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The Power of Love
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This collection of prose and poetry is for
everyone who has ever loved or been loved.
Of all our emotions, love is the most powerful.
In the words of Ovid, "Love is a driver, bitter and
fierce if you fight and resist him, easy-going
enough once you acknowledge his power." The
sages and poets who adorn this site have
acknowledged love's power and have said so
in the most beautiful ways.
Love feels no burden, thinks
nothing of trouble and attempts
what is above its strength.
Thomas A Kempis
That love is all there is,
Is all we know of love.
Emily Dickinson
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Christina Rossetti
And when love speaks, the voice
of all the gods makes heaven
drowsy with the harmony.
William Shakespeare
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
Edgar Allen Poe
Love is a god
Strong, free, unbounded,
And as some define
Fears nothing, pitieth none.
John Milton
But whenever I see you, I burst apart
And scatter the sky with my blazing heart.
It spits and sparkles in stars and balls,
Buds into roses--and flares, and falls.
Amy Lowell
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry.
W.H. Auden
All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of love
And feed this sacred flame.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!
William Wordsworth
She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said-
'I love thee true'.
John Keats
A pity beyond all telling
Is hid in the heart of love.
W.B. Yeats
Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.
George Gordon, Lord Byron
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
Robert Frost
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods or steepy mountains yields.
Christopher Marlowe
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
Love is a haunting melody
That I have never mastered
And I fear I never will.
William S. Burroughs
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
And think not you can direct the
course of love. For love, if it finds
you worthy, directs your course.
Kahlil Gibran
I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.
John Donne
Many waters cannot quench love,
Neither can the floods drown it.
Song of Solomon 8:7
Love is of all the passions the strongest,
for it attacks simultaneously the head,
the heart, and the senses.
Voltaire
It warms me, it charms me,
To mention but her name;
It heats me, it beats me,
And set me a' on flame.
Robert Burns
Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought,
to have done...
Mathew Arnold
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day.
Andrew Marvell
Bid me to weep, and I will weep,
While I have eyes to see;
And, having none, yet I will keep
A heart to weep for thee.
Robert Herrick
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
T. S. Eliot
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.
Ben Jonson
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach....
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If I should meet thee after long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.....
Robert Browning
Love is exactly as strong as life.
Joseph Campbell
everyone who has ever loved or been loved.
Of all our emotions, love is the most powerful.
In the words of Ovid, "Love is a driver, bitter and
fierce if you fight and resist him, easy-going
enough once you acknowledge his power." The
sages and poets who adorn this site have
acknowledged love's power and have said so
in the most beautiful ways.
Love feels no burden, thinks
nothing of trouble and attempts
what is above its strength.
Thomas A Kempis
That love is all there is,
Is all we know of love.
Emily Dickinson
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Christina Rossetti
And when love speaks, the voice
of all the gods makes heaven
drowsy with the harmony.
William Shakespeare
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
Edgar Allen Poe
Love is a god
Strong, free, unbounded,
And as some define
Fears nothing, pitieth none.
John Milton
But whenever I see you, I burst apart
And scatter the sky with my blazing heart.
It spits and sparkles in stars and balls,
Buds into roses--and flares, and falls.
Amy Lowell
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry.
W.H. Auden
All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of love
And feed this sacred flame.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!
William Wordsworth
She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said-
'I love thee true'.
John Keats
A pity beyond all telling
Is hid in the heart of love.
W.B. Yeats
Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.
George Gordon, Lord Byron
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
Robert Frost
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods or steepy mountains yields.
Christopher Marlowe
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
Love is a haunting melody
That I have never mastered
And I fear I never will.
William S. Burroughs
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
And think not you can direct the
course of love. For love, if it finds
you worthy, directs your course.
Kahlil Gibran
I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.
John Donne
Many waters cannot quench love,
Neither can the floods drown it.
Song of Solomon 8:7
Love is of all the passions the strongest,
for it attacks simultaneously the head,
the heart, and the senses.
Voltaire
It warms me, it charms me,
To mention but her name;
It heats me, it beats me,
And set me a' on flame.
Robert Burns
Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought,
to have done...
Mathew Arnold
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day.
Andrew Marvell
Bid me to weep, and I will weep,
While I have eyes to see;
And, having none, yet I will keep
A heart to weep for thee.
Robert Herrick
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
T. S. Eliot
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.
Ben Jonson
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach....
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If I should meet thee after long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.....
Robert Browning
Love is exactly as strong as life.
Joseph Campbell