Love poems

Dante Gabriel Rosetti

Sonnet 23: Love's Baubles

I stood where Love in brimming armfuls bore
   Slight wanton flowers and foolish toys of fruit:
   And round him ladies thronged in warm pursuit,
Fingered and lipped and proffered the strange store.
And from one hand the petal and the core
   Savoured of sleep; and cluster and curled shoot
   Seemed from another hand like shame's salute,-
Gifts that I felt my cheek was blushing for.

At last Love bade my Lady give the same:
   And as I looked, the dew was light thereon;
   And as I took them, at her touch they shone
With inmost heaven-hue of the heart of flame.
And then Love said: "Lo! when the hand is hers,
Follies of love are love's true ministers."


Citate de dragoste

  • 'Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.'
    ~ Mary Parrish
  • 'The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.'
    ~ Elie Wiesel
  • 'Other men said they have seen angels,
    But I have seen thee
    And thou art enough.'
    ~ G. Moore