Robert Browning

Life in a Love

Escape me?
Never-
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
   So long as the world contains us both,
   Me the loving and you the loth,
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And baffled, get up to begin again,-
So the chase takes up one's life, that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound,
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope drops to ground
Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark,
I shape me-
Ever
Removed!

Love, romance and relationship quotes for your soul

• 'Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.'
  ~ Thornton Wilder
• 'A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.'
  ~ Mignon McLaughlin
• 'No man is truly married
  until he understands
  every word his wife is NOT saying.'
  ~ Unknown