The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. The Return of the Native (1878)
For winning love we win the risk of losing,And losing love is as one's life were riven. Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease. A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)
For incensed love breathes quick and dies,When famished love a-lingering lies. Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
It surely is far sweeter and more wiseTo water love, than toil to leave anonA name whose glory-gleam will but adviseInvidious minds to quench it with their own. Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)