8 quotes
Better be courted and jilted
Than never be courted at all.
The Jilted Nymph (1843)
There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Drink ye to her that each loves best!
And if you nurse a flame
That's told but to her mutual breast,
We will not ask her name.
Theodric: A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825)
I'll bid the hyacinth to blow,
I'll teach my grotto green to be;
And sing my true love, all below
The holly bower and myrtle tree.
Drink to her that each loves best,
And if you nurse a flame
That's told but to her mutual breast,
We will not ask her name.
O Love! in such a wilderness as this.
Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)
He more we live, more brief appear
Our life's succeeding stages;
A day to childhood seems a year,
And years like passing ages.
Never wedding, ever wooing,
Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,
Read you not the wrong you're doing
In my cheek's pale hue?
All my life with sorrow strewing;
Wed or cease to woo.