Short Rhyming Love Poems

Short Cute Love Poems

The word "short" means different things to different people. Some of these poems my seem long, but when it comes to poetry, are actually quite short!

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Upon Julia’s Clothes

Whenas in silks my Julia goes,

Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows

That liquefaction of her clothes.

Next, when I cast mine eyes and see

That brave vibration each way free,

O how that glittering taketh me!

Robert Herrick

Remember me when I am gone away,

Gone far away into the silent land;

When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.

Remember me when no more day by day

You tell me of our future that you planned;

Only remember me; you understand

It will be late to counsel then or pray.

Yet if you should forget me for a while

And afterwards remember, do not grieve:

For if the darkness and corruption leave

A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,

Better by far you should forget and smile

Than that you should remember and be sad.

Emma Lazarus

There is no magic when we meet,

We speak as other people do,

You work no miracle for me

Nor I for you.

You were the wind and I the sea-

There is no splendor any more,

I have grown listless as the pool

Beside the shore.

But tho’ the pool is safe from storm

And from the tide has found surcease

It grows more bitter than the sea,

For all its peace.

Elinor Wylie

My True Love Hath My Heart

My true love hath my heart, and I have his,

By just exchange, one for the other given.

I hold his dear, and min he cannot miss,

There never was a better bargain driven.

His heart in me keeps me and him in one,

My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides;

He loves my heartm, for once it was his own,

I cherish his, because in m it bides.

His heart his wound recived from my sight,

For as from me on him his hurt did light,

So still methought in me his hurt did smart.

Both equal hurt, in this change sought our bliss:

By true love hath my heart and I have his.

- from Arcadia (Book III)

Sir Philip Sidney

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