Come listen, O Love, to the voice of the dove,
More quotes by Joaquin Miller
God can find a soul of beauty
Where it falls, as gems of worth
Are found by miners dark in earth.
That man who lives for self alone
Lives for the meanest mortal known.
Each gives to each, and like the star
Gets back its gift in tenfold pay.
This creature comes from out the dim
Far centuries, beyond the rim
Of time's remotest reach or stir.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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