Love poetry books comprise a major part of poetry. Being in love is the best inspiration for love poetry . The romantic relationship, candle light dinners, long sensual evenings are depicted in love poems . Falling in love gives us a feeling of freedom and loving our dear ones makes our lives complete.
Romantic poetry was a part of the Romantic Movement of European literature during the 18th-19th centuries. According to some the Romantic age of poetry was a reaction against the Industrial Revolution. Love poetry books list the top among the poetry books.
Early French love poetries described the behavior of ladies and their lovers. In other words these poems depicted the courtly love. Similarly early German literature also portrayed the courtly love in a very beautiful manner through the lyrical love poetries .
Love poetry books are written keeping in mind the readers of all age groups starting from teenagers to even septuagenarians. But the expression of love for the dear ones is different in each case. Love poetry is one of the most popular types of poetry and it provides great pleasure and enjoyment to its readers. The emotions of the poetry with the powerful theme of love touch the heart of the readers and often people visualize their real life situations through these love poems .
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Some of the famous love poems along with the poets are listed below:
- A Charm Invests a Face - by Emily Dickinson
- A Red Rose - by Robert Burns
- Annabel Lee - by Edgar Allan Poe
- Art thou pale for weariness - by Percy Bysche Shelley
- Beauty - by John Masefield
- Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art - by John Keats
- Come slowly - by Emily Dickinson
- Desire - by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Eros - by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Faithless Sally Brown - by Thomas Hood
- Great Lover - by Rupert Brooke
- Helas - by Oscar Wilde
- I Watched Thee - by Lord Byron
- Jane - by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci - by John Keats
- Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - by T S Eliot
- Lucys Song - by Charles Dickens
- My Last Duchess - by Robert Browning
- Nightingale - love poetry by John Milton
- Ozymandias - by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Remember - by Christina Rossetti
- Rosabelle - by Sir Walter Scott
Love poems can be found in writings of all ages by almost all poets and authors and the list is endless.