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This TabStart page presents a hand-selected group of websites that feature cute, short love poems. This poetry is playful and romantic, and it captures the exhilarating, jubilant feelings of love. There is sumptuous verse here by the likes of Pablo Neruda, e.e. cummings, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, amongst many others.
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"I Love You" - a Cute, Short Love Poem by Sara Teasdale - The Academy of American Poets provides "I Love You" by Sara Teasdale. This short, cute verse employs bird metaphors to indicate the sometimes flighty nature of romance.
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"Love's Philosophy" - a Cute, Short Love Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley - Old Poetry offers Percy Bysshe Shelley's sweet "Love's Philosophy." This brief work ends with the lines, "And the sunlight clasps the earth / And the moonbeams kiss the sea-- / What are all these kissings worth / If thou kiss not me?"
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"Love Song" - a Cute, Short Love Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke - PoemHunter.com presents Rainer Maria Rilke's gorgeous and cute work in which the poet wonders "How can I keep my soul in me, so that / it doesn't touch your soul?" The narrator playfully discusses his fear that because his love is so great he will lose himself in it completely.
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Romantic Love Poems from the Poetry Foundation - The Poetry Foundation offers an outstanding section on Romantc Love Poetry ('romantic' the mood, not the poetry movement), and it includes poems by Robert Creeley, e.e. cummings, Kenneth Koch, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In addition to this section on Romantic Love Poetry, this wonderful site supplies sections on Classic Love, Desire, Infatuation & Cruches, and First Love.
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Love Poems from the Academy of American Poets - The Academy of American Poets features this comprehensive page of love poetry by some of the most illustrious poets in the medium's vast history, including William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, and W.H. Auden. The poetry on this page is grouped into Traditional & Classic Love Poems, American Classics, and Contemporary Love Poems.
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Poems about Love from OldPoetry.com - The Old Poetry website supplies this section on Poems about Love, and it includes many works that are short. Some of the poets whose work is represented here include Pablo Neruda, Rabindranath Tagore, and Paul Verlaine.