“When two souls fall in love, there is nothing else but the yearning to be close to the other. It is hard to be away from the person that you love. You miss them terribly and long to be in their presence. You feel overwhelmed with joy once you are finally reunited with your love one or your significant other again at last. The presence is felt through a held hand, a voice heard and the sight of a smile. Even through a simple touch. Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or of distance. They only know it feels right to be with one another. This is the reason why you miss someone so much when they are not around. Your soul feels their absence- it does not realize that the separation is temporary.” Beautiful quote about love by Lang Leav.

I decided to spend this morning reading my favorite love sonnets - oldies but also goodies. These poems will stay with you through it all - puppy love, first love, first heart ache, and so much more. It feels really good to stop for a moment just to celebrate love. Please read through these three love sonnets that I have read and now cannot seem to get enough of. They are so deep, romantic and heart warming. These love poems are so beautifully written. Just by reading them, I can tell that the poets who wrote these poems pour their hearts and souls into their writing. I hope that these three poems bring a smile to your face and that they bring you both happiness and joy.

#1. How do I love thee?” (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and the height that my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and of ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s most quiet need, by the bright sun and I love thee by candlelight. I love thee freely, just as men strive for their rights. I love thee purely, as they slowly turn from praise. I love thee with the deep, intense passion which is often put to use in my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with an undying love that I seemed to lose with my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, smiles, the tears, of all my life; and, if God so,chooses, I shall but love thee even more than I do now after my death.”

#2. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare.

“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 way too often is his bright, shiny golden complexion dimm’d; and every fair from fair sometimes declines, by chance or by nature’s changing course untrimmed; but thy eternal summer shall not fade, nor lose the 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.”

#3. “I carry your heart with me (Carry it in)” by E.E Cummings.

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true love) and it’s You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you. Here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud, and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that is keeping the stars apart, I carry your heart (I carry it deep within my heart).”