13 Love Poems for Your Wife to Express How Much You Love Her

They may say that romance is falling by the wayside, but even if that's the case there are so many ways you can fan the flame. Love poems for your wife are easily one of the most romantic gestures you can make. Whether long or short, steamy or sweet, old classics or newly penned, the best love poems convey your affection in a way that's sometimes difficult for you to put into your own words.

Think of love poems as an even more romantic spin on greeting cards, which have perfected the art of eloquently saying exactly what you're thinking. Best of all, you can deliver romantic love poems for your wife whenever and wherever. Send them via a text message or write them on a beautiful piece of stationery and consider sending them as a "just because" surprise or for a special occasion. And if you're nearlyweds, you can even use them as part of your wedding vows.

Filled with flowery language that effortlessly expresses your unconditional love, devotion (and yes, burning passion!), these passionate sonnets might just make your wife cry happy tears and help bring you two closer together.

1. "[i carry your heart with me (i carry it in]" by e.e. Cummings

"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) / I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done / By only me is your doing, my darling) / I fear / No fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) / I want / No world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) / And it's you are whatever a moon has always meant / And whatever a sun will always sing is you / Here is the deepest secret nobody knows / (Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud / And the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows / Higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) / And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart / I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)."

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2. "Love's Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The fountains mingle with the river / And the rivers with the ocean / The winds of heaven mix forever / With a sweet emotion / Nothing in the world is single / All things by a law divine / In another's being mingle / Why not I with thine / See the mountains kiss high heaven / And the waves clasp one another / No sister flower could be forgiven / If it disdained its brother / And the sunlight clasps the earth / And the moonbeams kiss the sea / What are all these kissings worth / If thou kiss not me."

3. "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

4. "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron

"She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies / And all that's best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes / Thus mellowed to that tender light / Which heaven to gaudy day denies / One shade the more, one ray the less / Had half impaired the nameless grace / Which waves in every raven tress / Or softly lightens o'er her face / Where thoughts serenely sweet express / How pure, how dear their dwelling-place / And on that cheek, and o'er that brow / So soft, so calm, yet eloquent / The smiles that win, the tints that glow / But tell of days in goodness spent / A mind at peace with all below / A heart whose love is innocent!"

5. "I Love You Without Knowing How" by Pablo Neruda

"I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz/ or arrow of carnations that propagate fire/ I love you as one loves certain obscure things/ secretly, between the shadow and the soul/ I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom but carries/ the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself/ and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose/ from the earth lives dimly in my body/ I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where/ I love you directly without problems or pride/ I love you like this because I don't know any other way/ to love/ except in this form in which I am not nor are you/ so close that your hand upon my chest is mine/ so close that your eyes close with my dreams."

6. "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns

"O my Luve is like a red, red rose / That's newly sprung in June / O my Luve is like the melody / That's sweetly played in tune / So 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 love 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 / Though it were ten thousand mile."

7. "Our Souls Are Mirrors" by Rupi Kaur

"God must have kneaded you and I / From the same dough / Rolled us out as one on the baking sheet / Must have suddenly realized / How unfair it was / To put that much magic in one person / And sadly split that dough in two / How else is it that / When I look in the mirror / I am looking at you / When you breathe / My own lungs fill with air / That we just met but we / Have known each other our whole lives / If we were not made as one to begin with."

8. "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats

"When you are old and grey and full of sleep / And nodding by the fire, take down this book / And slowly read, and dream of the soft look / Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep / How many loved your moments of glad grace / And loved your beauty with love false or true / But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you / And loved the sorrows of your changing face / And bending down beside the glowing bars / Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled / And paced upon the mountains overhead / And hid his face amid a crowd of stars."

9. "I Love You" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"I love your lips when they're wet with wine / And red with a wild desire / I love your eyes when the lovelight lies / Lit with a passionate fire / I love your arms when the warm white flesh / Touches mine in a fond embrace / I love your hair when the strands enmesh / Your kisses against my face / Not for me the cold, calm kiss / Of a virgin's bloodless love / Not for me the saint's white bliss / Nor the heart of a spotless dove / But give me the love that so freely gives / And laughs at the whole world's blame / With your body so young and warm in my arms / It sets my poor heart aflame / So kiss me sweet with your warm wet mouth / Still fragrant with ruby wine / And say with a fervor born of the South / That your body and soul are mine / Clasp me close in your warm young arms / While the pale stars shine above / And we'll live our whole young lives away / In the joys of a living love."

10. "Our Love" by Martin Dejnicki

"I'm truly grateful / I can't complain / The love that we share / has infected my brain / Precious sweet love / others can't find/ But we managed to find it / it's crazy and blind / I'm not saying at all / that our love is weird / But if it was alive / it'd have horns and a beard / The bottom line is / I love you and care / We certainly make / a wacky old pair / You kiss like a monkey / allow me to share / When you get upset/ you scream like a bear / All jokes aside / I love you my dear / I know you shall serve me / for the rest of the year."

11. "Devotion" by Robert Frost

"The heart can think of no devotion / Greater than being shore to ocean / Holding the curve of one position / Counting an endless repetition."

12. "Unending Love" by Rabindranath Tagore

"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… / In life after life, in age after age, forever / My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs / That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms / In life after life, in age after age, forever."

13. "How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"How do I love 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 ideal grace/ I love thee to the level of every day's/ Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light/ I love thee freely, as men strive for right/ I love thee purely, as they turn from praise/ I love thee with the passion put to use/ In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith/ I love thee with a love I seemed to lose/ With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath/ Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose/ I shall but love thee better after death."