
“Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 342.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 342.
Poem At the dawn I seek Thee
Shir Hakovod, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill
The Grave of Bonaparte, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).
The Lie (1608).
"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!
The Bridge. In The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair (1988)