Are you really in love (signs include these!) and want to tell your crush as romantically as possible? Maybe you are secretly in love or have a secret affair that is just growing into something more. Or have you and your partner been together for a long time and you want to surprise your sweetheart and tell him how much you love him? Then we have just the thing for you here: A few wonderful love poems that perfectly express your feelings.

In the multimedia age, in which almost everyone has a smartphone, computer and tablet, love poems seem almost outdated. But once you have gotten yourself into the moving texts of famous poets such as Theodor Storm, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Rainer Maria Rilke, you will find it difficult to resist the magic of love poetry: a beautiful love poem has its very own power.

Love poems for him or just for you

Of course, which love poem touches you at the moment depends on how you are feeling, in which life and, above all, love situation you are right now: If you are longing for an unfulfilled love, you will find yourself in a completely different love poem than someone who has just fallen in love. Often a love poem can also be a way to convey a message, to reveal feelings, to pour out one's own heart. But then multimedia is out of the question: A love poem also deserves an adequate environment, so it should be handwritten and beautifully designed - after all, a love poem is something different than a WhatsApp message!

If you're still looking for the right love poem, whether it's to daydream, sink into, or send to someone (why should only men court women, it can also work the other way around!), we've got you covered a small but fine selection of particularly beautiful love poems. Maybe they will inspire you to write a poem yourself!

These are the 8 most beautiful love poems

1. Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857): "Happiness"

The first love poem is particularly beautiful for couples who have just fallen in love and, admittedly, a bit cheesy. Hide it secretly under his pillow or in his jacket pocket. You will see: he will definitely be happy about it and will show you that too!

"How my soul rejoices And sings within itself! I can hardly hide it. I'm so happy.

All around people turn and speak shyly, I can't understand anything, so happily scattered. -

The room is getting too narrow, How glitters the field, The valleys are full of shimmer, The world is wide and glorious!

Pressed joy breaks through bolt and lock, away over the heath! Ah, if only I had a horse! -

And I ask and ponder, How is it happening to me?: - My sweetheart, I shall see that today."

2. Heiner Müller (1929-1995): "I can't lay the world at your feet"

We like this love poem so much because it is simply honest. Who says love poetry always has to be cheesy?

"I can't put the world at your feet. It doesn't belong to me.

I won't pluck a star for you: I have no money for flowers and no time to write verses just for you: My life will be so and so too short for a whole. If I tell you: I will do anything for you, I will tell you a lie. (You know it) I love you with all my love.”

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3. Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914): "It is night"

"It's night, and my heart comes to you, can't stand it, can't bear it with me anymore.

Lies on your chest like a stone, sinks in, into yours.

Only there, only there does it come to rest, lying on the ground of its eternal you.”

4. Novalis (1772-1801): "I see you..."

The romantics just knew how to get to the heart of a love poem in an apt and poetic way...

"I see you in a thousand images, Maria, sweetly expressed, But none of them can describe you, How my soul beholds you. I only know that since then the turmoil of the world has vanished from me like a dream, and an indescribably sweet sky is in my heart forever."

5. Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945): "Senna Hoy"

"When you speak, my colorful heart wakes up.

All birds practice On your lips.

Ever blue your voice strews across the road;

Where you tell, there will be heaven.

Your words are formed from song I mourn when you are silent.

Singing hangs on you everywhere - How do you like to dream?"

6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): "Closeness to the beloved"

If there was anyone who was an expert on love poetry, it was surely good old Goethe. In any case, this love poem leaves no questions unanswered:

"I think of you when the shimmer of the sun shines on me from the sea; I think of you when the moon's flickering paints itself in fountains. I see you when the dust rises on the distant road; In the deep of night, when the wanderer trembles on the narrow path. I hear you when the wave rises there with a dull roar. In the quiet grove I often go to listen, When all is silent. I am with you, no matter how far away you are, you are close to me! The sun is going down, soon the stars will shine. Oh, were you there!”

7. William Shakespeare (1564-1616): passage from Hamlet

"Doubt about the clarity of the sun, Doubt about the light of the stars, Doubt whether truth can lie, Only not about my love."

8. Matthias Claudius (1740-1815): "Love"

“Love inhibits nothing; she knows neither door nor bolt And penetrates through everything; She is without beginning, forever beating her wings And beating them forever."

Do you have a love poem that is your absolute favourite? Incidentally, beautiful song lyrics can also be wonderfully inspiring and get to the heart of your feelings.