love

"See yonder blushing vine tree grow, And clasp a dry and wither’d plane, And round its youthful tendril throw A shelter from the wind and rain.That sapless trunk in former time Gave covert from the noontide blaze, And taught the infant shoot to climb, That now the pious debt repays.And thus, kind Powers, a partner give To share in my prosperity; Hang on my strength while yet I live, And do me honour when I die."

"To hold the pure delights of brain Above light loves and sweet champagne. For, you and I, we did eschew The egoistic "I" and "you;"And all our observations ran On Art and Letters, Life and Man. Proudly we sat, we two, on high, Throned in our Objectivity;Scarce friends, not lovers (each avers), But sexless, safe Philosophers."

"And then there are such things as love divine, Bright and immaculate, unmix’d and pure, Such as the angels think so very fine, And matrons who would be no less secure, Platonic, perfect, ‘just such love as mine;’ Thus Julia said—and thought so, to be sure; And so I’d have her think, were I the man On whom her reveries celestial ran."

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"The hand which still held Juan’s, by degrees Gently, but palpably confirm’d its grasp, As if it said, ‘Detain me, if you please;’ Yet there’s no doubt she only meant to clasp His fingers with a pure Platonic squeeze: She would have shrunk as from a toad, or asp, Had she imagined such a thing could rouse A feeling dangerous to a prudent spouse."

"There is someone for everyone."

"In the Bay Area the demand for matchmaking has doubled within 5 years."

"Clients come with very high expectations. My female clients usually want someone that is tall with blue eyes and a certain amount of income. Regardless of their age, they want someone younger."

"Love's like the flies, and, drawing-room or garret, goes all over a house."

"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."

"For love deceives the best of woman kind."

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

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

"When love is at its best, one loves So much that he cannot forget."

"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?"

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

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

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

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

"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?"

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Love has a tide!"

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Poor love is lost in men's capacious minds, In ours, it fills up all the room it finds."

"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."

"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."

": 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!"

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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