"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."

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

"From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale."

"If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant—'We trust in thee!'"

"But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead."

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

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

"What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair."

"Love has a tide!"

"By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say: "Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!""

"Cupid "the little greatest enemy.""

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Who love too much, hate in the like extreme."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"For love deceives the best of woman kind."

"If Love were jester at the court of Death, And Death the king of all, still would I pray, "For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!""

"But thou, through good and evil, praise and blame, Wilt not thou love me for myself alone? Yes, thou wilt love me with exceeding love, And I will tenfold all that love repay; Still smiling, though the tender may reprove, Still faithful, though the trusted may betray."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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