“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
A Serenade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006–1089) Persian writer
A Literary History of Persian, Vol. 2, p. 270
Poetry
Ono no Komachi (825–900) Japanese poet
Source: Yone Noguchi's [The Spirit of Japanese Poetry] (1914), p. 112
“Look deep in the eyes of love
And find out what you were looking for.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
Room At The Top
Lyrics, Echo (1999)
“And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,—
That star of life's tremulous ocean.”
Paul Moon James (1780–1854) British poet and banker
The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Song, To Celia, lines 1-16; this poem was inspired by "Letter XXIV" of Philostratus, which in translation reads: "Drink to me with your eyes alone…. And if you will, take the cup to your lips and fill it with kisses, and give it so to me".
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
Context: Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honoring thee
As giving it a hope that there
It could not withered be.
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent'st it back to me;
Since when it grows and smells, I swear,
Not of itself, but thee.