30 Romantic And Short Poems To Make Her Fall In Love

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If your girl loves poetry and has a way with words, there is no better way to win her over than sending her beautiful poems. Here, we have combined several poems to make her fall in love with you.

Poems are expressive and take people into a magical world. They showcase romantic feelings and create deeper emotional connections, capturing love and longing in a way that deeply resonates with the heart. Research says writing poetry can help promote psychological well-being and have a positive influence on emotions and relationships (1). Good rhymes or verses can evoke many emotions inside a woman, and when she falls in love with the poem you send her, you will also have a place in her heart. So keep scrolling, and pick a poem for your crush, girlfriend, wife, or anyone.

30 Poems To Make Her Fall In Love

If you are thinking about how to woo the woman you love, here are some beautiful poems with charming lyrics that will make her swoon and fall in love with you. These are the perfect poems to make her feel special and cherished.

Long Poems

You may dedicate these words of romance to declare your love and win her heart.

1. My True Love

Filled with the strong emotions of discovering true love, the poem describes the warmth and comfort felt in the company of your beloved. It is a declaration of love emerging from deep passion and longing.

Every single day
I have been fighting this feeling
That I can’t explain
I wouldn’t want to rush things
But I see you more than a friend
You are my true love
I can’t ignore the thoughts I have
My heart is burning with ardor
The feeling is growing strong
When I spend time with you
I feel relaxed and comfortable
When I wake up
When I go to sleep
When I am alone
I am filled with your thoughts
This is true love I feel for you
My heart is filled with passion
I want to spend my life with you
You are my true love

Anonymous

Quick tip

If your lovely lady has a favorite poet, then you can pick a poem from that poet’s collection to write to her.

2. A Beautiful Sight

Love stories do see difficult times and it is hope that makes the process of healing possible. This poem is about never losing hope and always protecting the one you love.

A Beautiful sight, I’ve seen it once.
In a lonely white room
with a bed and a small chair,
table on three feet in a corner holding a bouquet
fortifying the air with the scent of roses
window, a small, round window
in the middle of the pale wall,
exposing messages from up above
in a form of snowflakes, falling so slowly,
a white dove sat on the ledge.
A man was fighting for his life
machine pumping air into his lungs
in a constant steady motion.
A beautiful sight
Angel wings spread across the bed
hovering over the mans body, healing it,
feeding his soul
with heavenly aroma,
the smiling Angel kissed his forehead
and told me it will be back tomorrow.

Kasia Fedyk

3. Life In A Love

This classic poem highlights the challenges faced in love and calls it a relentless pursuit filled with hope. It also delves into the pain suffered in unrequited affection and the undying spirit of a lover.

Escape me?
Never—
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth,
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again,—
So the chase takes up one’s life, that’s all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me—
Ever
Removed!

Robert Browning

4. A Dream Girl

This poem paints a vivid image of love and longing. The poem says that an ideal love may or may not come leaving the reader bittersweet sense of hope and fleeting beauty.

You will come one day in a waver of love,
Tender as dew, impetuous as rain,
The tan of the sun will be on your skin,
The purr of the breeze in your murmuring speech,
You will pose with a hill-flower grace.
You will come, with your slim, expressive arms,
A poise of the head no sculptor has caught
And nuances spoken with shoulder and neck,
Your face in pass-and-repass of moods
As many as skies in delicate change
Of cloud and blue and flimmering sun.
Yet,
You may not come, O girl of a dream,
We may but pass as the world goes by
And take from a look of eyes into eyes,
A film of hope and a memoried day.

Carl Sandburg

5. Time’s Knife

Rumi’s timeless words capture the spiritual essence of love. The poem talks about transcending physical union to reach a divine connection. It highlights the power that love possesses can dissolve ego and illuminate the soul.

Time’s knife slides from the sheath, as a fish from where it swims.
Being closer and closer is the desire of the body.
Don’t wish for union.
There’s a closeness beyond that.
Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.
Love is the soul’s light, the taste of morning.
No me, no we, no claim of being.
These words are the smoke the fire gives off as it absolves its defects.
As eyes in silence, tears face.
Love cannot be said.

