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I Wish I Could Trust You Again Poems

20 Dear Poems for Every Mood

Fumbling for words of love? Let the great poets speak your eye on all occasions.

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What kind of love are you in the mood for?

From romance to friendship and everything in between, there are many types of dear in the world. And for each of them, there's a dear poem out there that eloquently captures their essence. While in that location are innumerable books and movies about love, poets take a way of conveying what can't exist communicated through prose or aboveboard speech. Somehow, their verses reverberate exactly what y'all're feeling.

For proof, see our list of love poems for every mood and occasion. Whether you lot're in honey, looking for dear, or have some complicated feelings virtually this complicated emotion, nosotros've got the perfect one for you lot. Want to evidence that special someone how you feel? Share these cute words from the people who said information technology all-time, or try these romantic ideas to say, "I love you."

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If only now I could recall that touch, First touch of hand in hand – Did one but know! —"I Wish I Could Remember That First Day," Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) rd.com

Nostalgia

I wish I could retrieve that start day,
Get-go hour, first moment of your meeting me,
If bright or dim the season, it might be
Summer or Wintertime for naught I can say;
So unrecorded did information technology sideslip away,
So blind was I to come across and to foresee,
So wearisome to mark the budding of my tree
That would not blossom yet for many a May.
If only I could recollect it, such
A day of days! I let it come and go
As traceless as a thaw of foretime snow;
It seemed to mean and then piddling, meant so much;
If only now I could recall that touch,
First bear upon of hand in hand – Did one merely know!
—"I Wish I Could Retrieve That Kickoff Day," Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)

When you lot're thinking back to that very first moment between the two of you, you may plow to Christina Rossetti's words of longing in "I Wish I Could Remember That First Day." If merely yous knew how big of an affect that tiny moment would make—and if only y'all could have held onto every memory from it. In the 19th century, Rossetti establish her voice every bit the youngest of a family of Italian-English language scholars. Surrounded by her accomplished parents and siblings, she rose to fame equally one of the Victorian era'due south greatest poets.

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Flirtation rd.com

Amour

Later on all, there'south no demand
to say anything

at outset. An orange, peeled
and quartered, flares

like a tulip on a wedgewood plate
Anything can happen.

Outside the sun
has rolled up her rugs

and nighttime strewn salt
across the sky. My centre

is humming a tune
I haven't heard in years!

Tranquility'southward absurd flesh—
permit'due south sniff and eat it.

There are ways
to make of the moment

a topiary
and then the pleasure's in

walking through.
—"Flirtation," Rita Dove (b.1952)

Capturing those brief moments that concur a whole earth of feeling, "Amour" past Rita Pigeon is the love poem to turn to when you sense those sparks flying. The poet was raised in Ohio by her trailblazing African American chemist parents and went on to publish multiple works in her distinctive style, which blends historical narrative with a personal touch. Her book T homas and Beulah won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987. These stories of first loves will touch your heart.

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Breakup blues rd.com

Bittersweet longing

Waking
on the train, I thought
we were attacked

by light:
chrome-winged birds
hatching from the lagoon.

That first solar day
the buoys were all
that made the harbor

endurable:
pennies sewn into a hemline.
Later on I learned to live in it,

to walk
through the alien city—
a beekeeper's habit—

with trigger-happy light
clinging to my caput and hands.
Treated as gently as every

other guest—
each business firm's barbed antennae
trawling for any kind

of weather—
all the same I sobbed in a glass box
on an unswept street

with the final
few lire ticking similar fleas
off my phonecard I'm deplorable

I tin't
stand this, which
one of us do y'all love?
—"Venice, Unaccompanied," Monica Youn (b.1971)

If y'all're dreaming of faraway places and alluring adventures, then this poem past Monica Youn, which combines a sense of wanderlust with bittersweet longing, is for y'all. To satisfy your wanderlust while also spending time with that special someone, check out the 13 well-nigh romantic small towns in the The states.

