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Sweet to entrance

The raptured soul by intermingling glance.

Psyche.

MRS. TIGHE.

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved

Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

To

O that the desert were my dwelling-place,
With one fair Spirit for my minister,
That I might all forget the human race,
And, hating no one, love but only her!

Childe Harold, Cant. iv.

charms;
sea alike

The Bride of Abydos.

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WORDSWORTH.

Laodamía.

Of likely hearts.

Hymn in Honor of Beauty.

But neither breath of morn when she ascends

With thee, all toils are sweet; each clime hath With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun

On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower,
Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers,
Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night
With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon,
Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

Paradise Lost, Book iv.

MILTON.

our world within our arms.

BYRON.

TRUE LOVE.

Love is a celestial harmony

BYRON.

The Gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul;
A fervent, not ungovernable, love.

Thy transports moderate.

SPENSER.

WORDSWORTH.

In his deportment, shape, and mien appeared
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace,
Brought from a pensive, though a happy place.
He spake of love, such love as Spirits feel
In worlds whose course is equable and pure;
No fears to beat away, -no strife to heal,
The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

Laodamía.

WORDSWORTH.

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Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life; Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o'er thee.

Venice Preserved, Act v. Sc. 1.

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Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

The Bard, i. 3.

T. GRAY.

As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.
Fulius Cæsar, Act ii. Sc. I.

With thee conversing I forget all time;
All seasons and their change, all please alike.

CONSTANCY.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. Curse of Kehama, Cant. x.
Antony and Cleopatra, Act i. Sc. 1.

SHAKESPEARE.

T. OTWAY,

SHAKESPEARE.

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Doubt thou the stars are fire,

Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar,

But never doubt I love.
Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2.

SHELLEY.

R. SOUTHEY.

R. SOUTHEY.

SHAKESPEARE.

When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

Fulius Cæsar, Activ. Sc. 2.

SHAKESPEARE.

She hugged the offender, and forgave the offence.
Sex to the last.

Cymon and Iphigenia.

DRYDEN.

Lightly thou say'st that woman's love is false,
The thought is falser far.

Bertram.

You say to me-wards your affection 's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.

Love me little, love me long.

R. HERRICK.

Let those love now who never loved before,
Let those who always loved now love the more.
Pervigilium Veneris.

T. PARNELL.

INCONSTANCY AND JEALOUSY.

All love may be expelled by other love

As poisons are by poisons.

All for Love.

Frailty, thy name is woman!

Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 2.

A little month.

R. MATURIN.

Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 2.

Framed to make women false.
Othello, Act i. Sc. 3.

DRYDEN.

SHAKESPEARE.

SHAKESPEare.

Is once to be resolved.
Othello, Act iii. Sc. 3.

SHAKESPEARE.

SHAKESPEARE.

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Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, HAM. Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. OPH. 'T is brief, my lord. HAM. As woman's love.

Palamon and Arcite, Book ii.

Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 2.

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SHAKESPEARE.

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Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injured lover's hell.

Paradise Lost, Book v.

I've lived and loved.

Wallenstein, Part i. Act ii. Sc. 6.

DRYDEN.

Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend
From jealousy!

Othello, Act iii. Sc. 3.

They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!
The Arraignment of Paris: Cupid's Curse.

MILTON.

SHAKESPEARE.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
The Mourning Bride, Act iii. Sc. 8.

W. CONGREVE.

POSSESSION.

I die but first I have possessed,
And come what may, I have been blest.

The Graour.

Who love too much hate in the like extreme.
Homer's Odyssey.

POPE.

G. PEELE.

BYRON.

S. T. COLERIDGE.

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Mean, or in her summed up, in her contained
And in her looks, which from that time infused
Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before,
And into all things from her air inspired
The spirit of love and amorous delight.
She disappeared, and left me dark; I waked
To find her, or forever to deplore

Her loss, and other pleasures all abjure :
When out of hope, behold her, not far off,
Such as I saw her in my dream, adorned
With what all earth or Heaven could bestow
To make her amiable. On she came,
Led by her heavenly Maker, though unseen,
And guided by his voice, nor uninformed
Of nuptial sanctity and marriage rites:
Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.
I, overjoyed, could not forbear aloud :

"This turn hath made amends; thou hast fulfilled

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I led her blushing like the morn: all Heaven,
And happy constellations on that hour
Shed their selectest influence; the earth
Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill;
Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs
Whispered it to the woods, and from their wings
Flung rose, flung odors from the spicy shrub,
Disporting, till the amorous bird of night
Sung spousal, and bid haste the evening star
On his hill-top, to light the bridal lamp.

When I approach
Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,
And in herself complete, so well to know
Her own, that what she wills to do or say
Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best;
All higher knowledge in her presence falls
Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her
Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows
Authority and reason on her wait,
As one intended first, not after made
Occasionally; and, to consummate all,
Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat
Build in her loveliest, and create an awe
About her, as a guard angelic placed.

Neither her outside formed so fair, nor aught

So much delights me, as those graceful acts,
Those thousand decencies that daily flow
From all her words and actions, mixed with love
And sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned
Union of mind, or in us both one soul;
Harmony to behold in wedded pair
More grateful than harmonious sound to the ear.

MILTON.

TO A LADY BEFORE MARRIAGE. O, FORMED by Nature, and refined by Art, With charms to win, and sense to fix the heart! By thousands sought, Clotilda, canst thou free Thy crowd of captives and descend to me? Content in shades obscure to waste thy life, A hidden beauty and a country wife? O, listen while thy summers are my theme! Ah! soothe thy partner in his waking dream! In some small hamlet on the lonely plain, Where Thames through meadows rolls his mazy

train,

Or where high Windsor, thick with greens ar-
rayed,
Waves his old oaks, and spreads his ample shade,
Fancy has figured out our calm retreat;
Already round the visionary seat

Our limes begin to shoot, our flowers to spring,
The brooks to murmur, and the birds to sing.

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