looking for love poetry...?

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Eliza T

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So, for english class we're putting together a book of our classes' favorite poems. So, naturally I need to find one, she gave us some great websites to browse with tons of poems but im not having much luck. Im looking for love poetry... but all I can seem to find is very sad love poems where their lover has left them or they just aren't together. Does anybody know of any happy love poems? Poems about the power of love, the happiness of love?
 
"Shall I compare thee..." (Sonnet XVIII) by Shakespeare is quite a nice love poem. It's about how love is too amazing and beautiful to be described by earthly things such as summer which seem great but still have faults - therefore saying that love has no fault.

and I agree with you, it can be really hard to find a nice love poem, they all seem to be really solemn
 
Shakespeare is definitely a good choice, but I prefer Sonnet 130 (CXXX) to the "Summer's Day" sonnet.
 
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