Love poems

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
   And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
   As any she belied with false compare.


Citate de dragoste

  • 'Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.'
    ~ Boris Pasternak
  • 'What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.'
    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'
    ~ Somerset Maugham