What poets say about love

پاسخ : What poets say about love

In peace, Love tunes the shepherd’s reed;
In war, he mounts the warrior’s steed;
In halls, in gay attire is seen;
In hamlets, dances on the green.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.


Scott””Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto III. St. 2
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پاسخ : What poets say about love

It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind.


Scott””Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto V. St. 13
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پاسخ : What poets say about love

Where shall the lover rest,
Whom the fates sever
From his true maiden’s breast,
Parted for ever?
Where, through groves deep and high,
Sounds the far billow,
Where early violets die,
Under the willow.


Scott””Marmion. Canto III. St. 10
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پاسخ : What poets say about love

Magis gauderes quod habueras,
quam moereres quod amiseras.

Better to have loved and lost,
than not to have loved at all.
(Free trans.)


Seneca””Epistles. 99
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پاسخ : What poets say about love

Odit verus amor nec patitur moras.

True love hates and will not bear delay.


Seneca””Hercules Furens. 588





Qui amat, tamen hercle si esurit, nullum esurit.

He that is in love, faith, if he be hungry, is not hungry at all.


Plautus””Casina. IV. 2. 16
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پاسخ : What poets say about love

Amor et melle et felle est fœcundissimus:
Gustu dat dulce, amarum ad satietatem usque aggerit.


Love has both its gall and honey in abundance:
it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.


Plautus””Cistellaria. I. 1. 71
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پاسخ : What poets say about love

Auro contra cedo modestum amatorem.

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.


Plautus””Curculio. I. 3. 45




Qui in amore præcipitavit pejus perit, quam si saxo saliat.

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.


Plautus””Trinummus. II. 1. 30
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پاسخ : What poets say about love

A lover’s soul lives in the body of his mistress.


Plutarch



Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv’d my sheep.


Pope””Autumn. L. 79
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پاسخ : What poets say about love

Is it, in Heav’n, a crime to love too well?
To bear too tender or too firm a heart,
To act a lover’s or a Roman’s part?
Is there no bright reversion in the sky
For those who greatly think, or bravely die?


Pope””Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady
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پاسخ : What poets say about love

Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
’Tis true the hardest science to forget.


Pope””Eloisa to Abelard. L. 189





One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.


Pope””Eloisa to Abelard. L
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