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Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse⁠—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness⁠—
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Omar Khayyam1048–1131The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)In context
- Happiness
- Poetry
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Remember (1862)In context
- Life & Death
Wild nights! Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (1891)In context
- Sex
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
‘The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
‘T is paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.’
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ‘t is true, ‘t is true.
A. E. Housman1859–1936When I Was One-and-Twenty (1896)In context
- Experience
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
W. B. Yeats1865–1939When You Are Old (1892)In context
- Age
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W. B. Yeats1865–1939He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (1899)In context
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.
Wallace Stevens1879–1955Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1917)In context
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
Edna St. Vincent Millay1892–1950What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why (1920)In context
- Age
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
Ernest Dowson1867–1900Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae (1891)In context
I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine
Ernest Dowson1867–1900Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae (1891)In context
- Emotion
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott1771–1832The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Canto ThirdIn context
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Jules Verne1828–1905Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Happiness
My nature is for mutual love, not hate.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by AntigoneIn context
My peace is gone,
My heart is sore:
I never shall find it,
Ah, nevermore!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene XVIn context
- Emotion
There is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house.
Homer900–800 BCThe Odyssey (8th century BC), Book VIIn context
- Marriage