Soulmate Poems Throughout The Ages To Express Your Love

Soulmate poems: There are so many sayings for the visuals:

The eyes are the window to the soul. We can look into people’s eyes and see what they aren’t saying. A picture is worth a thousand words, most say. We don’t doubt that, but we say that words make people feel free. Words are liberating and encouraging and make people believe.

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With our selection of magnificent soulmate poems throughout different eras, you can read these to your soulmate. Whether your soulmate is your steadfast love, best friend, or sibling, a soulmate poem is guaranteed to make them swoon. You can even read these best soulmate poems to yourself to help you manifest your soulmate.

No matter the reason, reading soulmate poems from different cultures and eras will fill your spirit with magical love.

Ancient Soulmate Poems and Prose

The world may have been different in ancient times, but the overwhelming feeling of love was just the same!

Just reading the poems below will reveal how the love for our soulmates is still the same.

Chester Beatty Papyrus Volume I

This poem is from the Chester Beatty Papyrus Volume I, an ancient Egyptian love poem sourced from numerous papyrus manuscripts containing bible books, medical texts, spells, and love poems.

This poem has no credited author.

“My Heart Flutters Hastily”

My heart flutters hastily,

When I think of my love for you;

It lets me not act sensibly,

leaps from its place.

It lets me not put on a dress,

Nor wrap my scarf around me;

I put no paint upon my eyes,

I’m not even anointed.

“Don’t wait, go there,” says it to me,

As often as I think of him;

My heart, don’t act so stupidly,

Why do you play the fool?

Sit still, and the brother comes to you,

And many eyes as well.

Let not the people say of me:

“A woman fell through love!”

Be steady when you think of him,

My heart, do not flutter!

Song of Solomon

The Song of Solomon is known by two other names: Song of Songs and Canticle of Canticles.

Our favorite poetic verse from the Song of Solomon, taken from the King James Version, is here.

Chapter 8, verses 6 and 7

6 Set me as a seal on your heart,

as a seal on your arm;

for love is strong as death.

Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.

Its flashes are flashes of fire,

a very flame of Yahweh.

7 Many glasses of water can’t quench love,

neither can floods drown it.

Shang Ya!

Shang Ya! (meaning By Heaven! or Oh God!) is an anonymously written poem of the ancient Han Dynasty. Our version of Shang Ya! was taken from Arthur Waley’s translation.

“Shang Ya!”

I want to be your love forever and ever,

Without break or decay.

When the hills are all flat,

The rivers are all dry.

When it thunders in winter,

When it snows in summer

and when heaven and earth mingle,

Not till then will I part from you.

Medieval Times Soulmate Poems and Prose

The Medieval period, or Middle Ages, has a long history. In this section, we’ll consider soulmate poems from 1100 – 1450.

Francesco Petrarca

While not showcasing his birth of the Renaissance, our selection showcases his dramatic unrequited soulmate and his muse, Laura. Marion Shore translates this soulmate love poem.

For Love of Laura

I am to Love as a target to a dart,

as snow to blazing sun, as wax to flame,

as fog to the wind; and yet I call your name,

my voice has grown hoarse before your scornful heart.

With your eyes, you let the blow depart,

and I could find no shelter from their aim;

and in that single glance at once, there came

the sun, the flame, the wind, wherein I smart.

My thoughts are darts, and the sunlight is your face,

desire is a flame, and with these arms

Love inflames my heart and blinds my eyes;

and in that angel voice and gentle grace,

that blissful aura, cause of all my harms,

awaits the death to which my spirit flies.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Rumi

Some of his most renowned poems are about soulmates, or what we can interpret as being about soulmates. Kabir Helminski translates our choice.

“The Lord of States”

“I am only the house of your beloved,

not the beloved herself:

true love is for the treasure,

not for the coffer that contains it.”

The absolute beloved is that one who is unique,

who are your beginning and your end?

When you find that one,

you’ll no longer expect anything else:

That is both the manifest and the mystery.

That one is the lord of states of feeling,

dependent on none;

month and year are slaves to that moon.

When he bids the “state,”

it does His bidding;

when that one wills, bodies become spirits.

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

The Romance of the Rose is a soulmate poem between two soulmates who explore their love and sexuality. This translation is taken from F. S. Ellis.

The Romance of the Rose Part 7

Then Beauty gave

In secret that my heart did crave

The precious Rosebud, which I took

With rapture while being shook

With tremulous joy. Couched on the grass,

New sprung, we saw the moments pass

In soft content, our coverlet

Of fragrant rose leaves made, while met

Our lips in a fond embrace.

Renaissance Soulmate Poems and Prose

The Renaissance is most notable for its art, sonnets, and architecture. When we think of the Renaissance, we think of Michaelangelo, Botticelli, Shakespeare, and the beautiful paintings of Rubens.

Our selection from the Renaissance is some of the best soulmate poems that spark feelings of longing, beauty, and joy.

John Donne

c was a prominent metaphysical English Renaissance poet and scholar. He has written many ballads, sonnets, and poems about spiritual love, married life, divine creation, and more. His lyrics today are still sung and accompanied by instruments like the lute.

