Relationships and Family
John Donne
But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.
John Donne
Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.
John Donne
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest, Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp North, without declining West?
John Donne
I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then But suck’d on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers’ den?
John Donne
And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
William Shakespeare
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
William Shakespeare
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
William Shakespeare
Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still.
William Shakespeare
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
And ruin’d love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
William Shakespeare
O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem’d my flame to qualify.
William Shakespeare
That is my home of love: if I have rang’d, Like him that travels, I return again.
William Shakespeare
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou know’st thy estimate.
William Shakespeare
Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass, And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye, When love, converted from the thing it was, Shall reasons find of settled gravity.