There’s something undeniably magical about gazing at the night sky. The endless expanse of stars reminds us of the vastness of the universe, a mystery that feels as infinite as true love.
Love, much like the cosmos, often defies explanation—it’s a shared experience that we feel deeply, yet sometimes struggle to put into words. That’s where the art of a love poem comes in.
Love Written in the Stars
The best poems capture the wonder of human emotions, translating the intangible into something beautiful and heartfelt.
Poems make a beautiful inclusion in gift cards – especially for Valentine’s Day or special anniversaries. And when you can’t quite find the words to convey the depth of emotion you feel – drawing on the parallel between the universe and eternal love is a powerful way to express what’s in your heart.
Join me in this enchanting world of star poems with starry verses perfect for sharing your feelings, evoking both the magic of the cosmos and the warmth of your bond with your lover.
Charming short poems and quotes with celestial imagery
These are some examples of the most popular short poems and quotes that contain imagery of real stars as well as mirror the cosmic beauty of stars with the essence of love.
Charming Short Poems Featuring Celestial Imagery and Love
It is so often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars. – Richard Paul Evans
Meet me
where the falling stars live.
I will wait for you
day and night.
– Alexandra Vasilu
Hug me like the night holds the moon. – Alexandra Vasilu
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. – Carl Sagan
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. – Daisaku Ikeda
The brightest stars burn the fastest, so we must love them while we can. – Anna Todd
Beneath the stars, our whispers stray,
A love that lights the Milky Way.
Your love’s a star, a steady guide,
In endless skies where dreams reside.
Among the stars, I find my place,
In your embrace, celestial grace.
In the deep of night, where black holes lie,
A love pulls close, no matter how high.
Like gravity’s force, it swallows the light,
Leaving only hearts in endless flight.
Two hearts alight in cosmic streams,
Love woven from eternal dreams.
Beneath the stars, a luminous dance,
Two hearts entwined in cosmic chance.
The night hums soft, a timeless tune,
Love glowing bright beneath the moon.
Short Love Poems About Stars by Atticus Poetry
Thanks to social media, poetry is able to be shared far and wide (for free!) and we can discover amazing talent in writing poems – new and old.
Atticus Poetry – an anonymous poet is one such writer that I (and many others) found thanks to the power of socials. And look, I’m not a poetry expert but I think his work is so popular because it covers tales of love, loss and nature.
He powerfully captures the emotional depth and complexities of modern relationships and times – resonating with us all.
I’ve compiled some of my favourite Atticus verses below with the theme of stars, the universe and love. I highly recommend checking out his Instagram @atticuspoetry for an aesthetically pleasing and soothing exploration of his artistry.
Chase your stars fool – life is short. – Atticus
I want to know every part of you,
every scar,
every bruise,
I want to trace the map of you,
my fingers a compass,
your freckles the constellations
which in my heart I will chart
so when I close my eyes
I’ll have you in my stars forever.
– Atticus
She was incandescently beautiful
and beauty was the least of her.
– Atticus
There will always be magic in the world
as long as there are
fireflies
shooting stars
and love
in a little girl’s heart.
I left my heart in Paris
in the forgetful fingers
of a Parisian princess.
I’m sure it will be gone by the time I return
left in a café somewhere
lost amongst empty glasses of champagne
cigarettes burning in ashtrays
and the cologne of a tall painter
with bad hair and interesting ideas
lingering on the still, smoky air
– Atticus
“Do you hear that?”
he said,
“Listen close
the universe is singing to us
in shooting stars
daring us to fall in love.”
– Atticus
I didn’t see her beauty
I felt it
as plainly as the sun.
– Atticus
The truth is –
magic live in all of us
who choose to look for it.
– Atticus
How beautiful you are – a tapestry of stars. – Atticus
She was
that wild thing
that I loved.
My dark between the stars.
– Atticus
Give like the sun and the whole world grows tall. – Atticus
She was the finest arranged stardust I’d ever stumbled across. – Atticus
A sky full of stars and he was staring at her. – Atticus
In the light of love the darkness of doubt and fear dissolve
and the soul is bathed in the radiant warm rays of hope.
– Atticus
To love is to surrender
your heart into another’s hands
while praying to the stars
that they will be more gentle this time.
– Atticus
Free Printable Mystical Feminine Colouring Pages
If you love stars, moon phases, and all things mystical, you’ll adore these free printable colouring pages filled with cosmic vibes and magical details. Perfect for finding mindful moments, tuning into your intuition, and unwinding—one starry page at a time.
Famous Poems About Love and Celestial Bodies
Even when they die – the light from distant stars is still seen for thousands of years.
I think this is why the wonder and mystery of stars and the universe makes such a worthy comparison for the enduring nature of love. Stars and love are both popular themes with famous poetry throughout history as well as modern poets.
There’s so much we can’t see and explain away in our universe – but there’s no denying its profound and powerful effects.
Some of these poems below don’t fall into the ‘short’ category, but you can select an impactful verse or passage if you don’t wish to use the entire piece.
All poems are credited to their respective artists and I have linked excerpts to the full version where applicable.
Enchanting Quotes About Love and the Cosmos
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- Stars – A. E. Housman
- The Lovers – Rainer Maria Rilke
- The More Loving One – W. H. Auden
- Stars – Sara Teasdale
- Bright Star – John Keats
- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star – Jane Taylor
- Hey Moon (song) – John Maus
- I Am The Moon And You Are The Man On Me – Claire Askew
- Annabel Lee – Edgar Allan Poe
- To The Moon – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Our Share Of Night To Bear – Emily Dickinson
- Stars – Emily Brontë
- My Guiding Light – Ron Orcutt
- One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII – Pablo Neruda
- Stars, Songs, Faces – Carl Sandburg
- She Walks In Beauty – Lord Byron
- When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer – Walt Whitman
Stars
Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea,
And still the sea is salt.
– A. E. Housman
The Lovers
See how in their veins all becomes spirit;
into each other they mature and grow.
Like axles, their forms tremblingly orbit,
round which it whirls, bewitching and aglow.
Thirsters, and they receive drink,
watchers, and see: they receive sight.
Let them into one another sink
so as to endure each other outright.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
The More Loving One
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
– W. H. Auden
Stars
Alone in the night
On a dark hill
With pines around me
Spicy and still,
And a heaven full of stars
Over my head
White and topaz
And misty red;
Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
The aeons
Cannot vex or tire;
Up the dome of heaven
Like a great hill
I watch them marching
Stately and still.
And I know that I
Am honored to be
Witness
Of so much majesty.
– Sara Teasdale
Bright Star
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
– John Keats
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
When the blazing sun is set,
And the grass with dew is wet,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the traveler in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see where to go
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye
Till the sun is in the sky.
As your bright and tiny spark
Lights the traveler in the dark,
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
– Jane Taylor
Hey Moon (lyrics)
I know it’s been so long
Since we saw each other last
I’m sure we’ll find some way
To make the time pass
Hey moon, it’s just you and me tonight
Everyone else is asleep
Hey moon, if I was to fall
I won’t fall so deep
Though I doubt I’m gonna
You can wake me up if you wanna
And your pale, round face
Makes me feel at home in any place…
– John Maus
I Am The Moon And You Are The Man On Me (excerpt)
…Tonight, I am white and full.
You are the man on me,
and I am the moon.
– Claire Askew
Annabel Lee (excerpt)
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
– Edgar Allan Poe
To The Moon
I
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth, —
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
II
Thou chosen sister of the Spirit,
That gazes on thee till in thee it pities …
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stars (excerpt)
Ah! why, because the dazzling sun
Restored our Earth to joy,
Have you departed, every one,
And left a desert sky?
All through the night, your glorious eyes
Were gazing down in mine,
And, with a full heart’s thankful sighs,
I blessed that watch divine.
I was at peace, and drank your beams
As they were life to me;
And revelled in my changeful dreams,
Like petrel on the sea.
Thought followed thought, star followed star
Through boundless regions on;
While one sweet influence, near and far,
Thrilled through, and proved us one!
– Emily Brontë
My Guiding Light
You are the one that guides me
When I’m lost in the darkness of night
When I’m adrift on a sea of doubt
You are my guiding light
You are the one who hears my voice
When my words are held within
You are the one that calms me
When my world is crashing in
You are the one I talk to
When no one can understand
You are the one that walks with me
You hold my trembling hand
You are the one who sees me
For what I hope to be
You are the one that lifts me up
To be more than I can be.
– Ron Orcutt
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries
the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,
and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose
from the earth lives dimly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems or pride:
I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,
except in this form in which I am not nor are you,
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams.
– Pablo Neruda
Stars, Songs, Faces
Gather the stars if you wish it so.
Gather the songs and keep them.
Gather the faces of women.
Gather for keeping years and years.
And then . . .
Loosen your hands, let go and say good-by.
Let the stars and songs go.
Let the faces and years go.
Loosen your hands and say good-by.
– Carl Sandburg
She Walks In Beauty (excerpt)
…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.
– Lord Byron
When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
– Walt Whitman
Haikus about stars and love
A Haiku is a traditional Japanese form of poetry known for their simplicity but also depth.
Haiku’s are short – with three lines and a syllable pattern of 5-7-5, often focusing on nature, emotions, or fleeting moments of beauty.
Starry Embrace
Under silver light,
your hand in mine feels endless—
stars hum love’s quiet.
Celestial Bond
Moon whispers softly,
guiding hearts through darkened skies—
love, an ancient glow.
Night’s Serenade
Stars weave a story,
of lovers lost in the night,
hearts tethered to skies.
Lunar Vows
The moon gazes down,
its light touching only you—
my constant beacon.
Cosmic Dance
Orbiting your heart,
I find galaxies within—
love’s infinite pull.
Eternal Glow
Stars blink through the night,
their light a vow unbroken—
love outshines the dark.
Moonlit Secrets
Under quiet skies,
the moon listens to our hearts—
whispers fill the air.
Celestial Veil
Wrapped in starlight’s glow,
we forget the world below—
love becomes the sky.
Night’s Compass
Lost among the stars,
your love becomes my North Star—
guiding every step.
Shadow and Glow
Moonlight touches you,
casting shadows soft and warm—
love’s silhouette gleams.
Galactic Heartbeat
Nebulas ignite,
reflecting in your deep gaze—
cosmos in your soul.
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