“Come Again!”

Come again!

Sweet love, doth now invite

Thy graces that refrain

To do me due delight,

To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die,

With thee again in sweetest sympathy.

Come again!

That I may cease to mourn

Through thy unkind disdain;

For now, left and forlorn

I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die

In deadly pain and endless misery.

Sir Phillip Sidney

Sir Phillip Sidney was another famed nobleman, scholar, and poet during the Elizabethan age. His most famous work is Astrophil and Stella, the poetic gem we chose.

“Astrophil and Stella 1”

Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,

That she, dear she, might take some pleasure in my pain—

Charm might cause her to read, and reading might make her know,

Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain—

I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe;

Studying inventions fine her wits to entertain,

Oft turning others’ leaves to see if thence would flow

Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburned brain.

But words came halting forth, wanting invention’s stay;

The invention, Nature’s child, fled step-dame Study’s blows;

And others’ feet still seemed but strangers in my way.

Thus great with a child to speak and helpless in my throes,

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,

“Fool,” said my Muse, “look in thy heart and write.”

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s “Song: to Celia” is a soulmate poem, a song in the form of a love letter that describes a love that transcends boundaries and standard expectations.

“Song: to Celia”

Come, my Celia, let us prove,

While we can, the sports of love;

Time will not be ours forever;

He at length our good will sever.

Spend not then his gifts in vain.

Suns that set may rise again;

But if once we lose this light,

‘Tis with us perpetual night.

Why should we defer our joys?

Fame and rumor are but toys.

Cannot we delude the eyes?

Of a few poor household spies,

Or his easier ears beguile,

So removed by our wile?

‘Tis no sin love’s fruit to steal;

But the sweet thefts to reveal,

To be taken, to be seen,

These have crimes accounted been.

Romantic Movement Soulmate Poems and Prose

Next up is the Romantic Movement.

Romanticism birthed a powerful surge of literature, arts, and theater overwhelmed with emotion. Not just love but anger, pain, joy, existential thoughts, melancholy, etc. Emotion, imagination, and moods became the central theme — poems about transcendental love were rampant!

Robert Burns

This soulmate sonnet from Robert Burns describes how deep and prominent his love for his soul mate is.

“A Red, Red Rose”

O my Luve is like a red, red rose

   That’s newly sprung in June;

O my Luve is like the melody

   That’s sweetly played in tune.

So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

   So deep in luve am I;

And I will love thee still, my dear,

   Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

   And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;

I will love thee still, my dear,

   While the sands of life shall run.

And fare thee well, my only love!

   And fare thee weel awhile!

I will come again, my love,

   Though it were ten thousand miles.

Lord Byron

Lord Byron, whose real name is George Gordon, was a notorious and famed English Romantic poet. He wrote odes, sonnets, lyrics, and dramas that explore sexuality, dreams, fears, thoughts, and freedom.

“She Walks in Beauty”

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o’er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express,

How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

Symbolist and Surrealist Soulmate Poems and Prose

The Symbolist and Surrealist movements have been one of the most influential literary and artistic movements to impact modern pop culture. With Symbolism being the father of Surrealism, both attempted to transcend the senses and perceptions we’re limited by because of our human physical limitations.

This has opened doors to experimental styles and groundbreaking artistic expression.

Paul Verlaine

Ironically, this Verlaine poem shines exceptionally bright, expressing and explaining the subtlety of love. Norman R. Shapiro translates this soulmate poem.

“In Muted Tone”

Gently, let us steep our love

In the deep silence, thus,

Branches arching high above

Twine their shadows over us.

Let us blend our souls as one,

Hearts’ and senses’ ecstasies,

Evergreen, in unison

With the pines’ vague lethargies.

Dim your eyes and, heart at rest,

Freed from all futile endeavors,

Arms crossed on your slumbering breast,

Banish vain desire forever.

Let us yield then, you and I,

To the waftings, calm and sweet,

As their breeze-blown lullaby

Sways the gold grass at your feet.

And, when night begins to fall

From the black oaks, darkening,

In the nightingale’s soft call

Our despair will, solemn, sing.

Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon was a significant figure in the Surrealist movement. This poem is written about his true love.

Hubert Clolus translates the soulmate poem we’ve chosen today.

“We Will Sleep Together”

Be it Sunday or Monday

Evening or morning, midnight, midday

In hell or paradise

Loves resemble loves

It was yesterday that I told you:

“We will sleep together.”

It was yesterday, and it is now tomorrow

You are the only path left for me

I’ve placed my heart between your hands

With yours, how it beats the amble

The whole human time it has left

We will sleep together

My love, what has been, will be

The sky is over us like a bedsheet

I’ve enclosed my arms around you

And I love you so much that I tremble

For as long as you will want

We will sleep together

André Breton

Andre Breton is credited as the founder and creator of the Surrealism movement. Two of his well-known works dealt with passionate soul mate love, Nadja and Mad Love. These works describe the feeling of his true love, mad obsession, and his ideal dream girl.

Our excerpt is from Mad Love and translated by Mary Ann Caws.

