# Short Romantic Poem needed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362 "2007-04-02T01:04:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/21 "2007-04-02T15:16:16Z")
[QUOTE=Northern Piper] “Grow old along with me, the _ **best** _ is yet to be” ? [/QUOTE] :smack: Yes, yes it should. Damn typo. ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/22 "2007-04-02T15:20:53Z")
Since you only have a few lines here is some Shakespeare: _They do not love that do not show their love._ _As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words._ _Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love._ ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/23 "2007-04-02T15:23:24Z")
I wanna make you smile whenever youre sad Carry you around when your arthritis is bad All I wanna do is grow old with you Ill get your medicine when your tummy aches Build you a fire if the furnace breaks Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you Ill miss you Ill kiss you Give you my coat when you are cold Ill need you Ill feed you Even let ya hold the remote control So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink Put you to bed if youve had too much to drink I could be the man who grows old with you I wanna grow old with you ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/24 "2007-04-02T15:24:42Z")
Congratulations on your wedding, may you your life together more each passing day. sorry I didn’t put that in the first post ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/25 "2007-04-02T15:41:28Z")
Here’s the entire fragment known as “Western Wind”: > [@](#): > > O western wind, when will thou blow, > the small rain down can rain? > Christ! if my love were in my arms > and I in my bed again There’s an understood “that” at the start of the second line. This one is from awoman to a man, but always struck me as one of the most romantic I’ve read: [The River-Merchant’s Wife](http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15425) This one is ostensibly about the meanings of words, but I find it very romantic: [Meditations at Lagunitas](http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/87_88/hass1.html) For a much very modern take on love, there’s the dry and bitter [Love, 20 cents the first quarter mile](http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/fearing/additional_poems.htm) which despite its own cynicism burns with passion. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_McCello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Alistair\_McCello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alistair_McCello)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/26 "2007-04-02T16:19:49Z")
Either of these two exerts from Percy Shelley’s **Love’s Philosophy** may fit your needs: Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law devine In one another’s being mingle - Why not I with thine? - or - And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea - What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me? ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/27 "2007-04-02T20:21:01Z")
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) – e e cummings ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/28 "2007-04-02T20:36:10Z")
[QUOTE=DeVena] 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) – e e cummings [/QUOTE] Heh–I was thinking of this full sonnet, and decided it was too long. This is a great excerpt! It was the poem I gave at my brother’s wedding; I love its sentiments. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/29 "2007-04-02T23:17:13Z")
Thank you so much everyone, 🙂 I have much thinking to do to pick one verse out of all these suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/30 "2007-04-02T23:32:00Z")
Probably too long for your requirements, but this poem by [Yeats](http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/597.html) is beautiful for lovers starting out their life together: > [@](#): > > **He wishes for the cloths of heaven** > > Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, > Enwrought with golden and silver light, > The blue and the dim and the dark cloths > Of night and light and the half light, > I would spread the cloths under your feet: > But I, being poor, have only my dreams; > I have spread my dreams under your feet; > Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/31 "2007-04-03T05:54:05Z")
**Attention, everyone:** There is only one perfect poem in the world. It is by W. B. Yeats, and it is called “A Drinking Song.” It goes like this: > [@](#): > > Wine comes in at the mouth > And love comes in at the eye; > That’s all we shall know for truth > Before we grow old and die. > I lift the glass to my mouth, > I look at you, and I sigh. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/32 "2007-04-03T16:25:37Z")
This makes the word limit (and is appropriate for a champagne bottle) Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/33 "2007-04-03T17:12:26Z")
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy] Who carried his balls in a bucket [/QUOTE] He had a fair wife ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/34 "2007-04-03T17:36:41Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] He had a fair wife [/QUOTE] Who caused him much strife ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/35 "2007-04-03T18:35:08Z")
Ooh, I just remembered a pretty good one for a man to give a woman on his wedding day: [Love Song, I and Thou](http://www.ftrain.com/poem_lovesong.html) by Alan Dugan. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/36 "2007-04-03T19:20:43Z")
_for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy Faith my Faith: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried_ (seems like someone has probably set that to music by now.) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/37 "2007-04-03T20:31:01Z")
“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.” Seems fitting for a bottle of champagne. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/38 "2007-04-03T22:11:58Z")
Do you love me Or do you not? You told me once But I forgot. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362/39 "2007-04-04T00:32:55Z")
Given the write up for my favorite [short romantic poem](http://www.english.uiuc.edu/MAPS/poets/g_l/amylowell/opal.htm), I think it’s fair to say I myself am not a romantic. at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-romantic-poem-needed/398362.md?page=1)