"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Cupid "the little greatest enemy.""

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

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

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

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

": 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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Love understands love; it needs no talk."

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

"Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart."

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

"What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart."

"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!"

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

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

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

"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?"

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

"Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth."

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

": It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms."

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

"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."

"I saw and loved."

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

"Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning."

"The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. Hours that rejoice and regret for a span, Born with a man's breath, mortal as he; Loves that are lost ere they come to birth, Weeds of the wave, without fruit upon earth. I lose what I long for, save what I can, My love, my love, and no love for me!"

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

"Love, Love, my Love. The best things are the truest! When the earth lies shadowy dark below Oh, then the heavens are bluest!"

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

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

"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!""