Poems of Love

<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">From The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /><i>Love one another, <br />But make not a bond of love. <br />Let it rather be a moving sea <br />Between the shores of your souls <br />Fill each other’s cup <br />But drink not from the same cup <br />Sing and dance together and be joyous, <br />But let each one of you be alone <br />Even as the strings of the lute are alone <br />Though they cjuiver with the same music <br />Give your hearts, <br />But not into each other’s keeping <br />Far only the hand of life <br />Can contain your hearts <br />And stand together <br />Yet not too near together <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">      </span></i></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For the pillars of the temple stand apart <br />And the oak tree and the cypress <br />Grow not in each other’s shadow. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Taking Time to Love” by Rod McKuen</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Taking time to love is what it’s all about</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">what makes clocks turn and the sunsets come</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">true and without complication or staying always face to face</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s meant to cover walking, being apart and knowing</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">that coming back together makes small distances even smaller</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And taking time to love is, most of all, caring enough to</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">not hold on too tightly and yet not run too loose<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Or bends with the remover to remove: <br />0, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken; </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It is the star to every wandering bark,</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. <br />Love’s not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks <br />Within his bending sickle’s compass come; </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Love’s Philosophy” </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Percy Bysshe Shelley. </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The fountains mingle with the river, <br />And the rivers with the ocean, <br />The winds of heaven mix for ever <br />With a sweet emotion; <br />Nothing in the world is single; <br />All things by a law divine <br />In one another’s being mingle <br />Why not I with thine? <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">See the mountains kiss high heaven, <br />And the waves clasp one another; <br />No sister flower would be forgiven <br />If it disdained its brother; <br />And the sunlight clasps the earth, <br />And the moonbeams kiss the sea <br />And what are all these kissings worth, <br />If thou kiss not me? <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></i></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adapted from I Corinthians 13 on the love you hold as an ideal in your relationship </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /><i>Love is always patient and kind; <br />It is never jealous; <br />Love is never boastful or conceited; <br />It is never rude or selfish; <br />It does not take offence, <br />And it is not resentful. <br />Love takes no pleasure <br />In other people’s faults <br />But delights in the truth; <br />It is always ready to excuse, to trust, <br />to hope. <br />It is always ready to endure whatever <br />comes, and finally, <br />True love does not come to an end. </i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“To a Marriage” </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Brian Zouch</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /><i>In your hands you hold the key to life <br />The key to open up the door of love <br />The strength to face together joy or strife <br />And all of human frailties rise above <br />You take a vow this day to be as one <br />In all you do </i>— <i>in all that you aspire <br />And let there be no one beneath the sun <br />Who’d seek to put asunder your desire, <br />And let us wish this knot we tie this day <br />Be firm and strong against the test of time <br />And let our children’s children say <br />That all was good and right and fine. <br />And so in all humility and in this place <br />We cast your love into the hands of fate <o:p></o:p></i></span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For it is written true that all you face <br />If faced with love, you’ll triumph and be great. <br />For greatness lies within the souls of lovers <br />There is no power can tear it from your grasp <br />It bonds your hearts as one, to one another’s </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As Alpha and Omega —first and last.</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So go you forward from this place this day </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And as you journey ‘long the road of life </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Know that you stand together, come what may <br />For true love comes just once, not twice, not thrice. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Learn how to love” </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">adapted from Walter Rinder</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /><i>Every day you live, <br />Learn how to love, <br />Take time with each other, <br />Restore each other’s soul <br />With loving words. <br />Receive love <br />With </i>as <i>much understanding <br /></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As you give it </span></i></span><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Find that which is within yourselves </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Then you can share it with each other. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Do not fear this love, <br />And do nor fear this marriage, <br />But keep open hearts and sincere minds. <br />Be sincerely interested <br />in each other’s happiness, <br />Be, too, constant and consistent in your love, <br />And in your actions. <br />From this, as you know, comes security and strength. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All that we love deeply becomes a part of us <br />So even though .you retain your individuality, <br />Today in a real sense you also become one <br />In a true unity <br />That this may be deep and rewarding, <br />Today the day of your marriage, <br />Try to commit yourselves, <br />Fully and freely, and trustingly <br />To each other, without reservations. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></i></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I love thee to the depth and breadth and height </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight <br />For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. <br />I love thee to the level of every day’s <br />Most quiet need, by sun and candle light. <br />I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; <br />I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. <br />I love thee with the passion put to use <br />In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. <br />1 love thee with a love I seemed to lose <br />With my lost saints </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- <i>I love thee with the breath, <br />Smiles, tears, of all my life! </i>- <i>and, if God choose, <br />I shall but love thee better after death. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>

Poems of Love

From The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran: Love one another, But make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea Between the shores of your so...

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