Love Quotes Part 2
by F.W. BourdillonThe mind has a thousand eyes
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
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"A love letter with chocolate" by Kevin Missen
Swallowing that chocolate you just ate
May have been your fatal mistake!
Your smooth complexion will get lumps and spots,
Your lips will go brown and your teeth will all rot.
Your breath will go smelly - it may make you sick,
Not to mention your waistline expanding a bit!
After eating that chocolate with its lack of nutrition,
You will need to visit your local beautician.
But no matter how ugly you may turn out to be
You will always be sweet and beautiful to me.
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"A Marriage" by Robert Creeley
The first retainer
he gave to her
was a golden
wedding ring.
The second - late at night
he woke up,
leaned over on an elbow
and kissed her.
The third and the last -
he died with
and gave up loving
and lived with her.
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"Whenever I" by Vicki Joy Nash
Whenever I hear a beautiful sound
It's your voice that I hear
Whenever I smell a beautiful scent
I know that you are near
Whenever I play a beautiful tune
The music we both share
Whenever I see a beautiful sight
I look to find you there
Whenever I have a beautiful dream
My night was shared with you
Whenever I think a beautiful thought
My memories are of you
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from "The trouble with the light" by Pedro Salinas
The trouble with the light
is that it doesn't
come from you. It comes
from the sun's, from the rivers, from the olive tree.
I'd rather have your darkness.
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by Emily Dickinson
To see her is a Picture -
To hear her is a Tune -
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June -
To know her not - Affliction -
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the Sun
Were shining in your Hand.
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by Kenneth Rexroth
When I go to sleep my eyes
close in a mesh of memory.
Its cloud of intimate odor
Dreams instead of myself.
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by Kenneth Koch
I come to you out of an old darkness,
Smelling familiarly of sleep -
I approach you smiling keenly,
My lips typewriting noise,
But love softens me until,
I move like a child in a graveyard.
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"Let me write letters" by Ghalib
Let me write letters even if
I have nothing to say.
The letters of your name
will be the theme of my letters.
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"Song" by Nigel Jackson
Grace of the wind,
Beauty of the rose,
My sweetest love,
Her road she goes.
How I loved her
Only heart knows;
How I miss her
Every tear shows.
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"To Anne" by M. Watts
I hear the wind tonight Anne
I seem to feel you by me
But when I turn
You won't be there
Only the whirling
Empty air.
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by Reaves
Love is handsome love is pretty
Love is charming when it's true
As it grows older it grows colder
And fades away like morning dew. . .
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by Lady Nakatomi
Should you refuse me
do you think I would force you?
no, I would remain
Confused in love as roots of rush
and still keep longing after you
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by Donald Hall
Three months.
So we are lovers again.
Yet we will do everything again.
The grass moves,
it grows taller, summer lengthens
gold days.
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"Love Comes Quietly" by Robert Creeley
Love comes quietly,
finally, drops
about me, on me,
in the old ways.
What did I know
thinking myself
able to go
alone all the way.
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From a spanish song
Yesterday I loved,
Today I suffer,
Tomorrow I die,
Yet, today and tomorrow
I like to think
Of yesterday
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"Epilogue" by Denise Levertov
I thought I had found a swan
but it was a migrating snow-goose.
I thought I was linked invisibly to another's life
but I found myself more alone with him than without him.
I thought I had found a fire
but it was the play of light on bright stones.
I thought I was wounded to the core
but I was only bruised.
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by John Dryden
Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are
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"Don't pretend" by Ghalib
Don't pretend you don't know me.
That's the surest sign!
So, instead of turning away your face,
look me in the eyes.
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by John Laws
I remember most
the times
when love was short
and memories were long.
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"I think of the days" by Fujiwara No Atsutada
I think of the days
Before I met her
When I seemed to have
No troubles at all.
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"Games" by Dan Rowden
I love you
You don't care
I beg
You smile
I cry
You laugh
I wither
You grow
I pine
You play
I die . . . . . . . . now, you cry.
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