15 Exquisite Poems For Valentines Day Cards To Make Their Heart Flutter!

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Valentineโ€™s Day is the perfect occasion for us to express our deepest feelings towards those we love and hold dear. And whatโ€™s better than poetry? Thatโ€™s why, we curated this list of 15 handpicked poems for Valentines Day cards for you, because we thought, why not show your love through poems?

Each of these poems for Valentineโ€™s Day perfectly captures the essence of love and affection, and are perfect for adding some romance to your cards. All these poems are unique in their own way, but the one thing thatโ€™s common is the way they help you express your love for your special one.

So, are you ready to explore some of the most beautiful poems for Valentines Day cards that are sure to touch your partnerโ€™s heart?

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15 Beautiful Poems For Valentines Day Cards

Valentineโ€™s Day Poems For Him

Even though men may not typically always express their emotions, they do love feeling special. Dedicate any of these or all of these Valentineโ€™s Day poems for him to your special one and see how they smile from ear to ear.

1. I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I love your lips when theyโ€™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 virginโ€™s bloodless love;
Not for me the saintโ€™s white bliss,
Nor the heart of a spotless dove.
But give me the love that so freely gives
And laughs at the whole worldโ€™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 weโ€™ll live our whole young lives away
In the joys of a living love.

2. I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.

Oh plunge me deep in loveโ€”put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.

3. Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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 dayโ€™s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhoodโ€™s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,โ€”I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!โ€”and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

4. Come, And Be My Baby by Maya Angelou

The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast
And folks is smoking anything thatโ€™ll burn
Some people wrap their lives around a cocktail glass
And you sit wondering
where youโ€™re going to turn.
I got it.
Come. And be my baby.

Some prophets say the world is gonna end tomorrow
But others say weโ€™ve got a week or two
The paper is full of every kind of blooming horror
And you sit wondering
what youโ€™re gonna do.
I got it.
Come. And be my baby.

5. To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.

Thy love is such I can no way repay;
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love letโ€™s so persever,
That when we live no more, we may live ever.

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Valentineโ€™s Day Poems For Her

Women love it when their boyfriends and husbands do sweet and romantic things for them. So, why not dedicate these Valentineโ€™s Day poems for her to the special woman in your life?

6. Love Sonnet XI by Pablo Neruda

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

7. Evening Song by Sidney Lanier

Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands,
And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea;
How long they kiss in sight of all the lands,
Ah! longer, longer we.

Now, in the seaโ€™s red vintage melts the sun
As Egyptโ€™s pearl dissolved in rosy wine
And Cleopatra-night drinks all- โ€™tis done,
Love, lay thine hand in mine.

Come forth, sweet stars, and comfort heavenโ€™s heart,
Glimmer, ye waves, โ€™round else unlighted sands;
Oh night! divorce our sun and sky apart-
Never our lips, our hands.

8. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summerโ€™s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summerโ€™s lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or natureโ€™s changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owโ€™st,
Nor shall death brag thou wandโ€™rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou growโ€™st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

9. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

O my Luve is like a red, red rose
Thatโ€™s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
Thatโ€™s sweetly played in tune.

So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till aโ€™ the seas gang dry.

Till aโ€™ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wiโ€™ the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands oโ€™ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile.

10. Love Is More Thicker Than Forget by E. E Cummings

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.

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Funny Short Valentines Day Poems

Poems for Valentineโ€™s Day do not always have to be mushy and oh-so romantic, they can be funny too! If you and your partner love goofing around with each other, dedicate these funny short Valentines Day poems to each other, and make this day even funnier and special.

11. My Bigfoot Valentine

Youโ€™ve got big feet,
But gee, youโ€™re sweet,
So letโ€™s give it a whirl,
Say youโ€™ll be my girl.
โ€˜Cause Iโ€™m a goofy guy,
But I caught your eye,
So say youโ€™ll be mine,
My bigfoot Valentine.

12. My Funky Valentine

Youโ€™re my funky Valentine.
You always make me feel so fine.
My favourite love, my best, my friend,
And that is why I want to send,
A poem to thrill you to your socks,
A poem that sings, a poem that rocks.
A poem to spin you on your head,
(unless youโ€™d like a kiss instead!)
And if thatโ€™s not enough for you โ€“
Iโ€™ll up the score โ€“ and give you two!
(Or three or four or eight or nine)
for you, my funky Valentine.

13. Stuck On You

Youโ€™re sucrose, youโ€™re glucose,
Youโ€™re fructose and more,
From your head to your feetโ€ฆ
Which are stuck to the floor.

Youโ€™re Hersheyโ€™s, youโ€™re Snickers,
Youโ€™re sweet English Toffee.
If you spit in my cup,
Youโ€™ll just sweeten my coffee.

I love you so much
That Iโ€™m getting frenetic,
But I canโ€™t even kiss you,
โ€™cause Iโ€™m diabetic.

14. On The Sofa Next To You

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I want to fall asleep
On the sofa next to you.

Seas can be stormy
Times can be tough
I love you even though
You leave the seat up.

I want to make you happy
Iโ€™d grant all your wishes
But itโ€™s still your turn
To do the dishes.

15. Youโ€™re Everything I Love In Life

Youโ€™re the syrup on my pancakes,
Youโ€™re the sugar in my tea.
Youโ€™re the icing on my cupcakes,
Youโ€™re the sweets in life for me.

Youโ€™re the chocolate on my ice cream,
Youโ€™re the sweet grapes in my wine.
Youโ€™re everything I love in life,
Will you be my Valentine?

Related: The Most Beautiful Poem Ever Written

Which of these poems for Valentines Day cards struck a chord with you? Or which one of these funny short Valentines Day poems make you chuckle? Do let us know your favourites in the comments down below!


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