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Famous Love Poems Part I

The Wedding Directory’s Top Ten Most Romantic Wedding Poems

Are you looking for a special poem to use at your wedding but lack the time to browse through hundreds of poems? Well, never fear! Knowing just how much running around you’re already doing, we’ve taken it on ourselves to do the hard work for you. Here’s The Wedding Directory’s Top Ten Most Romantic Wedding Poems just for you, the harried bride-to-be…

Sonnet 116 – Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright and poet. Sonnet 116 is arguably the best known and most well-loved of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. The sonnet’s theme is eternal and unchanging love – or love in its most ideal form – and it alludes to the marriage service itself. In the famous line, ‘love is not love which alters when it alterations finds’, Shakespeare stresses that love is not judgemental or conditional; rather it is constant and unwavering.

Love One Another

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-born American artist, poet and writer. Considered to the third most widely-read poet, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. Love One Another offers precious and sound relationship advice!

Wedding Prayer

Lord, behold our family here assembled.
We thank you for this place in which we dwell,
for the love that unites us,
for the peace accorded us this day,
for the hope with which we expect the morrow,
for the health, the work, the food,
and the bright skies that make our lives delightful;
for our friends in all parts of the earth.
Amen

Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer. Enjoy the heartfelt sentiments expressed by this simple wedding blessing, penned by one of literature’s great writers.

 

My River

My river runs to thee.
Blue sea, wilt thou welcome me?
My river awaits reply.
Oh! sea, look graciously.

I’ll fetch thee brooks
from spotted nooks.
Say, sea, Take me!

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), American poet. Dive into the sea of passion, with this wonderfully crafted short poem which captures the passion and chaos of surrendering to love.

A Red Red Rose

O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry:

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only Luve,
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ it ware ten thousand mile.

Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet and lyricist. Although often published as a poem, A Red Red Rose was actually written as a song and remains one of the most popular testaments to love.