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10 Short Love Poems

Some of you may love poetry and are just looking for a new list to begin reading. Others may be working on an assignment and just want to get the easiest poem possible to explicate or read in class. But when it comes to reading poetry all of you can agree that the shorter the poem is the more likely you'll understand it and possibly enjoy it. This is why I have come up with a list of 10 short love poems for each of you to try.

Here's what I ask in return: read all of them before making a decision. Who knows, you might fall in love.

1. "When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be" - John Keats
2. "Still to be Neat" - Benjamin Jonson
3. "Music, When Soft Voices Die" - Percy Shelley
4. "O Mistress Mine" - William Shakespeare
5. "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
6. "I Never Lost As Much" - Emily Dickinson
7. "La Vita Nuova" - Dante Alighieri
8. "A Lover" - Amy Lowell
9. "Night Thoughts" - Johann Wolfgang Goethe
10. "The Ragged Wood" - William Butler Yeats

Every work listed above is a beloved short classic love poem (written before the cutoff for the public domain), so feel free to use them as much as you like. Just be sure to reference the author.

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