"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 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."

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

"Heaven's great artillery."

"Love's great artillery."

"Mighty Love's artillery."

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

"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?"

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

"Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"All mankind love a lover."

"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."

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

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

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

"Wedded love is founded on esteem."

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

"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 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, 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."

"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."

"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."

"Und Lust und Liebe sind die Fittige zu grossen Thaten."

": Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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!"

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

"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."

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