The topic pages that win this search, bangla-kobita's Premer Kobita page among them, work at archive scale: that site states 2,610 romantic poems. Our catalogue is a different kind of shelf. It holds 2,179 poems by 26 poets, each one a record with a poet, a theme and a source book, and 720 of them are tagged love. This page counts the love shelf poet by poet, because who wrote the love poems decides how to read them.
The count
| Poet | Love poems |
|---|---|
| Rabindranath Tagore | 439 |
| Kazi Nazrul Islam | 63 |
| Jibanananda Das | 50 |
| Jasimuddin | 35 |
| Michael Madhusudan Dutt | 17 |
| Shakti Chattopadhyay | 17 |
| Sukanta Bhattacharya | 15 |
| Sunil Gangopadhyay | 15 |
Love is the catalogue's second-largest theme, behind only nature at 863 and ahead of devotion at 624 and sorrow at 610. But the distribution is the story: Tagore alone holds 61 percent of the love shelf, and the other 18 poets share the remaining 281 poems. A reader browsing premer kobita at random is, most of the time, reading Tagore.
The tail deserves its own arithmetic. Below the eight poets in the table sit 11 more, holding 69 love poems between them, a handful each. That is the part of the shelf no topic page surfaces, because topic pages rank by fame, and fame is exactly what the tail has not accumulated yet. A counted catalogue reverses the browsing order: it can show you the 69 first, as a shelf of their own, and let the 439 wait their turn.
How to read a shelf this uneven
Start with the tail, not the mountain. Nazrul's 63 burn hotter and shorter; Jibanananda's 50 are love filtered through landscape and dusk; Jasimuddin's 35 carry the village in them. Read those first and the Tagore majority becomes a choice instead of a default. Then take Tagore by book rather than by count, which is what the collections count on this blog does with his 831 poems. And when one love poem lands, the Kobita Card Maker turns its lines into a card worth sending, which is how most of these poems travel now anyway.
Sources: KobitaGhar poem catalogue, 2,179 records verified September 2026. Winner scale figure is bangla-kobita.com's own stated count on its Premer Kobita page, credited to that site. Topic-page form follows bangla-kobita.com, Romantic Poems (Premer Kobita) of Famous Bengali Poets.