Short Romantic Love Poems

I do not know you well, but what I know

Enchants me, like a song sung far away.

I cannot hear the words, but what they say

Hangs softly on the hills where I must go.

I see you furtively and note your eyes,

Hazel and dreamy, your spirit half elsewhere;

I note the sheen of your dark, lustrous hair

And wish I knew your thoughts and shared your cries.

This love brings me sweet pain, but I want more,

Driven by a dream I can't control.

I want the truth of you, untamed and whole;

In frantic hope I haunt your open door.

Beautiful eyes, beautiful face,

I'm shy to talk to you.

You're the eagle I must watch

No matter what I do.

You're the beauty, wild and free,

The mistress of my eyes,

Rolling through exultant air,

Alone in pristine skies.

I would take you for my own

Could I but have your wings,

Could I but go where night begins

And frozen sunlight sings.

Could I but have you for my love,

How might we fly together!

But I must watch you from below

And long for you forever.

But I must be the one below

And long for you forever.

I know I hardly know you,

But I think that I may love you.

You can see the way I look at you

And know.

I know you have a girlfriend,

But I think we can be happy,

So take the time to find out

If it's so.

I know we don't have much time,

But I think it's just enough;

If you'd like to take a chance on me,

Let's go!

When you said, "I love you,"

I went over the moon.

My heart sang its glory,

The stars sang in tune.

As when with a word

God brought forth light,

So with these words

You ended my night.

So with these words

You made something new:

A bond of devotion

Between me and you.

How powerful words

To shape who we are!

We ponder in silence;

Our words cross a bar.

Your words crossed a threshold

And entered the past,

Yet they have created

A world that will last.

First love is like playing with fire:

Aglow with pain and glory.

Tell me, my dear first love,

Whether I'm burned into your heart.

The fire in your body,

The glory of your touch:

Ah! my dear first love,

Never, never leave my heart!

Although the fire is distant,

The pain is always near.

My dear first love, please listen:

I hold you in my heart.

Do not doubt I love you, even though

My actions may have undermined my words.

We could be as connubial as birds

Had I not let my wild longings show.

I cannot help wanting to devour

All the world that comes before my eyes;

But more than all the world is that which lies

Within the precious circle of our bower.

I'll do anything to keep you with me;

Our love will last as long as you have will.

Despite my untamed need, my love is still

A rock against the surges of the sea.

I love you with all I am

And all I'll ever be.

You are my moon, my sun and stars,

My earth, my sky, my sea.

My love for you goes down and down

Beneath both life and death,

So deep it must remain when I

Have drawn my last faint breath.

Holding you for months and years

Will make Time disappear,

Will make your lips my lips, your face

My face, your tear my tear;

Will make us one strange personage

All intertwined in bliss,

Not man or woman, live or dead--