Rumi

6. How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

This classic sonnet is an open declaration of love. It explores the depth, purity, and eternal nature of love through lyrical and heartfelt expressions.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

7. Love Is More Thicker Than Forget

Known for the whimsical language, this poem captures the complexities of love. It celebrates love’s ability to transcend logic, highlighting its profound and enduring nature.

Love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea
love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive
it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky

E.E. Cummings

Quick tip

If you are a little creative, you can create a tune or use an existing one and try signing one of these romantic poems to your lady love.

8. When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face

The poem delves deeper into the overpowering beauty of love and its blinding intensity. It talks about the struggle to balance admiration with the need to remain grounded.

When I too long have looked upon your face,
Wherein for me a brightness unobscured
Save by the mists of brightness has its place,
And terrible beauty not to be endured,
I turn away reluctant from your light,
And stand irresolute, a mind undone,
A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sight
From having looked too long upon the sun.
Then is my daily life a narrow room
In which a little while, uncertainly,
Surrounded by impenetrable gloom,
Among familiar things grown strange to me
Making my way, I pause, and feel, and hark,
Till I become accustomed to the dark.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

9. Shelter Of Love

The poem calls love a source of warmth and solace. It compares a beloved to a protective shelter emphasizing the strength that love provides during challenging times.

You are a shelter of love
I need to shelter under your love
When I am cold, I need your warmth
I long for the shelter of your love.
It’s been cold and empty out here
This season I don’t need a blanket
To keep me warm
You are a shelter of love
This passionate love has kept me strong
It’s my hope and you are my dream
I can’t be tired waiting for you
To keep me warm

Anonymous

10. You And I

This poem is a heartfelt pledge of commitment and unity. It celebrates love that endures all challenges and sustains through tough times.

You and I were meant to be
I’d give you anything just to be yours
It’s been a long time since I saw you
Now that you are here
I will not leave you
There is something about you and I
That brings us together
No matter the situation
We will always find ourselves together
This time round
Let’s make things different
I pledge to let nothing come between us
Let our love shine!

Anonymous

11. Poem For My Love

This poem is all about the love shared in peaceful moments. It talks about how love feels like a divine energy.

How do we come to be here next to each other
in the night
Where are the stars that show us to our love
inevitable
Outside the leaves flame usual in darkness
and the rain
falls cool and blessed on the holy flesh
the black men waiting on the corner for
a womanly mirage
I am amazed by peace
It is this possibility of you
asleep
and breathing in the quiet air

June Jordan, poetryfoundation.org/

12. I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love

The poem is about finding balance and unity in love. In a relationship, one partner’s love may surpass the love of the other, but ultimately, love is not about competition—it’s about two becoming one.

I loved you first: but afterwards your love
Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song
As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove.
Which owes the other most? my love was long,
And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong;
I loved and guessed at you, you construed me
And loved me for what might or might not be –
Nay, weights and measures do us both a wrong.
For verily love knows not ‘mine’ or ‘thine;’
With separate ‘I’ and ‘thou’ free love has done,
For one is both and both are one in love:
Rich love knows nought of ‘thine that is not mine;’
Both have the strength and both the length thereof,
Both of us, of the love which makes us one.

Christina Rossetti, poetryfoundation.org

13. I Love You

Acknowledging the fiery emotions felt in love, the poem is a passionate and sensual declaration of love. It explores the longing for a deep, uninhibited connection.

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.
I love your arms when the warm white flesh
Touches mine in a fond embrace;
I love your hair when the strands enmesh
Your kisses against my face.

Not for me the cold, calm kiss
Of a virgin’s bloodless love;
Not for me the saint’s white bliss,
Nor the heart of a spotless dove.
But give me the love that so freely gives
And laughs at the whole world’s blame,
With your body so young and warm in my arms,
It sets my poor heart aflame.

