"No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason."

"O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But it cannot be sounded; my affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal."

"Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. It is to be all made of sighs and tears;— It is to be all made of faith and service;— It is to be all made of fantasy."

"It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover."

"We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly."

"But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much."

"This is the very ecstasy of love Whose violent property foredoes itself, And leads the will to desperate undertakings."

"Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none"

"He is far gone, far gone: and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; very near this."

"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; When little fears grow great, great love grows there."

"Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind, All unseen can passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath."

"By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy."

"Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste: For valour, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?"

"And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."

"Yet I have not seen So likely an ambassador of love; A day in April never came so sweet, To show how costly summer was at hand, As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord."

"And swearing till my very roof was dry With oaths of love."

"But love that comes too late, Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, To the great sender turns a sour offence."

"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love."

"If thou remember'st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not lov'd."

"Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity."

"Bist du bei mir, geh ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh. Ach, wie vergnügt wär so mein Ende, es drückten deine schönen Hände mir die getreuen Augen zu!"

"Love is the center of holiness. Loving God above all and loving others like ourselves summarize the Ten commandments."

"Love rules without rules."

"Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies— Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer."

"I'm sorry that I spell'd the word; I hate to go above you, Because"—the brown eyes lower fell,— "Because, you see, I love you!"

"He loves not well whose love is bold! I would not have thee come too nigh. The sun's gold would not seem pure gold Unless the sun were in the sky: To take him thence and chain him near Would make his beauty disappear."

"What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love."

"And the King with his golden sceptre, The Pope with Saint Peter's key, Can never unlock the one little heart That is opened only to me. For I am the Lord of a Realm, And I am Pope of a See; Indeed I'm supreme in the kingdom That is sitting, just now, on my knee."

"O, rank is good, and gold is fair, And high and low mate ill; But love has never known a law Beyond its own sweet will!"

"The unconquerable pang of despised love."

": Who can deceive a lover?"

"The warrior for the True, the Right, Fights in Love's name; The love that lures thee from that fight Lures thee to shame: That love which lifts the heart, yet leaves The spirit free,— That love, or none, is fit for one Man-shaped like thee."

"For all true love is grounded on esteem."

": Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring."

"Die Liebe wintert nicht; Nein, nein! Ist und bleibt Frühlings-Schein."

"At first, she loved nought else but flowers, And then—she only loved the rose; And then—herself alone; and then— She knew not what, but now—she knows."

"To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!"

"For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast."

"Nec jurare time; Veneris perjuria venti Irrita per terras et freta summa ferunt, Gratia magna Jovi; vetuit pater ipse valere, Jurasset cupide quicquid ineptus amor."

"O, what are you waiting for here? young man! What are you looking for over the bridge?— A little straw hat with the streaming blue ribbons Is soon to come dancing over the bridge."

": Fear not to swear; the winds carry the perjuries of lovers without effect over land and sea, thanks to Jupiter. The father of the gods himself has denied effect to what foolish lovers in their eagerness have sworn."

"Like to a wind-blown sapling grow I from The cliff, Sweet, of your skyward-jetting soul,— Shook by all gusts that sweep it, overcome By all its clouds incumbent; O be true To your soul, dearest, as my life to you! For if that soil grow sterile, then the whole Of me must shrivel, from the topmost shoot Of climbing poesy, and my life, killed through, Dry down and perish to the foodless root."

"Werther had a love for Charlotte, Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter."

"Why should we kill the best of passions, love? It aids the hero, bids ambition rise To nobler heights, inspires immortal deeds, Even softens brutes, and adds a grace to virtue."

"Perjuria ridet amantium Jupiter et ventos irrita ferre jubet."

"Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing."

"I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death."

"Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret."