15 Romantic Love Poems for Your Husband to Show Off Your Love

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Hayley Folk
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Hayley Folk
Hayley Folk
Hayley Folk
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  • Hayley writes articles on a freelance basis for The Knot Worldwide, with a specialty in sex and relationships.
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Updated Jul 02, 2024

It's no secret that the greatest poets had a way with words. In seemingly simple ways, or by reciting more complex sonnets, poetry has the power to evoke the deepest emotions: sadness, joy, beauty, sorrow and love. But unlike many might think, poetry isn't just for your wedding day or the corny romance movies. In fact, we think your spouse would love to be serenaded with the greatest poetic ballad you can muster. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, going on your weekly date night, renewing your vows or just sitting at home on the couch together, these 15 love poems for your husband will definitely convey your devotion and care.

From the poets of all time, like Shakespeare, or modern love writers, if you're searching for 'love poems for my husband' you've come to the right place. Here are some of our favorites, whether short, deep or moving, below.

1. "For My Husband," by Susan Loughlin

"Loving you has no end and no beginning/ Loving you is everything/ It is infinite in time/ And limitless in magnitude/ Beyond even my own comprehension/ Your love brings me home/ Enfolds me and warms me/ In its eternal embrace/ Endless and palpable/ Beyond all life's storms/ A connection like no other/ Twenty years long/ But timeless in our hearts/ Deep and true/ Til' death us do part."

2. "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 let's so persevere,/ That when we live no more, we may live ever."

3. "Yours," by Daniel Hoffman

"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?"

4. "The New Beginning," by Olufunke Kolapo

"Like the warmth of the morning sun,/ So do thoughts of you embrace me,/ Revealing how alive I am/ A glorious light of the new day,/ so is your presence in my life,/ relieving it of its shadows,/ and marking the start of a new beginning."

5. "For Him," by Rupi Kaur

"no,/ it won't/ be love at/ first sight when/ we meet it'll be love/ at first remembrance/ 'cause i've recognized you/ in my mother's eyes when she tells me,/ marry the type of/ man you'd want to raise your son to be like."

6. "Sonnet 40," by Shakespeare

"Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all:/ What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?/ No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call—/ All mine was thine before thou hadst this more./ Then if for my love thou my love receivest,/ I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;/ But yet be blamed if thou this self deceivest/ By wilful taste of what thyself refusest./ I do forgive thy robb'ry, gentle thief,/ Although thou steal thee all my poverty;/ And yet love knows it is a greater grief/ To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury./ Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,/ Kill me with spites, yet we must not be foes."

7. "Variations on the Word Love," by Margaret Atwood

"This is a word we use to plug/ holes with. It's the right size for those warm/ blanks in speech, for those red heart-/ shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing/ like real hearts. Add lace/ and you can sell/ it. We insert it also in the one empty/ space on the printed form/ that comes with no instructions. There are whole/ magazines with not much in them/ but the word love, you can/ rub it all over your body and you/ can cook with it too. How do we know/ it isn't what goes on at the cool/ debaucheries of slugs under damp/ pieces of cardboard? As for the weed-/ seedlings nosing their tough snouts up/ among the lettuces, they shout it./ Love! Love! sing the/ soldiers, raising/ their glittering knives in salute./ Then there's the two/ of us. This word/ is far too short for us, it has only/ four letters, too sparse/ to fill those deep bare/ vacuums between the stars/ that press on us with their deafness./ It's not love we don't wish/ to fall into, but that fear./ this word is not enough but it will/ have to do. It's a single/ vowel in this metallic/ silence, a mouth that says/ O again and again in wonder/ and pain, a breath, a finger/ grip on a cliffside./ You can/ hold on or let go."

8. "Love's Philosophy," by Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The fountains mingle with the river/ And the rivers with the ocean,/ The winds of heaven mix forever/ 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?"

9. "Echo," by Carol Ann Duffy

"I think I was searching for treasures or stones/ in the clearest of pools/ when your face…/ when your face,/ like the moon in a well/ where I might wish…/ might well wish/ for the iced fire of your kiss;/ only on water my lips,/ where your face…/ where your face was reflected, lovely,/ not really there when I turned/ to look behind at the emptying air…/ the emptying air."

10. "You Are My Everything," by Jetem Westbrook

"When you were my friend/ You were amazing/ When you were my boyfriend/ You were outstanding/ When you were my fiancé/ You were commendable/ As my husband now/ You are incredible/ You have been the perfect lover/ At every juncture of life/ Of such a loving husband/ I am proud of a wife/ I love you."

11. "Dear Husband," by Swati Patwal

"Until we met, I was not sure of true love./ For me, love was a fantasy, a fairy tale found only in books./ But ever since I saw you, I knew you were meant for me./ You may not be the perfect partner, who is?/ But you certainly are the one who completes me in numerous ways."

12. "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," by Christopher Marlowe

"Come live with me and be my love,/ And we will all the pleasures prove,/ That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,/ Woods, or steepy mountain yields./ And we will sit upon the Rocks,/ Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks,/ By shallow Rivers to whose falls/ Melodious birds sing Madrigals./ And I will make thee beds of Roses/ And a thousand fragrant posies,/ A cap of flowers, and a kirtle/ Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle;/ A gown made of the finest wool/ Which from our pretty Lambs we pull;/ Fair lined slippers for the cold,/ With buckles of the purest gold;/ A belt of straw and Ivy buds,/ With Coral clasps and Amber studs:/ And if these pleasures may thee move,/ Come live with me, and be my love./ The Shepherds' Swains shall dance and sing/For thy delight each May-morning:/ If these delights thy mind may move,/ Then live with me, and be my love."

13. "Wish," by Christina Rossetti

"Wish/ I wish I could remember that first day,/ First hour, first moment of your meeting me,/ If bright or dim the season, it might be/ Summer or Winter for aught I can say;/ So unrecorded did it slip away,/ So blind was I to see and to foresee,/ So dull to mark the budding of my tree/ That would not blossom yet for many a May…"

14. "Close Your Eyes," by Elizabeth Smith

"Close your eyes and think of me/ Close your eyes and try to see/ Our hearts together and what could be/ Our love forever as destiny."

15. "My Love For You is Like The Raging Sea," by Elaine Chetty

"My love for you is like the raging sea,/ So powerful and deep it will forever be./ Through storm, wind, and heavy rain,/ It will withstand every pain./ Our hearts are so pure and love so sweet./ I love you more with every heartbeat!"

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