Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
When Twilight Dews.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Shall I Come, Sweet Love, to Thee?
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
When Twilight Dews.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) United States poet, novelist and travel writer
"Bedouin Song" (1853), in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 69.
Source: The Poems of Bayard Taylor
Context: I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!
Context: From the Desert I come to thee
On a stallion shod with fire;
And the winds are left behind
In the speed of my desire.
Under thy window I stand,
And the midnight hears my cry:
I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Love’s Parting Wreath
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) English poet and songwriter
"A Little Longer".
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)
Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) British minister and poet
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 308.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843) British writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 94.
“That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet