Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.
Interpretation
Love is a shared and reciprocal bond that transcends individuality.
In this quote, Christina Rossetti emphasizes that love is not just a personal feeling but a communal experience that unites people. By asserting that love should be both a 'token' and a shared condition, she highlights the importance of mutual affection and connection in relationships, suggesting that love is a precious gift to be cherished and freely given between individuals.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a wedding to signify the mutual love between partners.
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.
We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?
To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home,_x000D_ _x000D_ To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee_x000D_ _x000D_ I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.
Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.
I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.
Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless.
I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.
And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.
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