love

"When Madelon comes out to serve us drinks, We always know she's coming by her song. And every man he tells his little tale, And Madelon, she listens all day long. Our Madelon is never too severe— A kiss or two is nothing much to her— She laughs us up to love and life and God— Madelon, Madelon, Madelon."

"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, or hills, or fields, Or woods and steepy mountains, yield."

"Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas; Je n'en saurois dire la cause; Je sais seulement une chose. C'est que je ne vous aime pas."

"I love thee not, Nell But why I can't tell."

"It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new."

"I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still."

"I never heard Of any true affection but 'twas nipped."

"He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all."

"I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art."

"A boat at midnight sent alone To drift upon the moonless sea, A lute, whose leading chord is gone, A wounded bird, that hath but one Imperfect wing to soar upon, Are like what I am, without thee."

"Tell me, what's Love;" said Youth, one day, To drooping Age, who crost his way.— "It is a sunny hour of play; For which repentance dear doth pay; Repentance! Repentance! And this is Love, as wise men say."

"I've wandered east, I've wandered west, I've bourne a weary lot; But in my wanderings far or near Ye never were forgot. The fount that first burst frae this heart Still travels on its way And channels deeper as it rins The luve o' life's young day."

"Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are."

"Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness."

"Not from the whole wide world I chose thee, Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea! The wide, wide world could not inclose thee, For thou art the whole wide world to me."

"The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good."

"Oh, tell me whence Love cometh! Love comes uncall'd, unsent. Oh, tell me where Love goeth! That was not Love that went."

"Poor love is lost in men's capacious minds, In ours, it fills up all the room it finds."

"Love, then, hath every bliss in store; 'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more. Each other every wish they give; Not to know love is not to live."

"I love her doubling and anguish; I love the love she withholds, I love my love that loveth her, And anew her being moulds."

"In einem Augenblick gewährt die Liebe Was Mühe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht."

": Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age."

": Girls we love for what they are; Young men for what they promise to be."

"Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life—my all that's mine!"

"O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love."

"Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love."

"The chemist of love Will this perishing mould, Were it made out of mire, Transmute into gold."

"Du bist wie eine Blume, so hold, so schön und rein; Ich shau' dich an und Wehmut schleicht mir ins Herz hinein."

"Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth."

"Open your heart and take us in, Love—love and me."

"There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die."

"Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be: Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee, A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I'll give to thee."

"Soft is the breath of a maiden's Yes: Not the light gossamer stirs with less; But never a cable that holds so fast Through all the battles of wave and blast."

"Who love too much, hate in the like extreme."

"What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair."

"If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant—'We trust in thee!'"

"When love is at its best, one loves So much that he cannot forget."

"Love's like the flies, and, drawing-room or garret, goes all over a house."

"What's this dull town to me? Robin's not near— He whom I wished to see, Wished for to hear; Where's all the joy and mirth Made life a heaven on earth? O! they're all fled with thee, Robin Adair."

"The hawk unto the open sky, The red deer to the wold; The Romany lass for the Romany lad, As in the days of old."

"If Love were jester at the court of Death, And Death the king of all, still would I pray, "For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!""

"Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence."

"Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Ever made by the Hand above— A woman's heart, and a woman's life, And a woman's wonderful love?"

"I love a lassie, a bonnie, bonnie lassie, She's as pure as the lily in the dell. She's as sweet as the heather, The bonnie, bloomin' heather, Mary, ma Scotch Blue-bell."

"Like Dian's kiss, unask'd, unsought, Love gives itself, but is not bought."

"Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine."

"So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn't grow up any higher; So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot, For all lovers true to admire."

"Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey, Over rocks that are steepest, Love will find out the way."

"Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near."

"A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays."