Sentimental Love Quotes and Poems

LOVE'S DELIGHT

Sentimental love quotes and poems set the mood for love and romance. Arm yourself with poesy for that special, romantic evening.

Set the scene with floating candles and blossoms in a crystal bowl, your favorite soft music, some exotic cheeses, grapes, crusty artisan bread, and, perhaps, a bottle of bubbly. Settle upon a furry rug in front of the fireplace and read love poems while gazing into your lover's eyes.

Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show
To move, but doth if the other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like the other foot, obliquely run.
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.

A Valediction forbidding Mourning DR. J. DONNE

All the heart was full of feeling: love had ripened into speech,
Like the sap that turns to nectar, in the velvet of the peach.

Adonais W.W. HARNEY

O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.

Progress of PoesyL T. GRAY

Still amorous, and fond, and billing.
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

Hudibras, Pt. III. Canto I S. BUTLER.

Then awake!--the heavens look bright, my dear!
'Tis never too late for delight, my dear!
And the best of all ways
To lengthen our days,
Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!

Young May Moon T. MOORE.

And, touched by her fair tendance, gladlier grew.

Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII MILTON.

Why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on.

Imparadised in one another's arms.

Paradise Lost, Bk. IV MILTON

I give thee all--I can no more
Though poor the offering be;
My heart and lute are all the store
That I can bring to thee.

My Heart and Lute T. MOORE

I've lived and loved.

Wallenstein, Pt. I. Act ii. Sc. 6 S.T. COLERIDGE.

LOVE'S PAINS

A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.

Gold A. COWLEY

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love;
The taint of earth, the odor of the skies
Is in it.

Festus, Sc. Alcove, and Garden P.J. BAILEY.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

On Sensibility R. BURNS.

Love is like a landscape which doth stand
Smooth at a distance, rough at hand.

On Love R. HEGGE

Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace,
That it is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him

Alexander the Great, Act i. Sc. 3 N. LEE.

To love you was pleasant enough,
And O, 't is delicious to hate you!

To T. MOORE.

LOVE'S UNITY

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.

Ingomar the Barbarian, Act ii

VON M. BELLINGHAUSEN

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

ToW. WORDSWORTH.

With thee, all toils are sweet; each clime hath charms;
Earth--sea alike--our world within our arms

The Bride of Abydos LORD BYRON.

He was a lover of the good old school,
Who still become more constant as they cool

Beppo, Canto XXXIVLORD BYRON.

Drink ye to her that each loves best,
And if you nurse a flame
That's told but to her mutual breast,
We will not ask her name.

Drink ye to her T. CAMPBELL.

Ignore the mundane world one evening and wax sentimental about love and romance.