My Christian friends, in bonds of love, whose hearts in sweetest union join, Your friendship's like a drawing band, yet we mu...st take the parting hand. Your company's sweet, your union dear; Your words delightful to my ear, Yet when I see that we must part, You draw like cords around my heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ere I could Give him that parting kiss which I had set... Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father, And like the tyrannous breathing of the north Shakes all our buds from growing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the purpose of the many stops and starts will be made clear: Backing into the old affair of not wanting to grow... Into the night, which becomes a house, a parting of the ways Taking us far into sleep. A dumb love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look at your [English] ladies of quality--are they not forever parting with their husbands--forfeiting their reputations--and is t...heir life aught but dissipation? In common genteel life, indeed, you may now and then meet with very fine girls--who have politeness, sense and conversation--but these are few--and then look at your trademen's daughters--what are they?--poor creatures indeed! all pertness, imitation and folly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires;... By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; By all thy lives and deaths of love; By thy large draughts of intellectual day, And by thy thirsts of love more large then they; By all thy brim-fill'd Bowls of fierce desire, By thy last Morning's draught of liquid fire; By the full kingdom of that final kiss That seiz'd thy parting Soul, and seal'd thee his;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My own opinion is that [love] is felt most completely in marriage, or some comparable attachment of long duration. Love takes time.... What are called "love affairs" may afford a wide, and in retrospect, illuminating variety of emotions; not only fierce satisfactions and swooning delights, but the horrors of jealousy and the desperation of parting attend them; the hangover from one of these emotional riots may be long and dreadful. But rarely have the pleasures of love an opportunity to manifest themselves in such riots of passion. Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »