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For the convenience of our customers, we have compiled an anthology of romantic poetry for the Valentine's Day. The collection is listed below on this page, and is seamlessly integrated within the checkout process. While checking out, our customers may choose to include verses from this selection in the gift card. For poetry attribution protocol, kindly refer to the Gift Services page.

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Note: While we have tried to capture poetry from various languages and cultures, the collection below is by no means comprehensive or representative of the diversity of our planet.

A thousand strands
of glistening deep black hair
in tangles, tangles, all intertangled
like my dreams of you.
- Yosano Akiko (Original Poetry in Japanese)

There is a gentle thought that often springs
to life in me, because it speaks of you.
Its reasoning about love's so sweet and true,
the heart is conquered, and accepts these things
this is love's messenger and newly sent
to bring me all Love's words and desires.
- Dante Alighieri (Original Poetry in Italian)

In that book which is
My memory . . .
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words . . .
Here begins a new life
- Dante Alighieri (Original Poetry in Italian)

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
- Maya Angelou

Let us bind ourselves forever for passionless journeyings,
Let us swear to meet again far in the Milky Way.
- Li Bai (Original Poetry in Chinese)

We sang to the tune of the wind in the pines;
And we finished our songs as the stars went down,
When, I being drunk and my friend more than happy,
Between us we forgot the world.
- Li Bai (Original Poetry in Chinese)

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
- Lord Byron

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven,
A spark of that immortal fire,
With angels shar'd, by Allah given
To lift from earth our low desire.
- Lord Byron

There are two Hearts whose movements thrill,
In unison so closely sweet,
That Pulse to Pulse responsive still
They Both must heave, or cease to beat.
- Lord Byron

There are two Souls, whose equal flow
In gentle stream so calmly run,
That when they part---they part?---ah no!
They cannot part---those Souls are One.
- Lord Byron

Yes! 'tis a glorious thought to me,
Nor longer shall my soul repine,
Whate'er thou art or e'er shalt be,
Thou hast been dearly, solely mine.
- Lord Byron

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
- Lord Byron

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning

And in Life's noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee ,
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot that made me love you.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Now is come the month of Roses!
To the woods my verse has flown
Gathering fragrance and honey
From the blossoms newly blown
All is perfume song and radiance;
Flowers open and birds sing:
O Beloved, this the season
Of the Spring!
- Ruben Dario (Original Poetry in Spanish)

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
- John Donne

A golden bird was singing
Its melody divine,
I found you and I loved you,
And all the world was mine.
- Paul Laurence Dunbar

To be in love with love is to gain a soul,
to sit on the throne of hearts.
They say one who is received by a heart
becomes more beautiful.
-Yunus Emre (Original Poetry in Turkish)

Last night, your lost memories crept into my heart
as spring arrives secretly into a barren garden
as a cool morning breeze blows slowly in a desert
as a sick person feels well, for no reason.
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Original Poetry in Urdu)

Accept, dear girl, this little token,
And if between the lines you seek,
You'll find the love I've often spoken
The love my dying lips shall speak.
- Eugene Field

So take, dear love, this little token,
And if there speaks in any line
The sentiment I'd fain have spoken,
Say, will you kiss your Valentine?
- Eugene Field

The description of paradise is sure pleasing,
But I pray to God to have your company there too.

- Asadullah Khan Ghalib (Original Poetry in Urdu)

What spectacle that you are looking into the mirror so intently!
Imagine with what longing I look at you?
- Asadullah Khan Ghalib (Original Poetry in Urdu)

Among the beautiful clouds,
Over the heavenly river,
Crosses the weaving maiden.
A night of rendezvous,
Across the autumn sky,
Surpasses joy on earth.
Moments of tender love and dream,
So sad to leave the magpie bridge.
Eternal love between us two,
Shall withstand the time apart.
- Qin Guan (Original Poetry in Chinese)

And now through pine-trees come the moon and the chill of evening,
Birds have settled on their perches in the quiet mist....
And still -- because you promised -- I am waiting for you, waiting,
Playing lute under a wayside vine.
- Meng Haoran (Original Poetry in Chinese)

Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be;
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee.
- Robert Herrick

A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
A heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst find,
That heart I'll give to thee.
- Robert Herrick

Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me:
And hast command of every part
To live and die for thee.
- Robert Herrick

I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sleep without dreams
Were it not for your songs.
- Langston Hughes

Then God smiled,
And the light broke,
And God smiled again,
And the rainbow appeared.
- James Weldon Johnson

And sure in language strange she said,
I love thee true!'
- John Keats

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
- Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (Original in French)

Eternity breaks through time,
past and present intermingle in her image.
In the inner shadows I lose myself,
drowning in the sea-depths of timeless love.
- Giacomo Leopardi (Original Poetry in Italian)

Did we not pledge eternal love,
Wringing the tears from our sleeves,
Swearing our love would never change,
Like the waves that never break on Matsuyama?
- Kiyohara no Motosuke (Original Poetry in Japanese)

You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,
Your sweetness in the nightingale, your whiteness in the swan.
You haunt my waking like a dream, my slumber like a moon,
Pervade me like a musky scent, possess me like a tune
You are the heart within my heart, the life within my life.
- Sarojini Naidu

From groves of spice,
O'er fields of rice,
Athwart the lotus-stream,
I bring for you,
Aglint with dew,
A little lovely dream.
- Sarojini Naidu

Like the perfume in the petals of a rose,
Hides thy heart within my bosom, O my love!
Like a garland, like a jewel, like a dove
That hangs its nest in the asoka-tree.
Lie still, O love, until the morning sows
Her tents of gold on fields of ivory.
- Sarojini Naidu

