Meski cinta terkadang tak bisa diungkapkan hanya dengan kata-kata, namun merangkai kata demi kata dalam untaian akan melahirkan kalimat yang indah.
Puisi biasa digunakan orang untuk mengungkapkan kasih sayang kepada orang yang dicintai. Ada banyak puisi cinta, baik yang berasal dari pujangga maupun seseorang yang memiliki pengalaman dan mampu mendeskripsikan perasaannya kepada yang tercinta.
1. To My Dear and Loving Husband, puisi cinta dari Anne Bradstreet
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Thy love is such I can no way repay
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray
Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere
That when we live no more, we may live ever
2. How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnett 43), puisi cinta dari Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
I love thee to depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace
3. She Walks in Beauty, puisi cinta dari Lord Byron
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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
4. Love is a fire that burns unseen, puisi cinta dari Luis Vaz de Camões
Pexels/Gary Barnes
Love is a fire that burns unseen
A wound that aches yet isn’t felt
An always discontent contentment
A pain that rages without hurting
5. Rondel of Merciless Beauty, puisi cinta dari Geoffrey Chaucer
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Upon my word, I tell you faithfully
Through life and after death you are my queen
For with my death the whole truth shall be seen
Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly
Their beauty shakes me who was once serene
Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen
6. Love is More Thicker Than Forget, puisi cinta dari E. E. Cummings
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Love is more thicker than forget
More thinner than recall
More seldom than a wave is wet
More frequent than to fail
7. Sthandwa sami (my beloved, isiZulu), puisi cinta dari Yrsa Daley-Ward
Pexels/Van Thang
My thoughts about you are
Frightening but precise
I can see the house on the hill
Where we make our own vegetables out back
And drink warm wine out of jam jars
And sing songs in the kitchen until the sun comes up
When you make me feel like myself again
8. Before You Came, puisi cinta dari Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio
Don’t leave now that you’re here –
Stay. So the world may become like itself again:
So the sky may by the sky
The road a road
And the glass of wine not a mirror
Just a glass of wine
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9. Lines Depicting Simple Happiness, puisi cinta dari Peter Gizzi
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It feels right to notice all the shiny things about you
About you there is nothing I wouldn’t want to know
With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler
About you many good things come into relation
10. For Keeps, puisi cinta dari Joy Harjo
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Sun makes the day new
Tiny green plants emerge from earth
Birds are singing the sky into place
There is nowhere else I want to be but here
11. Yours, puisi cinta dari Daniel Hoffman
Pexels/Subodh Bajpai
I am yours as the summer air at evening is
Possessed by the scent of linden blossoms
As the snowcap gleams with light
Lent it by the brimming moon
Without you I’d be an unleaded tree
Blasted in a bleakness with no Spring
12. For Him, puisi cinta dari Rupi Kaur
Pexels/Joao Jesus
No,
It won’t
Be love at
First sight when
We meet it’ll be love
At first remembrance
‘Cause I’ve recognized you
In my mother’s eyes when she tells me,
Marry the type of man you’d want to raise your son to be like
13. Camomile Tea, puisi cinta dari Katherine Mansfield
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We might be fifty, we might be five,
So snug, so compact, so wise are we!
Under the kitchen – table leg
My knee is pressing against his knee
Our shutters are shut, the fire is ow
The tap is dripping peacefully
The saucepan shadows on the wall
Are black and round and plain to see
14. Your Feet, puisi cinta dari Pablo Neruda
Pexels/Leah Kelley
But I love your feet
Only because they walked
Upon the earth and upon
The wind and upon the waters,
Until they found me
15. Untitled, puisi cinta dari Christopher Poindexter
Pexels/Sandro Crepulja
I miss you even when you
Are beside me
I dream of your body
Even when you are sleeping
In my arms
The words I love you
Could never be enough
16. I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love, puisi cinta dari Christine Rossetti
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I loved you first: but afterwards your love
Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song
As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove
Which owes the other most? My love was long,
And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong
17. Poem I Wrote Sitting Across The Table from You, puisi cinta dari Kevin Varrone
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I would fold myself
Into the hole in pocket and disappear
Into the pocket of myself, or at least my pants
But before I did
Like some ancient star
I’d grab your hand
18. I Love You, puisi cinta dari Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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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
19. My Lover Is a Woman, puisi cinta dari Pat Parker
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My lover is a woman
And when I hold her
Feel her warmth
I feel good
Feel safe
20. Poem to First Love, puisi cinta dari Matthew Yeager
Pexels/Alexavier Rilee Cimafranca
To have been told “I love you” by you could well be, for me,
The highlight of my life, the best feeling, the best peak
On my feeling graph, in the way that the Chrysler building
Might not be the tallest building in the NY sky but is
The best, the most exquisitely spired
Itulah kumpulan puisi bahasa inggris tentang cinta yang mempunyai makna mendalam untuk pasangan. Semoga rekomendasi puisi-puisi ini bisa menjadi inspirasi tersendiri, ya.