So kiss me sweet with your warm wet mouth,
Still fragrant with ruby wine,
And say with a fervor born of the South
That your body and soul are mine.
Clasp me close in your warm young arms,
While the pale stars shine above,
And we’ll live our whole young lives away
In the joys of a living love.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

14. [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

This unique poem talks about the importance of love in life. It describes love as a universal, eternal force that connects and uplifts.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
E.E Cummings, poetryfoundation.org

Short Poems

Though short, reciting these poems is guaranteed to grab her attention.

15. As Long As You Love Me

The poem is about commitment and dedication to love. It highlights the willingness of a lover to do anything for their beloved as long as they are loved.

Why I did it, I might not know.
But I just have to do it for love.
If loving you means doing the things I have done,
then I want to keep doing them
as long as you love me the way you do!

Anonymous

16. Arms Of Your Love

Here is a comforting poem about finding peace in the embrace of a loved one, especially during challenging times.

When trouble comes
and it seems everything is far away from me.
I know a safe place I could turn
and find peace of mind.
It is to the arms of your love and nothing else!

Anonymous

17. I Care About You

The poem appreciates a partner’s unwavering support and care. It talks about love and loyalty in return for their devotion.

When no one seems to care,
You showed me that you are more than caring.
When all deserted me,
you were there to show me
that you will always be there for me.
For you, I promise to stand by you
You are worth every single word of adulation
And at all times, I will prove my love for you.

Anonymous

18. Perfect Match

This poem shares the excitement and happiness felt when you find the perfect match. Someone who perfectly complements you and promises a lifetime of love and partnership.

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow is forever.
I shall look to the future with hope
for the entire journey I shall ever take;
I have found a perfect match that will go
with me and that is your undying love for me!

Anonymous

19. In Words And Deeds

This poem is a promise of dedication and devotion. It emphasizes that true love is shown through meaningful gestures.

In words and deeds will I ever eulogize
To express my love for you.
My actions shall forever show and affirm
how and what you mean to me.
To you would I give my all to be
in love with you today and always.

Anonymous

20. My Darling

Looking for a sweet poem? Here is one. This simple poem compares love to the moon and stars as the poet hopes to bring light and wonder into their partner’s life.

My darling
All I want
Is to be your moon
And show you
All the little stars of my heart.

Alexandra Vasiliu

21. I Would Love To Say

This poem is a funny take on the overwhelming effect love has on the poet, making them forget even their physical self.

I would love to say
that you
make me
weak in the knees,
but
to be quite upfront,
and completely
truthful,
you
make my body forget
it has knees
at all.

Tyler Knott Gregson

22. Riding Mountains

The poem compares love to a rollercoaster full of emotions with ups and downs. But eventually, it is something to be cherished with a beloved.

My love for you rides mountains,
So many ups and downs, emotions soar.

But one thing never changes,
My love for you, I cannot ignore.
There are days I feel this is too much,
And I don’t know what to do.

But let’s face it, who are we kidding,
I want nothing else but you!

Julie Hebert

23. I Will Love You

The poem talks about loving someone for their beautiful soul, emphasizing the deeper, intangible essence of true love.

I will love you,
Not starting with
Your skin or
Your organs or
Your bones:
I will love madly first,
Your naked soul.

Christopher Poindexter

24. Yours

Comparing love to nature’s beauty, the poem calls a partner’s love as an essential life-giving force.

I am yours as the summer air at evening is
Possessed by the scent of linden blossoms,

As the snowcap gleams with light
Lent it by the brimming moon.

Without you I’d be an unleafed tree
Blasted in a bleakness with no Spring.

Your love is the weather of my being.
What is an island without the sea?

Daniel Hoffman, poets.org/

25. The Minute I Heard My First Love Story

Another heartfelt composition by Rumi. The poem shares the idea that love exists within us all along, waiting for the right person to awaken it.

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.

Rumi

26. Love Comes Quietly

Reflecting on the quiet, inevitable arrival of love, the poem emphasizes the importance of a partner as one cannot walk through life alone.

