Quotes on Thee

Does not all the blood within me_x000D_ _x000D_ Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,_x000D_ _x000D_ As the springs to meet the sunshine.

My doom is, I love thee still._x000D_ _x000D_ Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

We love but while we may;_x000D_ _x000D_ And therefore is my love so large for thee,_x000D_ _x000D_ Seeing it is not bounded save by love.

Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love. Hold thee therein and thou shalt learn and know more in the same. But thou shalt never know nor learn therein other thing without end. Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord's meaning.

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell_x000D_ _x000D_ To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!_x000D_ _x000D_ He prayeth well, who loveth well_x000D_ _x000D_ Both man and bird and beast.

And in Life's noisiest hour,_x000D_ _x000D_ There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,_x000D_ _x000D_ The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy._x000D_ _x000D_ You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore.

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.