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| How do I love thee? Let me count the ways I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need; by sun and candle-light I love thee freely, as men strive for Right I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, --I love thee with the breath Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. - Elizabeth Barrnett Browning |
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| Be my Valentine: What does that mean? Each of us must walk through life alone, More deeply desolate than we have known, Yearning for a truth we've never seen. Valentines are from beyond that dream, Are like a sunrise on a world of stone. Little on this journey can we own Except as miracles might intervene. No way but through loving might we give The freedom of our being to another In such sacrifice we hope to live No longer bound by dreams of flesh and bone, Even as we bind our lives together ~ Harmonious Blacksmith |
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| Hope is a breeze across an open field Anger comes from pounding on a door, Postive one wants the door to yield Perhaps this one senses something more. Yearning is a song to wake the dead Very few can yearn for what is theirs Although love waits half-naked on the bed, Life can seem a maze of doors and stairs. Each soul pursues the prey of it's desire, Not knowing that to have must mean to kill There is no deed that documents love's fire; In lover's hearts, one comes and goes at will. Need is a wind that strips the landscape bare; Eventually one turns.. and love is there. |
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| Will you be my Valentine? I know that I am yours You are like a tossing sea And I am like your shores You are like an endless wav And I your waiting sand And I will wait forever as You come and smooth my hand I will wait forever, yet You are a part of me I hold you in my arms, while You come to me endlessly Will you be my Valentine? I know that I am yours I love you with a love that yearns To be your golden shores ~ Daniel Rowe |
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| Value me for what I give you; All the rest hold in your heart Life does not fulfill our wishes; Even lifelong lovers part. Now let yourself be lulled by kisses, Take from the moment all that's due; Inter within what your heart misses, Nor let what's false destroy what's true. Enjoying love requires art. |
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| Through all eternity A joyful song I'll raise For oh! Eternity is too short To utter all my praise ~ Joseph Addison |
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