"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."

"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!"

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

"I saw and loved."

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

"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."

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

"Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey."

"He is not a lover who does not love for ever."

": But one always returns to one's first loves."

"Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,— Golden curls, and quiver, and bow."

"Mais on revient toujours A ses premières amours."

"All mankind love a lover."

"Wedded love is founded on esteem."

"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."

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

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

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

"Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart."

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

"I'm sitting on the stile. Mary, Where we sat side by side."

"How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume more than any spice!"

"Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man."

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

"He who, being bold For life to come, is false to the past sweet Of mortal life, hath killed the world above. For why to live again if not to meet? And why to meet if not to meet in love? And why in love if not in that dear love of old?"

"And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Vnless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well."

"Love's great artillery."

"Mighty Love's artillery."

"Heaven's great artillery."

"Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Cæsar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off; I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra."

"How wise are they that are but fools in love!"

"A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain."

"I know not when the day shall be, I know not when our eyes may meet; What welcome you may give to me, Or will your words be sad or sweet, It may not be 'till years have passed, 'Till eyes are dim and tresses gray; The world is wide, but, love, at last, Our hands, our hearts, must meet some day."

"How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain."

"Say what you will, 'tis better to be left Than never to have loved."

"If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see The heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me."

"He that can't live upon love deserves to die in a ditch."

"Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved."

"Vivunt in venerem frondes omnisque vicissim Felix arbor amat; mutant ad mutua palmæ Fœdera."

": The leaves live but to love, and in all the lofty grove the happy trees love each his neighbor."

"Banish that fear; my flame can never waste, For love sincere refines upon the taste."

"I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines."

"None ever loved, but at first sight they loved."

"It's love, it's love that makes the world go round."

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

": It is difficult at once to relinquish a long-cherished love."