{"id":37882,"date":"2026-05-12T05:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.happywedding.app\/blog\/?p=37882"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:52:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:52:33","slug":"best-wedding-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happywedding.app\/blog\/best-wedding-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Wedding Poems: Sweet, Romantic & Emotional Verses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Looking to recite a poem to say during your wedding procession? Look at a few top picks for reference. Choose your style with loving, thoughtful pieces.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trying to surprise your partner<\/strong><\/a> during the wedding ceremony readings? A heartfelt speech is a solid choice, and you have probably worked hard on it for a week. But then you will feel awkward if it is too long, and conveying your feelings in a concise, brief paragraph is as bad as it sounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can instead choose to go for poetry. A well-written poem will convey and invoke multiple emotions while being short and leaving you a bit of room to say a few words along with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, there are three things you can do: you can do the lazy thing and just recite a poem you found on the internet. You can try to write a poem yourself without any help, which, although commendable, will be extremely hard to do. Or you can work smart and take a little bit of reference from some remarkable pieces by distinguished authors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have selected some of the sweetest poems (there was a poll) we could find for you to take a look. You can pick the one that resonates with you the most to recite, or you could take a few lines from multiple pieces and even write a few of your own along with it if you want to. Your partner deserves that effort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) \u2014 Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the ends of being and ideal grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love thee to the level of every day\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love thee freely, as men strive for right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love thee with the passion put to use<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my old griefs, and with my childhood\u2019s faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shall but love thee better after death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also Read<\/strong>: How to Write Wedding Vows That Truly Touch the Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Happy In Love \u2014 Shelagh Bullman<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow happy I am to be in love with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to scream from my lungs till I\u2019m breathless and blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want the world to know how excited I am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be in love with this gorgeous, perfect man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How lucky I am; I feel crazy inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m riding the big roller coaster of pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mind bombarded with thoughts of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this the beginning of something new?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How creative I am when it comes to romance,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you are my music, and I want to dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I arouse to your passion; you spice up my desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each pulse in my body burns through me like fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How smitten I am with those eyes of green<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That run through my heart like the deepest ravine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what of your smile, makes me weak at the knees,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweeps me off my feet like a powerful breeze.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Red, Red Rose \u2014\u00a0 Robert Burns<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

O my Luve is like a red, red rose<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s newly sprung in June;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O my Luve is like the melody<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s sweetly played in tune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So deep in luve am I;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I will luve thee still, my dear,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Till a\u2019 the seas gang dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Till a\u2019 the seas gang dry, my dear,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the rocks melt wi\u2019 the sun;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will love thee still, my dear,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the sands o\u2019 life shall run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And fare thee weel, my only luve!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And fare thee weel awhile!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I will come again, my luve,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though it were ten thousand mile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To My Dear and Loving Husband \u2014 Anne Bradstreet<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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If ever two were one, then surely we.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If ever wife was happy in a man,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compare with me, ye women, if you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or all the riches that the East doth hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My love is such that rivers cannot quench,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thy love is such I can no way repay;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then while we live, in love let\u2019s so persever,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That when we live no more, we may live ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also Read: Modern Wedding Vows Ideas That Will Melt Your Heart<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

To Love is Not to Possess \u2014 James Kavanaugh<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To love is not to possess,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To own or imprison,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor to lose one\u2019s self in another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love is to join and separate,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To walk alone and together,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find a laughing freedom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That lonely isolation does not permit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is finally to be able<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be who we really are<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No longer clinging in childish dependency<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor docilely living separate lives in silence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is to be perfectly one\u2019s self<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And perfectly joined in permanent commitment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To another\u2013and to one\u2019s inner self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love only endures when it moves like waves,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Receding and returning gently or passionately,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or moving lovingly like the tide<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the moon\u2019s own predictable harmony,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because finally, despite a child\u2019s scars<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or an adult\u2019s deepest wounds,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are openly free to be<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who they really are\u2013and always secretly were,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the very core of their being<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where true and lasting love can alone abide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She Walks in Beauty \u2014 Lord Byron<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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She walks in beauty, like the night<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And all that\u2019s best of dark and bright<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet in her aspect and her eyes;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus mellowed to that tender light<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One shade the more, one ray the less,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had half impaired the nameless grace<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which waves in every raven tress,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or softly lightens o\u2019er her face;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where thoughts serenely sweet express,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And on that cheek, and o\u2019er that brow,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But tell of days in goodness spent,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mind at peace with all below,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A heart whose love is innocent!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also Read: Songs for a Proposal Your Partner Will Always Remember<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Mad Girl’s Love Song \u2014 Sylvia Plath<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I lift my lids and all is born again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I think I made you up inside my head.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And arbitrary blackness gallops in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I think I made you up inside my head.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exit seraphim and Satan’s men:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I fancied you’d return the way you said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I grow old and I forget your name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I think I made you up inside my head.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least when spring comes they roar back again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I think I made you up inside my head.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unending Love \u2014 Rabindranath Tagore<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In life after life, in age after age, forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In life after life, in age after age, forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its ancient tale of being apart or together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You become an image of what is remembered forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the heart of time, love of one for another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The love of all man\u2019s days both past and forever:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the songs of every poet past and forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are some poems that we think capture the raw emotion of love very well. The different stages and challenges, the sense of completion when your partner stands beside you; the poems are an amalgamation of many feelings. Take a few lines from the one you like the most, and you are nearly set for the surprise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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