Love comes quietly,
finally, drops
about me, on me,
in the old ways.

What did I know
thinking myself
able to go
alone all the way.

Robert Creeley, poets.org/

27. Love’s Philosophy

Here is a poem that highlights the power of love to unite everything. Just like everything in nature is interconnected, the poem asks why two people shouldn’t connect.

The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?

Percy Bysshe Shelley, poetryfoundation.org

28. A Drinking Song

This short poem compares love and wine to life’s simple truths. It emphasize the need to celebrate fleeting moments of passion and longing.

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.
William Butler Yeats, poetryfoundation.com

29. A White Rose

The poem compares the passion of a red rose with the purity of a white rose, presenting love as both tender and desirous.

The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
Oh, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.

But I send you a cream-white rose bud
With a flush on its petal tips;
For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

John Boyle O Reilly, allpoetry.com

30. You Bring Me Light

Celebrating the beloved as a source of joy and light, vowing eternal love through all challenges.

Your smile is like the sun,
Bringing light to every day,
I am blessed to be with you,
Forever and always,
Come what may.

Unknown

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How To Personalize Your Poems

Although there are many sources of inspiration for romantic poems, personalizing them can make them even more meaningful and impactful. Here are some tips to create a poem that will truly make your girl feel loved and valued.

• Consider her preferences: Not everyone understands the deep meaning of poems. If your girl appreciates poems, you can play with words and create an interesting rhyme scheme. However, if she is not someone who reads many poems, ensure the poem you send to her is simple and easy to understand. 
• Show thoughtfulness: Your poem may be simple or complex, whatever you choose to send her, it has to convey your innermost feelings effectively. It should clearly express your deep commitment to your relationship and your love for her.  
• Include shared memories: To make your poem memorable, add lines that mention special memories, private jokes, or experiences you both cherish. If you cannot compose a completely new poem, you can add these lines to any of the poems above by twisting the words a little. 
• Reference unique qualities: Highlighting the specific qualities you admire most about her can make her feel special. So, do not hesitate to flatter her by writing lines of admiration. However, do not go overboard. Two to three lines in a long poem should be enough to tell her how much you admire her.

How To Select The Right Poem For Her

Selecting the right poem that expresses your inner feelings is crucial for deepening your relationship. Here are some pointers to keep in mind when looking for poems to make her fall in love with you. 

• Your relationship stage: If you are in the initial stages of your relationship then opt for poems that capture the excitement and discovery of new love. For example, the short poem ‘Perfect Match’ can be a great choice to express your excitement about finding the right person for yourself. And if you have been together for a long time, you may choose to share a poem like ‘I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love’ by Christina Rossetti is a great way to celebrate your love.  
• Suitability of the occasion: If you are sending her a poem to celebrate a special occasion like her birthday or your anniversary as a couple, then opt for a poem that is deep and meaningful. For instance, ‘How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a good choice to bombard her with your love. Blogger Andrianna Pappas shares her love and deep appreciation for this poem. She says, “After reading the poem “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning I have reflected on how it made me feel as well as think. The poem is a timeless masterpiece that shines light on the true essence of love, evoking different emotions and feelings from within. As I read deeper into Browning’s verses, I develop a sense of warmth, as though being welcomed by the nature of love itself…When Browning says, “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height”, It encourages me to love people as much as you can give (i). So, do consider this poem for your lady love. And if it is a regular day and you just want her to know how much you love her, choosing a poem like ‘Riding Mountains’ by Julie Hebert can be a good choice. 
• Her personality and interests: If she is a hardcore romantic and loves mushy meaningful poems, then you may select any of the long poems that are full of love and emotions. But if she prefers sweet and happy love poems, opt for the shorter poems, which are meaningful but not too emotional. 
• Follow your instinct: In the end, remember to just follow your instinct. It is fine to choose a poem that expresses your innermost feelings for her in the best way possible. Do not hesitate to shower your love whenever you feel like doing it.

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