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I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
James Joyce1882–1941Dubliners (1914), ArabyIn context
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On LoveIn context
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?
But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,
And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On TimeIn context
- Time
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
John Donne1572–1631The Good-Morrow (1633)In context
- Beauty
When love with unconfined wings
Hovers within my gates;
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the grates;
When I lye tangled in her haire,
And fetterd to her eye,
The birds, that wanton in the aire,
Know no such liberty.
Richard Lovelace1617–1658To Althea, from Prison (1649)In context
- Freedom
Let us roll all our Strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one Ball:
And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,
Thorough the Iron gates of Life.
Thus, though we cannot make our Sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Andrew Marvell1621–1678To His Coy Mistress (1681)In context
- Time
Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we’ll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.
Lord Byron1788–1824So, We’ll Go No More a Roving (1817)In context
When true hearts lie withered,
And fond ones are flown,
O! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?
Thomas Moore1779–1852The Last Rose of Summer (1813)In context
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we⁠—
Of many far wiser than we⁠—
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Annabel Lee (1849)In context
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling⁠—my darling⁠—my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Annabel Lee (1849)In context
- Life & Death
Dear as remember’d kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign’d
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Tears, Idle Tears (1847)In context
- Time
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Down by the Salley Gardens (1889)In context
- Youth
“One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I’m after a prize to-night,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight;
Watch for me by moonlight;
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way!”
Alfred Noyes1880–1958The Highwayman (1906)In context
Come on, and kiss me, Kate.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1591), Act V, Scene II, spoken by PetruchioIn context
There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene I, spoken by AntonyIn context