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Greatest Love Poems

A Collection of the Best Love Poems Ever Written

Greatest Love Poems

  • Greatest Love Poems
  • Poets
    • Carl Sandburg
    • Christina Rossetti
    • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    • Dorothy Parker
    • Edna St. Vincent Millay
    • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    • Lord Byron
    • Pablo Neruda
    • Robert Browning
    • Robert Burns
    • WB Yeats
    • William Ernest Henley
    • William Shakespeare
  • Greatest Love Poems
  • Poets
    • Carl Sandburg
    • Christina Rossetti
    • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    • Dorothy Parker
    • Edna St. Vincent Millay
    • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    • Lord Byron
    • Pablo Neruda
    • Robert Browning
    • Robert Burns
    • WB Yeats
    • William Ernest Henley
    • William Shakespeare

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sweet Love, Sweet Thorn, When Lightly To My Heart

Sweet Love, Sweet Thorn, When Lightly To My Heart

Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart
I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain,
And lie disheveled in the grass apart.

Favorites

  • A Man Young And Old: First Love
    WB Yeats
    A Man Young And Old: First Love
  • Sonnet - To Genevra
    Lord Byron
    Sonnet – to Genevra
  • Anna, Thy Charms
    Robert Burns
    Anna, thy Charms
  • Dedication To My Wife
    William Ernest Henley
    Dedication To My Wife
  • Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song
    Dorothy Parker
    Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song

Poets

  • Alfred Tennyson
  • Carl Sandburg
  • Christina Rossetti
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Dorothy Parker
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Edmund Spenser
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Lord Byron
  • Pablo Neruda
  • Robert Browning
  • Robert Burns
  • Sara Teasdale
  • Uncategorized
  • WB Yeats
  • William Blake
  • William Ernest Henley
  • William Shakespeare
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