“I'll sing a song of love so sweet, so blessed
with harmonious sounds, so true to the name
of love (with two thousand examples), it will enflame
even those with dead hearts in their chest.”

“Sing, sweet nightingale,
Sing me a song of a night never-ending,
Sing, sweet nightingale,
And I'll try to pretend
That tomorrow's nowhere near
And there's nothing to fear.”

“O thrush, your song is passing sweet
But never a song that you have sung,
Is half so sweet as thrushes sang
When my dear Love and I were young.”

“I love you, I love you, I love you! And if you ever die on me again, I'll kill you so dead! (Tabitha)”

“Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.”

“Give me songs
to sing
and emerald dreams
to dream

and I'll give you love
unfolding.”

“The love I feel for you
Is so deep and runs so true
That I even love the longing
That I feel because of you.”

“Sweet hymns shall be my chant and woven songs,
For Thou art all for which my spirit longs--
To be within the shadow of Thy hand
And all Thy mystery to understand.
The while Thy glory is upon my tongue,
My inmost heart with love of thee is wrung,
So though Thy mighty marvels I proclaim,
'Tis songs of love wherewith I greet Thy name.”

“Loving and hating were so close, two sides of a coin whose name was Need.”

“Those that he loved so long and sees no more,
Loved and still loves,—not dead, but gone before,—
He gathers round him.”