Have you ever wanted to express just how much your boyfriend means to you but struggled to find the right words?
Make poetry the perfect medium to convey your deepest feelings for the man you love.
Here are 10 short poems, each carefully selected to inspire and help you articulate those powerful emotions, and let your boyfriend know just how cherished he is.
Let’s dive right in!
My favorite short poem for boyfriends
#1 “For Each Ecstatic Moment” by Emily Dickinson
For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ration
To the ecstasy.
For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of years –
Bitter contested farthings –
And Coffers heaped with Tears!
Emily Dickinson’s poem, “For Each Ecstatic Moment,” perfectly captures the highs and lows of love.
In just a few lines, it shows how joy and challenges often go hand in hand in relationships.
This poem speaks to anyone who knows that love isn’t always easy but is always worth it.
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#2 “Two Minds” by Sara Teasdale
Your mind and mine are such great lovers they
Have freed themselves from cautious human clay,
And on wild clouds of thought, naked together
They ride above us in extreme delight;
We see them, we look up with a lone envy
And watch them in their zone of crystal weather
That changes not for winter or the night.
#3 “To One Away” by Sara Teasdale
I heard a cry in the night,
A thousand miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!
It was your voice I heard,
You waked and loved me so,
I send you back this word,
I know, I know!
#4 “Gifts” by Juliana Horatia Ewing
You ask me what—since we must part—
You shall bring back to me.
Bring back a pure and faithful heart
As true as mine to thee.
You talk of gems from foreign lands,
Of treasure, spoil, and prize.
Ah love! I shall not search your hands
But look into your eyes.
#5 “I Remembered” by Sara Teasdale
There never was a mood of mine,
Gay or heart-broken, luminous or dull,
But you could ease me of its fever
And give it back to me more beautiful.
In many another soul I broke the bread,
And drank the wine and played the happy guest,
But I was lonely, I remembered you;
The heart belong to him who knew it best.
#6 “Opal” by Amy Lowell
You are ice and fire,
The touch of you burns my hands like snow.
You are cold and flame.
You are the crimson of amaryllis,
The silver of moon-touched magnolias.
When I am with you,
My heart is a frozen pond
Gleaming with agitated torches.
#7 “The Name” by Williamina Parrish
I’ve learned to say it carelessly,
So no one else can see
By any little look or sign
How dear it is to me.
But, oh, the thrill, as though you kissed
My tingling finger-tips
Each time the golden syllables
Fall lightly from my lips!
#8 “The Deep-Sea Pearl” by Edith M. Thomas
The love of my life came not
As love unto others is cast;
For mine was a secret wound—
But the wound grew a pearl, at last.
The divers may come and go,
The tides, they arise and fall;
The pearl in its shell lies sealed,
And the Deep Sea covers all.
#9 “The Heart’s Country” by Florence Wilkinson
Hill people turn to their hills;
Sea folk are sick for the sea:
Thou art my land and my country,
And my heart calls out for thee.
The bird beats his wings for the open,
The captive burns to be free;
But I—I cry at thy window,
For thou art my liberty.
#10 “Love Me at Last” by Alice Corbin
Love me at last, or if you will not,
Leave me;
Hard words could never, as these half-words,
Grieve me:
Love me at last—or leave me.
Love me at last, or let the last word uttered
Be but your own;
Love me, or leave me—as a cloud, a vapor,
Or a bird flown.
Love me at last—I am but sliding water
Over a stone.