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Give us one heart, one tongue, one faith, one love.
Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)
Love, the master, goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
Just as he please — just as he please.
Poems (1859)
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.
In marriage there must be perfect unity;—one aim, one faith, one love, or the marriage is incomplete, unholy—a mere civil contract and no more.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
John held strongly the opinion that so solemn a festival as marriage is only desecrated by outward show.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
I think a wife is bound to the very last to obey in all things not absolutely wrong, her husband's will.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning,
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning;
Never was owl more blind than a lover,
Drink and be merry, lads, half seas over.
Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)
O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.
Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)
Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
But Love, the master goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
Just as he please—just as he please.
[T]he only real parting is when there is no love left to part from.
Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
Love given willingly, full and free,
Love for love's sake — as mine to thee.
Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
But Love, the master, goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
Just as he please — just as he please.
Poems (1859)