My heart bounds up to meet thee at my lips ; BETWEEN OUR KISSES. THE hours of love fill full the echoing space With sweet confederate music favourable. Now many memories make solicitous The delicate love-lines of her mouth, till, lit With quivering fire, the words take wing from it; As here between our kisses we sit thus Speaking of things remember'd, and so sit Speechless while things forgotten call to us. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, REPLETE WITH BLESSINGS. DOES she not come like Wisdom or good Fortune, Replete with blessings, giving wealth and honour? The dowry which she brings is Peace and Pleasure; And everlasting joy is in her arms. Rowe. Lee. LOST IN THE ECSTASY OF MEETING. THE air which thy smooth voice doth break, My life retires while thou dost speak, I join my trembling lips to thine, Forbear, Platonic fools! t' inquire But that which from these accents flows. BEFORE PARTING. ONE kiss more, sweet! Soft as voluptuous wind of the west, Drink up the honey and wine of my heart! One kiss more, sweet! Warm as a morning sunbeam's dewy gold Slips in a red rose's fragrantest fold, Sets its green blood all a-blush, burning up At the fresh feel of life, in its crimson cup! One kiss more, sweet! Full as the flush of the sea-waves grand Flooding the sheeny fire out of the sand; On all the shores of my being let bliss Break with its neap-tide sea in a kiss! Gerald Massey. LOVE. The Master, Love, A more ideal artist he than all. TENNYSON. Love first learn'd in a ladye's eye, But with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, SHAKESPEARE. Love is the purification of the heart from self; it strengthens and ennobles the character, gives a higher motive and a nobler aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman strong, noble, and courageous; and the power to love truly and devotedly is the noblest gift with which a human being can be endowed; but it is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols. MISS JEWSBURY. |