Love poems

Henry Constable

Damelus' Song to Diaphenia

Diaphenia, like the daffadowndilly,
White as the sun, fair as the lily,
          Heigh ho, how I do love thee!
I do love thee as my lambs
Are belovëd of their dams-
          How blest were I if thou wouldst prove me!

Diaphenia, like the spreading roses,
That in thy sweets all sweets incloses,
          Fair sweet, how I do love thee!
I do love thee as each flower
Loves the sun's life-giving power,
          For, dead, thy breath to life might move me.

Diaphenia, like to all things blessed,
When all thy praises are expressëd,
          Dear joy, how I do love thee!
As the birds do love the spring,
Or the bees their careful king,-
          Then in requite, sweet virgin, love me!

Citate de dragoste

• 'I love you - those three words have my life in them.'
  ~ Alexandrea to Nicholas III
• 'What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.'
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 'Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.'
  ~ Carl Jung