Love

"Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll— Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me—toll The silver iterance!—only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence, with thy soul."

"Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him."

"God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her."

"Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!"

"No matter what you do, if your heart is ever true, And his heart was true to Poll."

"To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!"

"What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning."

"When things were as fine as could possibly be I thought 'twas the spring; but alas it was she."

"My love lies bleeding."

"He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires, As Old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away."

"Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine."

"Vivamus, mea Lesbia atque amemus."

"Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua."

": What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water."

"I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines."

"None ever loved, but at first sight they loved."

"Vivunt in venerem frondes omnisque vicissim Felix arbor amat; mutant ad mutua palmæ Fœdera."

": The leaves live but to love, and in all the lofty grove the happy trees love each his neighbor."

"He that can't live upon love deserves to die in a ditch."

"Say what you will, 'tis better to be left Than never to have loved."

"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!"

"Love's great artillery."

"Mighty Love's artillery."

"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?"

"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."

"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."

"Mais on revient toujours A ses premières amours."

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

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

"Wedded love is founded on esteem."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust — but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation."