It is the purpose of this paper to examine the nature of love in the love poems of Judith Wright and Emily Dickinson. Even in psychology, love has not been defined clearly in intelligent terms, for people have thought that it is not to be pondered but simply to be experienced as a strong emotional attachment to another. In this paper, the ideas on love are examined in Heraclitus and Plato to understand how they considered love in ancient times. Among the recent studies of the psychology of love, Robert Sternberg`s triangular theory of love is remarkable and popular in the analysis and categorization of love. According to him, love consists of 3 factors, passion, intimacy and commitment, which are located at the vertexes of the triangle of love. He categorized love into 8 types depending on the combination of these 3 factors. When the triangular theory is applied to Wright`s love poems, the love in them seems to be a completed one in which the 3 factors harmonized well together. However, when Dickinson`s poems are analyzed with the theory, the love in her poems focuses on passion while the other 2 factors are lacking or absented. In Wright`s love poems, personae want to appreciate love as a resource of life-force and to be free from the fear of time and death through happy union, or for them love can be a means to lead a better life morally or emotionally. In Dickinson`s, personae are eager to share passionate love with lovers who are not always able to be around them. For them, love itself is a goal to acquire. The result can be reasoned that Wright was a married woman and she could appreciate harmonized love, while Dickinson was unmarried, and furthermore, reclusive in her later life, and she had no opportunity to realize what complete love is in Sternberg`s sense.