"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."

": 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 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."

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

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

"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."

"Love understands love; it needs no talk."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Si sine amore, jocisque Nil est jucundum, vivas in amore jocisque."

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

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

"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?"

"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."

"Sing, for faith and hope are high— None so true as you and I— Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!""

"Love begins with love."

": The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone."

": O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu."

"The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in what we excite."

"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."

": And in that first flame Is all the nectar of the kiss."

"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."