"I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth."

"Cupid "the little greatest enemy.""

"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."

"O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!"

": If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes."

"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."

"You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long."

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

"No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love."

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

"Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before."

"Es ist eine alte Geschichte, Doch bleibt sie immer neu."

": It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new."

": Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide."

"When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But—why did you kick me downstairs?"

"Love denied blights the soul we owe to God."

"As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions."

"And once again we plighted our troth, And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly."

"Such sober certainty of waking bliss."

"I knew he loved me."

"To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life."

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

"Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeves was my heart of gold, And who but Lady Greensleeves?"

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

"Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be."

"Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart."

"As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us."

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

"Wenn ich dich lieb habe, was geht's dich an?"

": If I love you, what business is that of yours?"

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

"Love understands love; it needs no talk."

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

"Man liebt an dem Mädchen was es ist, Und an dem Jüngling was er ankündigt."

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

"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!"

"Es ist eine der grössten Himmelsgaben, So ein lieb' Ding im Arm zu haben."

": It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms."

"I seek for one as fair and gay, But find none to remind me, How blest the hours pass'd away With the girl I left behind me."

"Love, Love, my Love. The best things are the truest! When the earth lies shadowy dark below Oh, then the heavens are bluest!"

"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."