This Valentine’s Day, the Academy of American Poets, the producer of Poets.org—one of the world’s most popular online resources for poems—invites you to share more love poems. Here are fourteen selections by poets past and present from its curated collection of more than 100 for the upcoming occasion:
“Lunch Break” by Francisco Aragón
“i love you to the moon &” by Chen Chen
“Love Comes Quietly” by Robert Creeley
“In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever” by Wanda Coleman
“If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert” by Natalie Diaz
“I Saw You” by Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.
“She Walks in Beauty” by George Gordon Byron
“Recurrence” by Dorothy Parker
“In the Heart of a Rose” by George Marion McClellan
“Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)” by Ruth Muskrat Bronson
“Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of my Fur” by Ellen Bass
“Will You?” by Carrie Fountain
“Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi” by Nathan McClain
“Song Out Here” by Juan Felipe Herrera