My favorite short love poem (
poesie amore brevi) is:
May it never be that I place impediments to the
union of faithful souls; Love is not Love
if it changes when it discovers a change
or tends to vanish when the other moves away.
Oh no! Love is an ever-fixed beacon
that hangs over the storm and never falters;
it is the guiding star of every lost boat,
the value of which is unknown, although the distance is known.
Love is not subject to Time, even if rosy lips and cheeks must
fall under its curved blade;
Love does not change in a few hours or weeks,
but fearlessly resists the last day of judgment:
if this is a mistake and it will be proved to me,
I have never written, and no one has ever loved.
(William Shakespeare)