The Beautiful Night – Goethe

I must abandon the hut
where my beloved lives,
and with a stealthy step
I wander through the arid jungle;
the moon shines in the fronds,
breathes a soft breeze,
and the birch, swinging,
To her he raises his fragrance.
How coolness pleases me
of the beautiful summer night!
How good it feels here
what fills us with joy!
Work is hard to say!…
And yet I would give
I a thousand nights like this
for one with my friend.

Eternal love – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)

The sun may be clouded forever;
the sea can dry up in an instant;
the axis of the earth could break
like a weak glass.
Everything will happen! May death
cover me with its funereal crepe;
but it can never go out in me
the flame of your love.

True love gives us strength to fight against adversity and catastrophes, and for Bécquer it transcends even death.

That’s all I have to bring today – Emily Dickinson

This is all I have to bring today—
this and my heart, too—
this and my heart and all the fields
and all the vast meadows.
Make sure you count correctly—lest someone
can check the account
this and my heart and all the bees
that live in clover.

According to the famous Irish poet, the most valuable thing we can offer is not material possessions, but our hearts, our love, and the beauty of the natural world around us.

As if every kiss- Fernando Pessoa

As if every kiss
Out of farewell,
My Chloe, let’s kiss, loving.
Maybe it’s our turn
On the shoulder the hand that calls
To the boat that does not come but empty;
And that in the same beam
Ties what we were to each other
And the alien universal sum of life.

Pessoa reminds us in this poem of the transience of love and the inevitability of separation, and invites us to live love fully, valuing each moment as if it could be the last.

It burns in your eyes – Antonio Machado

A mystery burns in your eyes, virgin
elusive and companion.
I don’t know if the fire is hate or love
inexhaustible of your black ally.
You will go with me as long as I cast a shadow
my body and left my sandal sandal.
-Are you thirst or water in my path?-
Tell me, elusive virgin and companion.

A love poem in which, through beautiful metaphors, Machado tells us about passion, the difficulty of meeting the desired person and living in the moment while being aware of the transience of life. Also about the duality in love, how it drives us and at the same time makes us want more.

Sonnet XVIII – William Shakespeare

Could I compare you to a summer day?
You are more beautiful and more temperate.
Rude winds shake the buds of May
and summer ends without delay.

Sometimes the sun shines too hot
and others, its golden presence fades.
Sometimes beauty declines from its state
by chance or by the uncontrolled course of nature.

But your eternal summer will not die
nor will your beauty abandon you,
nor will death boast of having given you shade
because in eternal lines, in the face of time, you will endure.

As long as there is a man or eyes that see,
My verses will live and give you life.

Sonnet XVIII is one of Shakespeare’s most famous and beloved sonnets about love and explores the themes of beauty, the passage of time, and the power of poetry to immortalize love.

How I Love You – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love you? Let me count the ways.
I love you to the depth, width and height.
My soul can reach, when it feels out of sight
for the ends of being and ideal grace.