What poets say about love ’Tis well to be merry and wise, ’Tis well to be honest and true; ’Tis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. As used by Maturin, for the motto to “Bertram,” produced at Drury Lane, 1816 It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. Published in “Songs of England and Scotland.” London, 1835. Vol. II. P. 73
پاسخ : What poets say about love I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still. Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)””Vanini
پاسخ : What poets say about love Love is all in fire, and yet is ever freezing; Love is much in winning, yet is more in leesing: Love is ever sick, and yet is never dying; Love is ever true, and yet is ever lying; Love does doat in liking, and is mad in loathing; Love indeed is anything, yet indeed is nothing. Thos. Middleton””Blurt, Master Constable. Act II. Sc. 2
پاسخ : What poets say about love I never heard Of any true affection but ’twas nipped. Thos. Middleton””Blurt, Master Constable. Act III. Sc. 2
پاسخ : What poets say about love He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all. Monckton Milnes””To Myrzha. On Returning
پاسخ : What poets say about love Such sober certainty of waking bliss. Milton””Comus. 263 Imparadis’d in one another’s arms. Milton””Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 50 So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. Milton””Paradise Lost. Bk. IX. L. 832
پاسخ : What poets say about love It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman’s love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit. Milton””Samson Agonistes. L. 1,010
پاسخ : What poets say about love If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, Because it was he; because it was I. There is beyond all that I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and fated power that brought on this union. Montaigne””Essays. Bk. I. Ch. XXVII Celuy ayme peu qui ayme à la mesure. He loves little who loves by rule. Montaigne””Essays. Bk. I. Ch. XXVIII
پاسخ : What poets say about love Yes, loving is a painful thrill, And not to love more painful still; But oh, it is the worst of pain, To love and not be lov’d again. Moore””Anacreontic. Ode 29
پاسخ : What poets say about love No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turn’d when he rose. Moore””Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms. St. 2
