"Ma vie a son secret, mon âme a son mystére: Un amour éternel en un moment concu. La mal est sans remède, aussi j'ai dû le taire, Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su."

": One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown, Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known; And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all."

"How many times do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:— So many times do I love again."

"Mein Herz ich will dich fragen, Was ist denn Liebe, sag? "Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke, Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag.""

"To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole, But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole."

"Love in a shower safe shelter took, In a rosy bower beside a brook, And winked and nodded with conscious pride To his votaries drenched on the other side. Come hither, sweet maids, there's a bridge below, The toll-keeper, Hymen, will let you through. Come over the stream to me."

"Love is like fire. Wounds of fire are hard to bear; harder still are those of love."

"Le premier soupir de l'amour Est le dernier de la sagesse."

": The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom."

"Much ado there was, God wot; He woold love, and she woold not, She sayd, "Never man was trewe;" He sayes, "None was false to you.""

"In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night; And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were green leaves in a darkened chamber, Were dark clouds in a moonless sky."

"For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee."

"Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!"

"Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll— Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me—toll The silver iterance!—only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence, with thy soul."

"Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him."

"I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds All the world's loves in its unworldliness."

"Never the time and the place And the loved one all together."

"God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her."

"Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!"

"Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets."

"No matter what you do, if your heart is ever true, And his heart was true to Poll."

"To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!"

"The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O."

"The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary."

"Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune."

"What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning."

"When things were as fine as could possibly be I thought 'twas the spring; but alas it was she."

"I'll bid the hyacinth to blow, I'll teach my grotto green to be; And sing my true love, all below The holly bower and myrtle tree."

"My love lies bleeding."

"He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires, As Old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away."

"Then fly betimes, for only they Conquer love, that run away."

"Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally; She is the darling of my heart, And lives in our alley."

"Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine."

"Vivamus, mea Lesbia atque amemus."

": My Lesbia, let us live and love."

"Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua."

": What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water."

"Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem."

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

"Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio: sed fieri sentio, et excrucior."

": I hate and I love. Why do I do so you perhaps ask. I cannot say; but I feel it to be so, and I am tormented accordingly."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain."

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