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More friends

Dearest is similar the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree—
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
Just which will bloom most constantly?
The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes over again
And who will call the wild-briar off-white?
Then contemptuousness the featherbrained rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly's sheen,
That when December blights thy forehead
He still may go out thy garland green.
—"Love and Friendship," Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

This verse form by Emily Brontë captures those often-confusing, in-between feelings of friendship and dear. Wondering whether to take a friendship to the side by side level? Go a sense of the other person's feelings by deciphering their body language. This research on how a person'southward gaze can reveal their affections will help.

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I loved you, and I probably still do, And for a while the feeling may remain... But let my love no longer trouble you, I do not wish to cause you any pain. rd.com

Past beloved

I loved you, and I probably still do,
And for a while the feeling may remain…
Just let my love no longer trouble you lot,
I do not wish to crusade you whatever pain.
I loved you; and the hopelessness I knew,
The jealousy, the shyness—though in vain—
Made upward a love so tender so true
As may God grant you to be loved again.
—"I Loved You," Alexander Sergeyevich Puskin (1799–1837)

Published in 1830, this Russian verse form expresses both respect and devotion toward a erstwhile love. Pushkin, who is oftentimes regarded as Russia'due south greatest poet, wrote in an autobiographical style that captured the rather tumultuous episodes of his beloved life. His seminal work, Eugene Onegin, even foreshadowed his own death in a duel against an admirer of his wife, Natalia. Find out how these real couples knew they'd found "the i."

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Fulfillment

The time volition come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each volition smile at the other'due south welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love once more the stranger who was your self.
Give vino. Give staff of life. Requite dorsum your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you lot

all your life, whom you lot ignored
for another, who knows you by middle.
Take downwardly the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Banquet on your life.
—"Dear Subsequently Love," Derek Walcott (1930–2017)

How do nosotros accomplish a country of bliss? For some, that sense of true happiness comes from a loving relationship, and for others, like Caribbean area poet Derek Walcott, it comes from a identify of self-satisfaction and agreement. Sometimes the happiest times are born from our credence of ourselves as nosotros are. This is the one secret you need to know to live a happy life: Your relationship with yourself is as important equally your relationship with others.

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(let's go said he not too far said she what's too far said he where you are said she) rd.com

Lust

may i feel said he
(i'll squeal said she
merely once said he)
information technology'southward fun said she

(may i impact said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she

(let's go said he
non as well far said she
what'due south likewise far said he
where you are said she)

may i stay said he
(which way said she
like this said he
if you osculation said she

may i move said he
is it honey said she)
if you lot're willing said he
(only you're killing said she

but information technology'southward life said he
just your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she

(meridian said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she

(cccome?said he
ummm said she)
you're divine!said he
(you are Mine said she)
—"may i feel said he," E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)

Seductive, straightforward, and playful, this to-and-fro between a homo and a woman every bit they engage in an affair captures the complications that come with sexual relationships in its deceptively simple prose. FYI, here's how to tell if you lot're in dear…or just animalism.

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I want to be your love for ever and ever, Without break or decay. When the hills are all flat, The rivers are all dry. rd.com

Everlasting dear

I desire to be your dear for ever and ever,
Without suspension or decay.
When the hills are all flat,
The rivers are all dry out.
When it thunders in wintertime,
When it snows in summer
When heaven and world mingle,
Not till then will I function from y'all.
—"God," Unknown

This brusque classical Chinese poetry from the perspective of a woman confessing her undying affection to a lover is a Yuefu folk vocal from the Han Dynasty (206 BC–220 Advert). For more ancient wisdom, check out these timeless Chinese proverbs worth remembering.

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I felt a spirit of love begin to stir within my heart, long time unfelt till then - Dante Alghieri rd.com

Promise

I felt a spirit of beloved begin to stir
Inside my heart, long time unfelt till and so:
And saw Love coming towards me fair and fain
(That I scarce knew him for his joyful cheer),
Saying, "Be at present indeed my worshipper!"
And in his speech he laughed and laughed again.
Then, while it was his pleasure to remain,
I chanced to look the fashion he had fatigued almost,
And saw the Ladies Joan and Beatrice
Approach me, this the other following,
One and a 2nd marvel instantly.
And even equally at present my memory speaketh this,
Dear spake it then: "The first is christened Spring;
The 2nd Love, she is and then like to me."
—"I Felt a Spirit of Dearest Brainstorm to Stir," Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

Dante, at the age of 9, outset cruel in honey with the Lady Beatrice, so viii years quondam herself, when he caught a glimpse of her in passing. Struck by her beauty, he remained devoted to her for the remainder of his life and immortalized her as a model of love and beauty in his poetry and writing. It'south unknown whether he e'er actually spoke to the object of his amore before her untimely death in 1290, just who can say why we beloved who nosotros love?

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Seduction

She walks in dazzler, similar the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that'southward all-time of dark and bright
See in her aspect and her eyes
—"She Walks in Beauty," Lord Byron (1788–1824)

"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know," the poet Lord Byron was the heartthrob of 19th-century London, setting the way for every tousled, troubled troubadour who has followed to the present day. Despite Byron's terrible reputation and clubfoot, no one could resist the lyrical, romantic overtures in his dearest poems (supposedly non even his own half-sister!), and this tender poetry gives united states a hint as to why.

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Rivalry

I am non jealous
of what came before me.
Come with a man
on your shoulders,
come with a hundred men in your hair,
come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet….
Bring them all
to where I am waiting for you;
we shall always be lonely,
nosotros shall always be you and I
alone on world,
to beginning our life!
—"E'er," Pablo Neruda (1904–1973)

He may have served his native state equally a diplomat and politician, as well as won the Nobel Prize for literature, merely Neruda was best known as "a frank, sensuous spokesman for love." Perchance the most passionate of all modernistic poets, no one makes a woman with a past sound sexier than Neruda in these bold, ringing lines. Here are more romantic poetry lines that will make you swoon.

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Rapture

How do I dear thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and platonic grace
—"Sonnet 43," Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

Nothing sums up the feeling of complete and total beloved quite like Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 43." Past the time the poetess met her much younger husband, Robert Browning, she was already a literary celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic, but her poor health and overprotective family unit kept her near a prisoner in her room. Although Barrett Browning was already 40, she was forced to elope with her married man and fled to Italy, where her newlywed bliss apparently continued.

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or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, rd.com

Tenderness

or if your wish be to shut me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, all of a sudden,
every bit when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending….
(i do not know what it is most you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your optics is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such pocket-size hands
—"somewhere i have never travelled, gladly across," Due east. E. Cummings (1894–1962)

As the beginning poet to popularize all lower-case letters and random punctuation, E. Due east. Cummings was considered a dominion breaker. But here, he declares in subtle, heartfelt metaphors how securely he respects his love'due south boundaries and how willing he is to retreat at the least sign of rejection. At present that's a timely poem.

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..once I look at you for a moment, I can't speak any longer, but my tongue breaks down —"In My Eyes He Matches the Gods," Sappho (7th century BC) rd.com

Passion

…once I look at you for a moment, I tin can't speak any longer, merely my tongue breaks down, and then all at in one case a subtle burn down races within my skin, my optics can't see a thing and a whirring whistle thrums at my hearing, cold sweat covers me and a trembling takes ahold of me all over: I'm greener than the grass is and appear to myself to exist little short of dying.
—"In My Eyes He Matches the Gods," Sappho (seventh century BC)

Yep, she'south that Sappho, the classical Greek poetess from the island of Lesbos. Remarkably, nosotros but have a few peppery fragments of Sappho'southward writing left, but those love poems are still inspiring lovers of all kinds after almost 3,000 years.

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Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread; rd.com

Loss

Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than than bread;
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
All that was once so cute is expressionless….
For it was in my middle you moved amidst them,
And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes;
And in my center they will think always, —
They knew you once, O beautiful and wise.
—"Music I Heard with You lot," Conrad Aiken (1889–1973)

Equally yous might guess, Aiken was a man on intimate terms with tragedy. When he was a child, his father killed his mother and then took his own life. Aiken grew upwards to be a sensitive soul. Co-ordinate to the Academy of American Poets, "he avoided military machine service during World State of war I by challenge that, equally a poet, he was part of an 'essential industry.'" He married three times, but as we tin see from some of his poetry, including the lines to a higher place, he never fully recovered from his babyhood trauma.

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Remembering

Concluding nighttime, your retention stole into my eye—
as spring sweeps uninvited into barren gardens,
every bit morn breezes reinvigorate dormant deserts,
equally a patient all of a sudden feels amend, for no credible reason …
—"Last Night," Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984)

Islamic republic of pakistan's most beloved mod poet was equally well-known for writing about political protestation as romance. But here, Faiz carries on the tradition of classical Due south Asian honey poetry, showing his lyrical, wistful side as he revels in the recollection of dearest. For more words of wisdom, read these inspirational poems that will warm your heart.

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Desperation

Ah, love, let united states of america be true
To one some other! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for hurting;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash past nighttime.
—"Dover Beach," Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

Believe it or not, these darkly cute lines are actually office of a honeymoon verse form, equanimous on England's Dover Beach shortly after the poet's wedding in 1851. Maybe his new wife, Frances Lucy Wrightsman, was charmed by Arnold's dour passion in his love poems, because their spousal relationship lasted 37 more years and produced vi children. You won't desire to miss the most romantic quotes from books.

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Longing

Oh, western wind, when wilt thou blow
the pocket-size rain down can pelting
Christ, if my love were in my arms
and I in my bed again
—"Western Air current," Anonymous (16th century)

This evocative fragment was first recorded every bit a vocal. Whether the speaker is a soldier or a shepherd, he longs for the rainy season, which will give him an alibi to come up home to his love. Nosotros don't know if the narrator is cursing or pleading to see her, but the third line gives this 500-year-quondam poem a surprisingly modern tone.

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Breakup dejection

We stood by a swimming that wintertime twenty-four hours,
And the dominicus was white, every bit though chidden of God,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;
They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.

Your eyes on me were every bit eyes that rove
Over wearisome riddles of years ago;
And some words played betwixt united states of america to and fro
On which lost the more by our love.

The smile on your rima oris was the deadest affair
Alive enough to have force to dice;
And a smile of bitterness swept thereby
Like an ominous bird a-wing….

Since then, keen lessons that beloved deceives,
And wrings with incorrect, accept shaped to me
Your face, and the God curst dominicus, and a tree,
And a pond edged with grayish leaves.
—"Neutral Tones," Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

We've all experienced those post-breakup blues, when memories of what once was get grayed by the reality of separation and the loss of love. In these moments, about of all, we demand a companion in our melancholy…like Thomas Hardy's words in this verse form. The 19th-century English poet lived and wrote in Dorset, a small coastal town on the southern coast of England, where he drew inspiration for his acclaimed fiction and poesy. Dealing with heartbreak? We totally get it—but you should notwithstanding never do these twenty things to get over a breakdown.

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Secrets

When you come to me, unbidden,
Beckoning me
To long-agone rooms,
Where memories prevarication.
Offering me, equally to a child, an attic,
Gatherings of days too few.
Baubles of stolen kisses.
Trinkets of borrowed loves.
Trunks of hugger-mugger words,
I cry.
—"When Yous Come," Maya Angelou (1928–2014)

Hither, the cracking African American memoirist and civil rights poet explores the painful tenderness of human vulnerability. In these lines, we see that romantic love is the key that opens Angelou's storehouses of secrets and pain. Next, have a look at these other quotes that bear witness Maya Angelou at her best.

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