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving
- Pablo Neruda (Original Poetry in Spanish)

in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.
- Pablo Neruda (Original Poetry in Spanish)

The moon turns its clockwork dream.
The biggest stars look at me with your eyes.
And as I love you, the pines in the wind
want to sing your name with their leaves of wire.
- Pablo Neruda (Original Poetry in Spanish)

In my sky at twilight you are a cloud
and your form and colour are the way I love them.
You are mine, mine, woman with sweet lips
and in your life my infinite dreams live.
- Pablo Neruda (Original Poetry in Spanish)

At the touch of Love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato (Original in Greek)

The wondrous moment of our meeting ...
I well remember you appear
Before me like a vision fleeting,
A beauty's angel pure and clear.
- Alexander Pushkin (Original Poetry in Russian)

In ecstasy the heart is beating,
Old joys for it anew revive;
Inspired and God-filled, it is greeting
The fire, and tears, and love alive.
- Alexander Pushkin (Original Poetry in Russian)

My darling, I have much to say
Where o precious one shall I begin?
All that is in you is princely
O you who makes of my words through their meaning
Cocoons of silk
These are my songs and this is me
This short book contains us.
- Nizar Qabbani (Original Poetry in Arabic)

What would the world have been if we had not been
If your eyes had not been, what would the world have been
-Nizar Qabbani (Original Poetry in Arabic)

You are the setting sun in a beautiful sunset,
a beautiful sunflower which opens at dawn.
- Carlos Alberto Amador Rodríguez (Original Poetry in Spanish)

Love is a delicate rose bud,
blooming from a cocoon into a beautiful butterfly.
- Carlos Alberto Amador Rodríguez (Original Poetry in Spanish)

Love is a flame intensely lit,
by the heart of the beloved,
loved by persistent passion.
And that is what I have felt,
for you my charming princess,
since the day I was captivated by your beauty.
- Carlos Alberto Amador Rodríguez (Original Poetry in Spanish)

The hours I spent with thee, dear heart,
Are as a string of pearls to me;
I count them over, every one apart,
My rosary, my rosary.
- Robert Cameron Rogers

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose bows are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
- Christina Rossetti

my beloved grows
right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be?
- Jelaluddin Rumi (Original Poetry in Farsi)

ah I better keep silence
I know this endless love
will surely arrive
for you and you and you.
- Jelaluddin Rumi (Original Poetry in Farsi)

Heart, I said, what a gift it has been,
to enter this circle of lovers.
- Jelaluddin Rumi (Original Poetry in Farsi)

Only you,
I choose among the entire world.
From the beginning to the end,
No one but you.
- Jelaluddin Rumi (Original Poetry in Farsi)

This love is so fine, this love that we have is so fine
The hours I spent with thee, dear heart,
Are as a string of pearls to me;
I count them over, every one apart,
My rosary, my rosary.
- Robert Cameron Rogers

This love is so fine, this love that we have is so fine, O God
So exquisite, so good, and so beautiful, O God!
- Jelaluddin Rumi (Original Poetry in Farsi)

No longer can I perch elsewhere,
I am the nightingale of your tree,
Hide not behind the veil, my love,
I long to have a glimpse of you.
- Bulleh Shah (Original Poetry in Punjabi)

It is you, none of me, my love!
It is you, none of me.
- Bulleh Shah (Original Poetry in Punjabi)

The sun has set, its flush only is left
I'll give my life for a glimpse of you
My fault, I came not when you bade
Your love has made me dance like mad
- Bulleh Shah (Original Poetry in Punjabi)

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate.
- William Shakespeare

I do love nothing in the world so well as you.
- William Shakespeare

For nothing this wide universe I call,
Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.
- William Shakespeare

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.
- William Shakespeare

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 one another's being mingle;
Why not I with thine?
- Percy B. Shelley

See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven,
If it disdained it's 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 B. Shelley

When I think of you,
Fireflies in the marsh rise,
Like the soul's jewels,
Lost to eternal longing,
Abandoning my body.
- Izumi Shikibu (Original Poetry in Japanese)

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
- Rabindranath Tagore (Original Poetry in Bengali)

I have made You the polar star of my existence,
Never again can I lose my way in the voyage of life.
- Rabindranath Tagore (Original Poetry in Bengali)

Love remains a secret even when spoken,
For only a lover truly knows that he is loved.
- Rabindranath Tagore (Original Poetry in Bengali)

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
- Alice Walker

Now here, now there, the roving Fancy flies,
Till some lov'd object strikes her wand'ring eyes,
Whose silken fetters all the senses bind,
And soft captivity involves the mind.
- Phillis Wheatley

I love your lips when they're wet with wine
And red with a wild desire;
I love your eyes when the lovelight lies
Lit with a passionate fire.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

O Nightingale! thou surely art
A creature of a "fiery heart":--
Thou sing'st as if the God of wine
Had helped thee to a Valentine;
Of serious faith, and inward glee;
That was the song , the song for me!
- William Wordsworth

With the earth and the sky and the water,
remade, like a casket of gold
For my dreams of your image that blossoms
a rose in the deeps of my heart.
- William Butler Yeats

In this house on a hill without walls,
The four winds touch our faces.
If they blow open your robe of gauze,
I'll try to hide my smile.
- Tzu Yeh (Original Poetry in Japanese)

Like boatmen whose rudder is lost,
Cast adrift in the Yura Straits,
So too am I adrift
And lost in love.
- Sone no Yoshitada (Original Poetry in Japanese)