-christened sunshine, as fragile as rare gold lace,
Your breath, sweet-scented and warm, has kindled my tranquil face.
But a silence vasty-deep, oh deeper than all these ties
Now, through the menacing miles, brooding between us lies.
And more than the songs I sing, I await your written word,
To stir my fluent blood as never your presence stirred.
– Claude McKay [31] X Research source -
7To find a kiss of yours
what would I give
A kiss that strayed from your lips
dead to love
My lips taste
the dirt of shadows
To gaze at your dark eyes
what would I give
Dawns of rainbow garnet
fanning open before God—
The stars blinded them
one morning in May
And to kiss your pure thighs
what would I give
Raw rose crystal
sediment of the sun
– Federico García Lorca [32] X Research source -
8I looked and saw a sea
roofed over with rainbows,
In the midst of each
two lovers met and departed;
Then the sky was full of faces
with gold glories behind them.
– Ezra Pound [33] X Research source -
For the first time ever,I want to rush the summer along...it'll close the gapbetween the times I get to see you.It will bring us closer to spendingnine unadulterated months together.And sure, we'll have classes to deal with,and roommates to navigate,but we'll have each other.Not a day will passthat we don't see each other.The hours we are in classwill seem like mere secondscompared to the long weeks we've spent apartso far this year.And yet the cycle will start again.Having spent so many days together,the weeks apart in the summer will drag on.No longer do I pine for lazy summer days.I only pine for you. – Author Unknown
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Love Poems About Unconditional Love for Your Boyfriend
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Through thick and thin, hand in hand we stand,
Facing the trials that life has planned.
In shadows of doubt, or bright skies above,
Together we conquer, united in love.
When storms come a-knocking, and doubts start to rise,
I’ll hold you close, look deep in your eyes.
Through every struggle, our bond will not break,
In this journey of life, it’s love that we make.
– Author Unknown [34] X Research source -
2I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;
I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold;
I cannot promise you an easy pathway
That leads away from change or growing old.
But I can promise all my heart’s devotion;
A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow;
A love that’s ever true and ever growing;
A hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow.
– Mark Twain [35] X Research source -
I’d watch the movie you made in your dorm roomUntil the credits roll againI’d laugh at all your retold stories as if I’d never heard themI’d risk sounding so pathetic when I sayYou’re my best friendI’d love you for the rest of our livesThen do it all over again– Author Unknown
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4If you need me
I will always be there
Even if you don’t want me to
I will still care
I will always love you
Even if your love runs out
Because that’s what unconditional love is
Having someone you can’t live without.
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5If by truth you mean hand then yes
I hold to be self-evident and hold you in the highest—
KO to my OT and bait to my switch, I crown
you one-trick pony to my one-horse town,
dub you my one-stop shopping, my space heater,
juke joint, tourist trap, my peep show, my meter reader,
you best batteries-not-included baring all or
nothing. Let me begin by saying if he hollers ,
end with goes the weasel . In between,
cream filling. Get over it, meaning, the moon.
Tell me you’ll dismember this night forever,
you my punch-drunking bag, tar to my feather.
More than the sum of our private parts, we are some
peekaboo, some peak and valley, some
bright equation (if and then but , if er then uh ).
My fruit bat, my gewgaw. You had me at no duh .
– Dora Malech [36] X Research source -
This man, my love, my rock, my guide,He holds me close, right by his side,His love for me is unconditional,A bond so strong, unbreakable.In his arms, I find solace,His touch, his embrace, pure bliss. – Author Unknown
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7Let 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 [37] X Research source -
8I loved you in the tree house, your words close to my mouth.
I loved you in the front seat when you told me you love me
I loved you up on Canyon Crest, we went when we got restless
I loved you when your eyes shone, I love you now that we’re grown.
I love the way you tense up and relax with my hand.
I love never getting tired of you, I just don’t think I can
I love that this love song is undyingly true,
Darling, I will always
Always
Love you
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I know you said you never want a love poem but that's exactly what I'm gonna writebecause im sitting here all alone with nothing on my mind but you tonight.I keep remembering your smile and how could i forget your eyes.Before we were just friends living lives of lies,but now that were together i never want to share good byes.You showed me who i am and who i can be,you took my bottled up emotion and you set it free.You wipe the tears from my eyes when my hearts soreand i know you say you love me but i love you more.The memories we share can never be taken forever they'll be there.The ones that make you smile and the ones that make you cry,the ones that make you laugh and the ones that make you sigh.When i started this poem my eyes were bright and clearbut now that its coming to an end i think i found a tear.So before i let you goi just thought id tell you that my love for you is unconditional, just thought id let you know.– Author Unknown
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