Famous Love Poetry is greatly indebted to Shakespeare and his age.

Here are 3 more examples of Shakespearean famous love poetry in his sonnets:

That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold

That time of year thou mayst in me behold,

When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,

Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day,

As after sunset fadeth in the west,

Which by and by black night doth take away,

Death's second self that seals up all in rest.

In me tho see'st the glowing of such fire,

That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,

As the death bed, whereon it must expire,

Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.

...This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,

...To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.

How Like a Winter Hath My absence Been

How like a winter hath my absence been

From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!

What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!

What old December's bareness everywhere!

And yet this time removed was summer's time,

The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,

Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,

Like widowed wombs after their lords' decrease:

Yet this abundant issue seemed to me

But hope of orphans and unfathered fruit;

For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,

And, thou away, the very birds are mute;

Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer

That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.

The third example of shakespeare's famous love poetry is "O never say that I was false of heart"

O never say that I was false of heart

O Never say that I was false of heart,

Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify!

As easy might I from myself depart,

As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie:

That is my home of love; if I have ranged,

Like him that travels I return again,

Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,

So that myself bring water for my stain.

Never believe, though in my nature reign'd

All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,

That it could so prepost'rously be stain'd,

To leave for nothing all thy sum of good:

...For nothing this wide Universe I call,

...Save thou, my Rose; in it thou art my all.

There is more from the famous love poetry of William Shakespeare, below:

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Famous Love Poetry Examples 1

Shelley

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