Excerpt from Mad Love, page 83

My love for you has only increased since the first day: under ·

the imperial fig tree trembles and laughs in the sparks of all its

daily forges. Because you are unique, you can’t help but always be, another you for me. Across the diversity of this icon-

receivable flowers over there, it is you changing whom

I love being in a red blouse, naked, in a gray blouse

Modernist Soulmate Poems and Prose

The Modernist Movement in literature broke away from traditional narrative rules. The Modernist Movement carried on styles from Surrealism like absurdity, experimenting, individualism, and exploring the subconscious through everyday experiences. Submovements came about like Imagism.

The most prolific authors during this era were James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolfe, and Hilda Doolittle.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay is a profound lyricist. This soulmate poem we’ve picked describes her inescapable destiny with her lover.

“When We Are Old”

When we are old and these rejoicing veins

Are frosty channels to a muted stream,

And out of all our burning, their remains

No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dreams,

This be our solace: that it was not said

When we were young and warm and in our prime,

Upon our couch, we lay as lie the dead,

Sleeping away the unreturning time.

O sweet, O heavy-lidded, O my love,

When morning strikes her spear upon the land,

And we must rise and arm us and reprove

The brazen daylight, with a steady hand,

Be not discountenanced if the knowing know

We rose from rapture but an hour ago.

Richard Aldington

This poem from Aldington shows how out of reach and far away his soulmate lives. He writes about how excruciating it is to be from his forever true love.

“Images”

Through the dark pine trunks

Silver and yellow gleam the clouds

And the sun;

The sea is faint purple.

My love, my love, I shall never reach you.

You are beautiful

As a straight red fox-glove

Among green plants;

I stretched out my hand to caress you:

The envious nettles blister it.

I spent hours this morning.

Seeking in the brook

For a clear pebble

To remind me of your eyes.

And all the sleepless hours of the night

I think of you.

Your kisses are poignant,

Ah! why must I leave you?

Here above, I scribble and re-scribble

The words of a long-dead Greek Poet:

“Love, thou art terrible,

Ah, Love, thou are bitter-sweet!”

Contemporary Soulmate Poems and Prose

The Contemporary era is the era of the 20th and 21st centuries. We see prolific grand names in these modern times and obscure gems, the diamonds in the rough — lost in the dust of their more famous contemporaries. In this final portion of soulmate poems throughout different periods and movements, we focus on some obscure poets who you might have never heard of!

Mazowea Yana Tabu

This gem of a poem has no credited author. Initially written in Swahili, it’s sourced from the anthology Treasury of African Love, compiled and translated by Nicholas Awde. In this heart-wrenching poem, the author sings about their true soulmate and loving their eternal embrace until their lover leaves, leaving them to wait for their soulmate finally to return.

“Mazoea Yana Tabu (What Once We Had)”

What once we had is now a trial

Our souls had fused

But now it is such torture –

See what torture – to part.

Can you ever see why

Do we do one another harm?

All night long, I toss and turn

Unable to sit for visions of you

Slowly going out of my mind

I call out to you by name

But no – it’s only your shadow

And you are no longer mine alone.

The heat of our tongues

Which we so exchanged –

I cannot say another word!

Nor of all that we did together

Such things of wonder now

The like I’ve not seen since.

Like twins inseparable

We move as one body –

O my love, now you’ve left me

And now I’ve lost my life.

Emily Eclogue

This obscure poet has only this one poem published online. Not much is known about the author, but we can tell that their writing is lively, relatable, and one soulmate poem to grasp at our hearts.

“A Short Soulmate Poem”

A soulmate is a lover first

then perhaps a friend

and then, at times, maybe a stranger

and or, at other times, an enemy,

but then again, a friend,

and always there, family,

if not in blood, then in the soul,

always by your side.

Lika Mizukoshi

Lika Mizukoshi is a poet from the Philippines.

Her published work is small and not extensive, yet the feeling and passion she conveys in her words are significant and impactful. In this poem, her soulmate lives far from her emotionally.

“A Letter To My Soulmate”

Dear Soulmate

I’m pretty sure we’ve crossed paths before, just unassured of the spot

But I know you’ve already forgotten

How I look or how my name sounds like

Just another wallflower within your area of sight

Dear Soulmate

It’s pretty weird for me to have you here as well

A bit restless. I don’t know if you can tell

After being spun around the other way

By you who caught me in his arms and let me stay

Dear Soulmate

It almost feels like I have a debt to pay

Only to be fixed by paying attention to you

One burden I don’t find myself to be in dismay

For I know that somehow, you carry the same load too

Dear Soulmate,

I am not in love with you; let’s make that clear

I have learned not to after all these years

From many, a chance encounter broken by this mere

Emotional “commitment” shrouded in unvoiced fear

See, I can not be caught in the teeth of romance

For it has bitten me once, let’s not give it another chance

to ruin something good, I know you’d understand

So let me keep my distance before it catches me with its glance.

Dear Soulmate,

I hope you feel the same.

As I write to you, it may sound insane

Let me explain before things turn twisted

Why can’t I let you be one of them in the end?

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