
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Voices of the Night http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/Chap1.html, Prelude, st. 19 (1839).
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Tabulae Votivae (Votive Tablets) (1796), "The Key"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)
Variant translation:[citation needed]
If you want to know yourself,
Just look how others do it;
If you want to understand others,
Look into your own heart
Hyperion http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5436, Bk. IV, Ch. 8 (1839).
“Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.”
Sonnet 1,Concluding couplet from Loving in truth,and fain in verse my love to show
Compare: "Look, then, into thine heart and write", Henry W. Longfellow, Voices of the Night, Prelude.
Variant: Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
Source: Astrophel and Stella (1591)
Context: .... But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
“And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39
“Look out upon the stars, my love,
And shame them with thine eyes.”
A Serenade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The Cross on Golgotha
Thou lookest to in vain,
Unless within thine heart
It be set up again”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
Quoted in The Life of St. Gemma Galgani by her spiritual director Ven. Germanus, trans. A. M. O'Sullivan, 1999, p. 258.
Source: Hinds' Feet on High Places