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Why Poems Can Be More Meaningful Than Gifts
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While gifts are delightful, they often fail to fully convey the depth of emotions we feel for someone. A Valentine\u2019s Day poem offers a personal touch that is hard to replicate with material items. Poems allow for an intimate expression of love and affection that speaks directly to the heart. They become treasured keepsakes that remind the receiver of how much they are loved. A poem, whether it\u2019s from a famous poet or your own heart, shows thoughtfulness, effort, and sincerity; elements that gifts sometimes lack. It\u2019s a way of saying, \u201cI love you,\u201d in a unique, unforgettable way.<\/p>\n
Heartfelt Valentine\u2019s Day Poems <\/h2>\n1. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
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<\/p>\n Shall I compare thee to a summer\u2019s day?<\/p>\n Thou art more lovely and more temperate:\n<\/p>\n Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,\n<\/p>\n And summer\u2019s lease hath all too short a date:\n<\/p>\n Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,\n<\/p>\n And often is his gold complexion dimmed;\n<\/p>\n And every fair from fair sometime declines,\n<\/p>\n By chance or nature\u2019s changing course untrimmed;\n<\/p>\n But thy eternal summer shall not fade\n<\/p>\n Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;\n<\/p>\n Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,\n<\/p>\n When in eternal lines to time thou growest;\n<\/p>\n So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,<\/p>\n So long lives my love, and this gives life to thee.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.\n<\/p>\n I love thee to the depth and breadth and height\n<\/p>\n My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight\n<\/p>\n For the ends of being and ideal grace.\n<\/p>\n I love thee to the level of every day\u2019s\n<\/p>\n Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.\n<\/p>\n I love thee freely, as men strive for right;\n<\/p>\n I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.\n<\/p>\n I love thee with the passion put to use\n<\/p>\n In my old griefs, and with my childhood\u2019s faith.\n<\/p>\n I love thee with a love I seemed to lose\n<\/p>\n With my lost saints, \u2014 I love thee with the breath,\n<\/p>\n Smiles, tears, of all my life! \u2014 and, if God choose,\n<\/p>\n I shall but love thee better after death.\n<\/p>\n For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes\n<\/p>\n Brightly expressive as the stars of Even,\n<\/p>\n The gazer\u2019s hope and the gazer\u2019s prize.\n<\/p>\n To have the light of love upon her brow\n<\/p>\n Beams ever from the calm, still depths of her\n<\/p>\n As if the heart, and not the soul, were here,\n<\/p>\n A flood of light, no other so divine,\n<\/p>\n To warm, to lift, to charm, in this calm hour,\n<\/p>\n The purest feelings known to mortal souls.\n<\/p>\n The fountains mingle with the river,\n<\/p>\n And the rivers with the ocean;\n<\/p>\n The winds of Heaven mix forever\n<\/p>\n With a sweet emotion;\n<\/p>\n Nothing in the world is single,\n<\/p>\n All things by a law divine\n<\/p>\n In one spirit meet and mingle.\n<\/p>\n Why not I with thine?\n<\/p>\n See the mountains kiss high heaven,\n<\/p>\n And the waves clasp one another;\n<\/p>\n No sister-flower would be forgiven\n<\/p>\n If it disdained its brother;\n<\/p>\n And the sunlight clasps the earth,\n<\/p>\n And the moonbeams kiss the sea:\n<\/p>\n What is all this sweet work worth,\n<\/p>\n If thou kiss not me?\n<\/p>\n I carry your heart with me (I carry it in\n<\/p>\n my heart) I am never without it.\n<\/p>\n Anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done\n<\/p>\n by only me is your doing, my darling.\n<\/p>\n I fear I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)\n<\/p>\n And it\u2019s you are whatever a moon has always meant\n<\/p>\n And whatever a sun will always sing is you.\n<\/p>\n Here is the deepest secret nobody knows\n<\/p>\n (Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud<\/p>\n And the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows And this is the wonder that\u2019s keeping the stars apart. When you are old and grey and full of sleep,\n<\/p>\n And nodding by the fire, take down this book,\n<\/p>\n And slowly read, and dream of the soft look\n<\/p>\n Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;\n<\/p>\n How many loved your moments of glad grace,\n<\/p>\n And loved your beauty with love false or true,\n<\/p>\n But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,\n<\/p>\n And loved the sorrows of your changing face;\n<\/p>\n And bending down beside the glowing bars,\n<\/p>\n Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled\n<\/p>\n And paced upon the mountains overhead\n<\/p>\n And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.\n<\/p>\n I shall not ask if you are glad,\n<\/p>\n But if you know what joy it is\n<\/p>\n To kiss the lips I have kissed.\n<\/p>\n Let no one know or understand\n<\/p>\n That I am happy, just because\n<\/p>\n I kissed the lips that kissed my hand.\n<\/p>\n Love is enough: though the world be a-waning,<\/p>\n And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,<\/p>\n Though the sky be too dark for doves to fly through,<\/p>\n And the mountains are melting with rain;\n<\/p>\n Yet if you love me, I shall love you.\n<\/p>\n Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,\n<\/p>\n And sorry I could not travel both\n<\/p>\n And be one traveler, long I stood\n<\/p>\n And looked down one as far as I could\n<\/p>\n To where it bent in the undergrowth;\n<\/p>\n Then took the other, as just as fair,\n<\/p>\n And having perhaps the better claim,\n<\/p>\n Because it was grassy and wanted wear;\n<\/p>\n Though as for that the passing there\n<\/p>\n Had worn them really about the same,\n<\/p>\n And both that morning equally lay\n<\/p>\n In leaves no step had trodden black.\n<\/p>\n Oh, I kept the first for another day!\n<\/p>\n Yet knowing how way leads on to way,\n<\/p>\n I doubted if I should ever come back.\n<\/p>\n O my Luve\u2019s like a red, red rose, O my Luve\u2019s like the melody, As fair thou art, my bonnie lass, And I will love thee still, my dear, Till a\u2019 the seas gang dry, my dear, I will love thee still, my dear, A handwritten poem adds a personal touch and shows that you\u2019ve put in time and effort. You can present it in a beautiful, romantic Valentine greeting card<\/a>, enhancing its sentimental value.\n<\/p>\n2. How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
\n<\/h3>\n3. A Valentine by Edgar Allan Poe
\n<\/h3>\n4. Love\u2019s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/h3>\n
5. I Carry Your Heart With Me by E.E. Cummings<\/h3>\n
\nno fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)<\/p>\n
\nHigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)<\/p>\n
\nI carry your heart (I carry it in my heart.)<\/p>\n6. When You Are Old by W.B. Yeats
\n<\/h3>\n7. The Kiss by Sara Teasdale
\n<\/h3>\n8. Love Is Enough by William Morris
\n<\/h3>\n9. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
\n<\/h3>\n10. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
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\nThat\u2019s newly sprung in June;<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s sweetly played in tune.<\/p>\n
\nSo deep in love am I;<\/p>\n
\nTill a\u2019 the seas gang dry.<\/p>\n
\nAnd the rocks melt wi\u2019 the sun:<\/p>\n
\nWhile the sands o\u2019 life shall run.<\/p>\nTips for Presenting Poems Alongside Gifts
\n<\/h2>\n1. Write It by Hand
\n<\/h3>\n2. Pair It with Your Valentine\u2019s Day Gifts Online
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