George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Fare Thee Well http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-FTW46.htm, st. 1 (1816).
“T were vain to tell thee all I feel,
Or say for thee I'd die.
Ah, well-a-day, the sweetest melody
Could never, never say, one half my love for thee.”
T were vain to tell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“I praise Thee while my days go on;
I love Thee while my days go on”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
St. 23 -24.
De Profundis (1862)
Context: p>I praise Thee while my days go on;
I love Thee while my days go on:
Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost,
With emptied arms and treasure lost,
I thank Thee while my days go on.And having in thy life-depth thrown
Being and suffering (which are one),
As a child drops his pebble small
Down some deep well, and hears it fall
Smiling — so I. THY DAYS GO ON.</p
“He that loves thee, He that keeps
And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English poet
Good Night (1632).
“I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee.”
Martial book Epigrammata
I, 32, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, / The reason why I cannot tell; / But this alone I know full well, / I do not love thee, Doctor Fell", Tom Brown, Laconics.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) American writer
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake. Compare: "She was good as she was fair, None—none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are: To know her was to love her, Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline, Stanza 1.
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!
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
"To my Child-friend" in The Game Of Logic (1886)