Anniversary Quotes & Poems

Anniversary Help is dedicated to helping spouses have the best Anniversary possible. Often this will include flowers, which is why we have included the section on traditional Wedding Anniversary Flowers as well as a section on Flowers and Their Meanings. However, the perfect bouquet also requires a card with a message, which is why we have included this section on Anniversary Poems and Anniversary Quotes.

In addition to using quotes from the following poems on a card, you can of course consider reciting one of these poems in it’s entirety, since few things express love as well as a poem.

All Paths Lead To You
by Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff

All paths lead to you
Where e’er I stray,
You are the evening star
At the end of day.
All paths lead to you
Hill-top or low,
You are the white birch
In the sun’s glow.
All paths lead to you
Where e’er I roam.
You are the lark-song
Calling me home!

My Life is a Bowl
By May Riley Smith

My life is a bowl which is mine to brim
With loveliness old and new.
So I fill its clay from stem to rim
With you, dear heart,
With you.
My life is a pool which can only hold
One star and a glimpse of blue.
But the blue and the little lamp of gold
Are you, dear heart,
Are you.
My life is a homing bird that flies
Through the starry dusk and dew
Home to the heaven of your true eyes,
Home, dear heart,
To you.

Love
by Roy Croft

I love you
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.
I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.
I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can’t help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find
I love you because you
Are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple.
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song.
I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good.
And more than any fate
Could have done
To make me happy.
You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all.

If You But Knew
by Unknown

If you but knew
How all my days seemed
filled with dreams of you
How sometimes in the silent night
Your eyes thrill through me
with their tender light,
How you, ‘mid other forms I seek-
Oh, love more real than though
such dreams were true
If you but knew.

Could you but guess
How you alone make all my happiness,
How I am more willing for your sake
To stand alone, give all and nothing take,
Nor chafe to think me bound while you are free
Quite free , till death, to love you silently,
Could you but guess.

Could you but learn
How when you doubt my truth I sadly yearn
To tell you all, to stand for one brief space
Unfettered, soul to soul, as face to face,
To crown you queen, My queen, till life shall end,
My lover and likewise my truest friend,
Would you love me, dearest, as fondly in return,
Could you but learn?