Poetry & Meaning
Funny Love Poems
Funny PoemsA Birthday
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a daïs of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Overview Short Summary
Rossetti’s poem is joyful and rich. It is not comic, but it gives readers a bright, celebratory love poem for cards and messages.
Use Case Best For
- Cute funny love poems: Sweet celebratory option.
- Funny love poems for cards: Works for a happy love message.
- Funny romantic poems: Adds a joyful romantic tone.
Emotional Effect Tone and Mood
Joyful, celebratory, rich, and romantic.
Poetry Craft Poetic Devices
- Simile: The heart is compared to a bird, tree, and shell.
- Imagery: Silk, doves, pomegranates, and peacocks create celebration.
- Repetition: “My heart is like” builds emotional rhythm.
Search Intent Keyword Connection
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How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Overview Short Summary
This famous love poem is sincere, but it belongs in a funny love collection as a classic option for readers who want to move from humor into real feeling.
Use Case Best For
- Funny love poems for him or her: Strong romantic option.
- Funny love poems for cards: Recognizable and heartfelt.
- Funny romantic poems: Balances the witty pieces.
Emotional Effect Tone and Mood
Devotional, romantic, elevated, and sincere.
Poetry Craft Poetic Devices
- Repetition: “I love thee” creates emphasis.
- Enumeration: The poem counts different ways of loving.
- Spiritual imagery: Love is connected with soul, faith, and eternity.
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (Sonnet 18)
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Overview Short Summary
This sonnet is not funny, but it is useful for funny love poem pages because readers often want at least one classic romantic poem for a card or caption.
Use Case Best For
- Funny love poems for cards: Classic romantic choice.
- Funny love poems for her: Works as a serious compliment.
- Funny romantic poems: Balances playful pieces with lasting love.
Emotional Effect Tone and Mood
Admiring, graceful, confident, and romantic.
Poetry Craft Poetic Devices
- Comparison: The beloved is compared with summer.
- Personification: Death and time are treated like active forces.
- Poetic immortality: The poem promises that verse will preserve love.
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Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116)
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixèd mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.
Overview Short Summary
This serious love poem adds a strong long-term relationship option for readers searching funny love poems for married couples or lasting love.
Use Case Best For
- Funny love poems for married couples: Strong lasting-love option.
- Funny love poems with meaning: Defines real love clearly.
- Funny love poems for cards: Useful for serious moments.
Emotional Effect Tone and Mood
Steady, formal, loyal, and timeless.
Poetry Craft Poetic Devices
- Metaphor: Love is an ever-fixed mark and guiding star.
- Personification: Time is treated as something love can resist.
- Argument: The sonnet defines what love is and is not.
Search Intent Keyword Connection
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Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,
Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms,
Live fairy-gifts fading away,
Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art,
Let thy loveliness fade as it will,
And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart
Would entwine itself verdantly still.
It is not while beauty and youth are thine own,
And thy cheeks profaned by a tear,
That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known,
To which time will but make thee more dear.
No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close;
As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turned when he rose.
Overview Short Summary
Moore’s poem is tender rather than funny, but it is useful for readers looking for love poems about real affection beyond appearance and age.
Use Case Best For
- Funny love poems for old couples: Love beyond youth and beauty.
- Funny love poems for married couples: Strong relationship message.
- Funny love poems with meaning: Deep and reassuring.
Emotional Effect Tone and Mood
Tender, loyal, reassuring, and graceful.
Poetry Craft Poetic Devices
- Contrast: Youthful beauty is compared with lasting love.
- Metaphor: Love clings like green life around ruin.
- Simile: The heart turns like a sunflower.
Search Intent Keyword Connection
Targets funny love poems for old couples, funny love poems for married couples, funny love poems with meaning, and funny romantic poems.
Reader Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best funny love poems that are not too cheesy?
Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130,” Sir John Suckling’s “Encouragements to a Lover,” Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” and Donne’s “The Sun Rising” are strong choices because they use wit rather than sugary praise.
Which funny love poem is best for her?
“My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun,” “The Baite,” “Song: To Celia,” and “A Birthday” all work well when the tone needs to be affectionate but still interesting.
Which funny love poem is best for him?
“Encouragements to a Lover,” “The Constant Lover,” “The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing,” and “Jenny Kiss’d Me” are good choices for him because they are short, witty, and easy to read aloud.
What is a good short funny love poem?
“Jenny Kiss’d Me,” “The Constant Lover,” “Love’s Secret,” and “Encouragements to a Lover” are all short enough for cards, messages, or classroom reading.
Why are some poems romantic instead of purely funny?
Older love poems do not always match modern greeting-card categories exactly. This collection balances witty, playful, and romantic poems so readers can choose the tone that fits their relationship.
Can these poems be used for cards and messages?
Yes. Shorter choices such as “Jenny Kiss’d Me,” “The Constant Lover,” “Song: To Celia,” and “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” work especially well for cards, messages, and captions.
