Love poems

Sidney Lanier

Evening Song

Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands,
   And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea;
How long they kiss in sight of all the lands,
      Ah! longer, longer we.

Now, in the sea's red vintage melts the sun
   As Egypt's pearl dissolved in rosy wine
And Cleopatra night drinks all. 'Tis done,
      Love, lay thine hand in mine.

Come forth, sweet stars, and comfort heaven's heart,
   Glimmer, ye waves, 'round else unlighted sands;
Oh night! divorce our sun and sky apart
      Never our lips, our hands.

Citate de dragoste

• 'To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.'
  ~ David Viscott
• 'A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.'
  ~ Mignon McLaughlin
• 'I love you - those three words have my life in them.'
  ~ Alexandrea to Nicholas III