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Romantic love in Love and Relationships
Chat-up lines, first kisses, a corner shop after hours, a couple making up by a lake. And the ends: a smile that has died, a name that sounds like a funeral bell.
The quotes
17 quotes, in the order they happen.
In silence and tears
Byron · When We Two Parted · romantic love · loss
How they split up. The poem starts and ends on these words. Nothing was said. Everything was felt.
Half broken-hearted
Byron · When We Two Parted · romantic love · loss
Only half. He is angry as well as sad. She got over it. He did not.
They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear
Byron · When We Two Parted · loss · romantic love
Hearing her name is like a funeral bell.
Nothing in the world is single
Shelley · Love's Philosophy · romantic love
Everything in nature comes in pairs, he says. So why not us. It is a chat-up line in verse.
What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
Shelley · Love's Philosophy · romantic love
The last line. The sun kisses the earth, the waves kiss each other. Now kiss me.
I am quite sure she felt no pain
Browning · Porphyria's Lover · control · romantic love
He has just strangled her with her own hair. He is quite sure it did not hurt. He is not someone to be quite sure about anything.
I think of thee!
Barrett Browning · Sonnet 29: I think of thee! · romantic love · distance
The first words. She cannot stop thinking about him. The thoughts grow like vines round a tree.
my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree
Barrett Browning · Sonnet 29: I think of thee! · romantic love · distance
Her thoughts are wild vines climbing him. Too many. They hide the tree.
I do not think of thee—I am too near thee.
Barrett Browning · Sonnet 29: I think of thee! · romantic love
The last line. When he is here she does not need to think of him. He is too close to think about.
We stood by a pond that winter day
Hardy · Neutral Tones · loss · romantic love
The first line. A cold pond, a grey day. The end of something.
our souls tap out messages across the icy miles
Dooley · Letters from Yorkshire · distance · romantic love
Two people far apart, sending small messages. Not love. Not not love.
Too young maybe—but more's to do At harvest-time than bide and woo
Mew · The Farmer's Bride · control · romantic love
The farmer married a girl too young and had no time to be kind. He says so himself.
The brown of her—her eyes, her hair, her hair!
Mew · The Farmer's Bride · control · romantic love
The last line. He wants her and cannot have her. The words break down.
the waterlogged earth gulping for breath at our feet
Sheers · Winter Swans · romantic love · distance
A couple walk by a lake after a fight. Even the ground is struggling to breathe.
like a pair of wings settling after flight
Sheers · Winter Swans · romantic love
The last image. Their hands find each other. Like swans' wings folding.
from di stool each night she say
Nagra · Singh Song! · romantic love · parents and children
Every night his new wife sits on the stool and asks how much the moon costs. The poem is happy, and funny about it.
vee cum down whispering stairs
Nagra · Singh Song! · romantic love
They sit together and look at the moon over the shop. Love in a corner shop after hours.
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