"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!
“Each lonely scene shall thee restore;
For thee the tear be duly shed;
Beloved till life can charm no more,
And mourn'd till Pity’s self be dead.”
Source: Dirge (1744), line 21.
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No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
“All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
The chambered Nautilus; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Defer not till tomorrow to be wise,
Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.”
"Letter to Cobham", line 61. Compare: "Be wise to-day, 't is madness to defer", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, Night i. line 390
“Less, less of self each day,
And more, my God, of Thee!”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 538.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 94.
Introduction, st. 4
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
“Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 515
“Dost thou think to live till his old doublet will make thee a new truss?”
Act III, sc. vi
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)