Love

"To love her was a liberal education."

"I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew."

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."

"In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise."

"If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather."

"O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless as my life's first day: Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed."

"Cogas amantem irasci, amare si velis."

": You must make a lover angry if you wish him to love."

": Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement."

"When gloaming treads the heels of day And birds sit cowering on the spray, Along the flowery hedge I stray, To meet mine ain dear somebody."

"And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old."

"I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death."

"Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret."

"It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

"Why should we kill the best of passions, love? It aids the hero, bids ambition rise To nobler heights, inspires immortal deeds, Even softens brutes, and adds a grace to virtue."

"O, what are you waiting for here? young man! What are you looking for over the bridge?— A little straw hat with the streaming blue ribbons Is soon to come dancing over the bridge."

": Fear not to swear; the winds carry the perjuries of lovers without effect over land and sea, thanks to Jupiter. The father of the gods himself has denied effect to what foolish lovers in their eagerness have sworn."

"Perjuria ridet amantium Jupiter et ventos irrita ferre jubet."

"At first, she loved nought else but flowers, And then—she only loved the rose; And then—herself alone; and then— She knew not what, but now—she knows."

"The warrior for the True, the Right, Fights in Love's name; The love that lures thee from that fight Lures thee to shame: That love which lifts the heart, yet leaves The spirit free,— That love, or none, is fit for one Man-shaped like thee."

"For all true love is grounded on esteem."

"To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!"

"O, rank is good, and gold is fair, And high and low mate ill; But love has never known a law Beyond its own sweet will!"

"I'm sorry that I spell'd the word; I hate to go above you, Because"—the brown eyes lower fell,— "Because, you see, I love you!"

"He loves not well whose love is bold! I would not have thee come too nigh. The sun's gold would not seem pure gold Unless the sun were in the sky: To take him thence and chain him near Would make his beauty disappear."

"The unconquerable pang of despised love."

"Quicquid Amor jussit non est contemnere tutum. Regnat, et in dominos jus habet ille deos."

"Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis."

": Jupiter from on high laughs at the perjuries of lovers."

"Jupiter ex alto perjuria ridet amantum."

"Non bene conveniunt, nec in una sede morantur, Majestas et amor."

": Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together."

": Love is a credulous thing."

"Otia si tollas, periere cupidinis arcus."

"Let those love now who never lov'd before, Let those who always loved now love the more."

"The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise."

"What thing is love?—for (well I wot) love is a thing. It is a prick, it is a sting. It is a pretty, pretty thing; It is a fire, it is a coal, Whose flame creeps in at every hole!"

"Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—love alone; and women as well as men."

"Amor et melle et felle est fœcundissimus: Gustu dat dulce, amarum ad satietatem usque aggerit."

": Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety."

": Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold."

"Qui in amore præcipitavit pejus perit, quam si saxo saliat."

"Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."

"Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy."

"Scilicent insano nemo in amore videt."

": Everybody in love is blind."

"Ach die Zeiten der Liebe rollen nicht zurück, sondern ewig weiter hinab."

": Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever."

": Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's."

"Res est soliciti plena timoris amor."