Home » More » Love » Love Quotes & Greetings E.E. Cummings Love Poems: 15 Poems For The Outright Romantic by Rohit Garoo August 29, 2016“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”If you’re new to the world of fine poetry, you need to read a couple of EE Cummings love poems to refine your taste. Nothing beats the pinings of this free liberal soul, who’s written some of the best latter day poetry know to our generations.Edward Estlin Cummings is undoubtedly one of the most well-known and greatest poets of the 21st century. He has written more than 2000 poems in his lifetime, and is known for his unique style of excluding logical punctuations, using allegories, and writing free verse poems. One could even see the usage of predominantly lower-case letters in the poems he wrote, and he would often write his name as ‘ee cummings’ rather than the traditional ‘E.E. Cummings’. Most of his poems focused on love and relationships are truly interesting.We have compiled some of the best EE Cummings love poems for you!Read and share. Here we go.1. I Carry Your HeartI carry your heart 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) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is youHere 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 soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apartI carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)This piece is arguably the most popular of all EE Cummings love poems. It talks about deep profound true love. The poem has all the words to express one’s abject love to a person who has become the centre of your attention with your world revolving around that one person.2. Love Is A PlaceLove is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all placesyes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worldsHere is one of EE Cummings love poems which is all about the essence of love and its all so great power. He has used an analogy of comparing love to a place – a place that brings peace and happiness to the heart of the one who visits it. It will also bring a change in the person since he would himself/herself would strive to make the world a loving place.[Read More: Dark Love Poems ]3. Nothing False And Possible Is LoveNothing false and possible is love (who’s imagined, therefore is limitless) love’s to giving as to keeping’s give; as yes is to if, love is to yesmust’s a schoolroom in the month of may: life’s the deathboard where all now turns when (love’s a universe beyond obey or command,reality or un-)proudly depths above why’s first because (faith’s last doubt and humbly heights below) kneeling, we-true lovers-pray that us will ourselves continue to outgrowall whose mosts if you have known and i’ve only we our least begin to guess.Through this love poem, EE Cummings communicates the ideology that love is true and a path that is not easy. In other words, it is staying committed to your love and thoughts when the whole world is against you. After all, this is the challenge which many lovers have always faced.4. Speaking Of Love (of… (LV)speaking of love(of which Who knows the meaning;or how dreaming becomesif your heart’s mind)i guess a grassblade Thinks beyond or around(as poems aremade)Our picking it. this caress that laugh both quickly signify life’s only half(throughdeep weather then or none let’s feel all)mind in mind flesh In flesh succeeding disappearIt is a short EE Cummings love poem that gives a snapshot of the various meanings of love. Here he compares love to the dreams of the heart, which it sees in its ‘mind’. Overall, the poem talks about the sensation of love, and how it stimulates thoughts, which are introspective in way that they help us have a realization of a sort.5. You Being In Love…you being in love will tell who softly asks in love,am i separated from your body smile brain hands merely to become the jumping puppets of a dream? oh i mean: entirely having in my careful how careful arms created this at length inexcusable, this inexplicable pleasure-you go from several persons: believe me that strangers arrive when i have kissed you into a memory slowly, oh seriously -that since and if you disappearsolemnly myselves ask “life, the question how do i drink dream smileand how do i prefer this face to another and why do i weep eat sleep-what does the whole intend” they wonder. oh and they cry “to be, being, that i am alive this absurd fraction in its lowest terms with everything cancelled but shadows -what does it all come down to? love? Love if you like and i like,for the reason that i hate people and lean out of this window is love,love and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason that i do not fall into this street is love.”It is one of EE Cummings love poems written in active voice that shares the innate feelings of a person who is madly in love with someone. It tells about all the thoughts that come in this love-bird’s mind, and how he/she makes certain interpretations of them eventually ascribing it all to the beloved whose love has brought that change.[Read More: Cute Love Poems ]6. Your Little Voice…your little voice Over the wires came leaping and i felt suddenly dizzy With the jostling and shouting of merry flowers wee skipping high-heeled flames courtesied before my eyes or twinkling over to my side Looked up with impertinently exquisite faces floating hands were laid upon me I was whirled and tossed into delicious dancing up Up with the pale important stars and the Humorous moon dear girl How i was crazy how i cried when i heard over time and tide and death leaping Sweetly your voiceThis one is a typical EE Cummings love poem with his signature style of leaving-out all the punctuation. This poem is also one of his least complex ones. As one deciphers from it, it is about a man sharing his amorous thoughts every time he hears the voice of his lady-love. He shares how elated and ecstatic he feels when he hears his woman’s voice.7. My Lovemy love thy hair is one kingdom the king whereof is darkness thy forehead is a flight of flowers thy head is a quick forest filled with sleeping birds thy breasts are swarms of white bees upon the bough of thy body thy body to me is April in those armpits is the approach of spring thy thighs are white horses yoked to a chariot of kings they are the striking of a good minstrel between them is always a pleasant song my love thy head is a casket of the cool jewel of thy mind the hair of thy head is one warrior innocent of defeat thy hair upon thy shoulders is an army with victory and with trumpets thy legs are the trees of dreaming whose fruit is the very eatage of forgetfulness thy lips are satraps in scarlet in whose kiss is the combinings of kings thy wrists are holy which are the keepers of the keys of thy blood thy feet upon thy ankles are flowers in vases of silver in thy beauty is the dilemma of flutes thy eyes are the betrayal of bells comprehended through incense.In this EE Cummings love poem, we see a fictional man describing the woman he loves dearly. The fictional lover is so enchanted by the way his lady looks that he has drawn comparison with beautiful and superior things found in this world. This is one that you can actually share with the woman you love. Looking for a unisex poem instead? Read the next one.8. I Have Found What You Are Likei have found what you are like the rain, (Who feathers frightened fields with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields easily the pale club of the wind and swirled justly souls of flower strike the air in utterable coolness deeds of green thrilling light with thinned newfragile yellows lurch and.press -in the woods which stutter and sing And the coolness of your smile is stirring of birds between my arms;but i should rather than anything have(almost when hugeness will shut quietly)almost, your kissThis one is on the similar lines as the previous one, and can be used to describe the one you love. The words of both these EE Cummings love poems share the lover’s perception of all the unique traits of the beloved that he/she discovered as the relationship progressed. These were the attributes that impressed the fictional lover in the first place and now he/he describes it through the poem.[Read More: Lil Wayne Love Quotes ]9. It May Not Always Be Soit may not always be so;and i say that if your lips,which i have loved,should touch another’s,and your dear strong fingers clutch his heart,as mine in time not far away; if on another’s face your sweet hair lay in such a silence as i know,or such great writhing words as,uttering overmuch, stand helplessly before the spirit at bay; if this should be,i say if this should be- you of my heart,send me a little word; that i may go unto him,and take his hands, saying,Accept all happiness from me. Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.This one is a bit melancholic, and talks about a stage in a relationship where the two lovers are at the verge of breaking-up. At this point, the man shares with his lover this fear but adds that he will continue to admire his lady-love, and would consider her new beau a fortunate one. It’s one of the rarer EE Cummings love poems that are of a sadder tone, of being at the brink of losing your love, and how it would feel.10. May My Heart Always Be Open To Little…may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are oldmay my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it’s sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not youngand may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there’s never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smileIt is a love poem by EE Cummings that conveys the thoughts of person who is deeply in love, and would like to stay so for as long as possible. We see that the lover wishes to keep his heart open and his mind clear so that he can continue to love the way he can right now.11. In Time Of DaffodilsIn time of daffodils (who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking is to dream, remember so(forgetting seem) in time of roses(who amaze our now and here with paradise) forgetting if,remember yes in time of all sweet things beyond whatever mind may comprehend, remember seek(forgetting find) and in a mystery to be (when time from time shall set us free) forgetting me,remember meHere is a love poem to be shared with a beloved. EE Cummings draws comparison with flowers to the various meanings and significances they hold. He then requests the reader (presumably the love interest) to keep those flowers in mind and remember all the things that are associated with it; things that are affiliated to love.[Read More: Hard Love Quotes ]12. Love Is More Thicker Than ForgetLove is more thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to failIt’s most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the seaLove is more always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less litter than forgiveIt’s most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the skyAnother of the classic EE Cummings love poems with no punctuation. Here we see the poet comparing love to various things commonly found in the world. Overall, it is a love poem that talks about the power of love, and how it can persevere even in the most difficult of times.13. 2 Little Whos2 little whos (he and she) under are this wonderful tree smiling stand (all realms of where and when beyond) now and here (far from a grown -up i&you- ful world of known) who and who (2 little arms and over them this aflame with dreams incredible is)It is an adorable love poem about describing two young lovers who are embracing each other. The poet describes the lovers and their surroundings by making a connection between them through the use of some lovely words.14. In The RainIn the rain- darkness, the sunset being sheathed i sit and think of you the holy city which is your face your little cheeks the streets of smiles your eyes half- thrush half-angel and your drowsy lips where float flowers of kissand there is the sweet shy pirouette your hair and then your dancesong soul.rarely-beloved a single star is uttered,and i think of youThis EE Cummings love poem shares the thought of a man thinking of a woman he loves while gazing outside the window one rainy evening. The man then goes on to think about all those attributes of hers that make him feel attracted towards her.15. It Is At Moments After I Have DreamedIt is at moments after i have dreamed of the rare entertainment of your eyes, when(being fool to fancy)i have deemed with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise; at moments when the glassy darkness holdsthe genuine apparition of your smile (it was through tears always)and silence moulds such strangeness as was mine a little while;moments when my once more illustrious arms are filled with fascination, when my breast wears the intolerant brightness of your charms:one pierced moment whiter than the rest– turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.[Read More: Valentine Love Poems]When you are madly in love, even your dreams become a reflection of the reality. This poem is exactly about that point, and how a thin line then differentiates dreams from reality. It is one of the most interesting EE Cummings love poems of all times.So those were some romantic EE Cummings love poems. Hope you like reading them. 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