Love.

[Wife of Bath]

I need your favorite love lyrics, love poems, love quotes.

I'm working on a project and I am running out of sources to tap. They can be alternative or classic.

So I'm tapping you! The GB. God help me. I'm hoping you will first, though. Ideally no more than two or three lines, about 14-20 words would be best.

kthx.

 

[oggbashan]

John Donne:

1.
Whoever loves, if he do not propose
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

2.
I wonder, by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov'd? Were we not weaned till then?
But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly?

 

[bronzeage]

I need your favorite love lyrics, love poems, love quotes.

I'm working on a project and I am running out of sources to tap. They can be alternative or classic.

So I'm tapping you! The GB. God help me. I'm hoping you will first, though. Ideally no more than two or three lines, about 14-20 words would be best.

kthx.

Drink to me only with thine eyes.
Leave a kiss but in the cup and I'll not wish for wine.

 

[about_average]

One of my favorite love songs

http://youtu.be/2h9AjhL7RZI

 

[oggbashan]

Aennchen Von Thorau

Or, by Longfellow:

Annie of Tharaw, my true love of old,
She is my life, and my goods, and my gold.

 

[pointless]

that's easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEZcUONkz2Q

 

[parodyluvr75]

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde

 

[neci]

LOVE is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.

-Emily Dickinson

 

[Adre]

Tony Tenille said it best, just Google Love will keep us together.

 

[oggbashan]

Comte de Bussy-Rabutin 1618-1693

L'absence est a l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; il éteint le petit, il allime le grand.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it blows out the small, enflames the great.

 

[oggbashan]

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds...

When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies.

 

[subdued_passion]

John Donne:

1.
Whoever loves, if he do not propose
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

2.
I wonder, by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov'd? Were we not weaned till then?
But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly?

Oh, I just love metaphysical wit.

Comte de Bussy-Rabutin 1618-1693

L'absence est a l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; il éteint le petit, il allime le grand.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it blows out the small, enflames the great.

Something to tie your two posts.

Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.

 

[oggbashan]

The swain did woo, she was nice,
Following fashion nayed him twice.

Robert Green 1560-1592


Time was when Love and I were well acquainted.

W S Gilbert - The Sorcerer

 

[Fata Morgana]

As it is, I can’t settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy me and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other’s names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.

Jeanette Winterson

 

[Fata Morgana]

The man who named my narrow bed was a quiet person, but he had good questions. “I suppose you do love me, in your way,” I said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed. “And how else should I love you—in your way?” he asked.

I am still thinking about that.

Anne Carson

 

[Wife of Bath]

The man who named my narrow bed was a quiet person, but he had good questions. “I suppose you do love me, in your way,” I said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed. “And how else should I love you—in your way?” he asked.

I am still thinking about that.

Anne Carson

this is my favorite.

thank you guys. Very helpful!