Love Poems

Three Love Poems

Love, with its profound depth and universal significance, has long been a central muse for artists across various mediums. Throughout history, painters, sculptors, musicians, and especially poets have sought to capture the essence of love in their works, creating timeless masterpieces that resonate across generations.

In poetry, love takes on a transcendent quality, transforming into eternal and universal poetic imagery that speaks to the deepest recesses of the human soul.

In this collection, we delve into three enchanting love poems penned by renowned poets William Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Immerse yourself in their verses and embark on a journey through the complexities and beauty of love.

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

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 its 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 by Khalil Gibran

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 by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Comprehension:

Based on your reading, say whether these statements are true or false:

1. According to William Shakespeare‘s sonnet, love changes when it encounters alterations. (…)
2. Khalil Gibran’s poem suggests that love should create a strong bond between souls. (…)
3. According to Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, everything in the world mingles with each other except human beings. (…)
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem implies that the speaker feels lonely and disconnected from his love. (…)