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Best verses about love
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Subject: Best verses about love From: Cyparissa Date: 15 Nov 08 - 08:20 PM Hello all! I've recently been scanning my folk song collection to find the best lines about love, but I'm having an awful lot of trouble finding something appropriate. Basically, I'm getting married this summer (hopefully! There's still a lot of visa work to do, not to mention organizing...), and I've been designing wedding rings for myself and my fiance. For mine, I'd very much love to have a line from a folk song inscribed on the inside- it would really mean a lot to me. The trouble is, most folk songs are tragic and/or morbid, as I'm sure you've all noticed, so finding something appropriate is very difficult. So far, I've got the final line of "When My Love and I Parted," which, despite the title, actually works: "No fate can sever my love from me, for his heart is a river and mine the sea." I've also considered a verse from Jean Ritchie's "One I Love," though it's a bit long for an inscription: "When the fire to ice will turn, and when the icy sea will burn, and when those rocks will melt in the sun, my love for you has just begun." Does anyone else have any suggestions? I'd prefer lines from traditional songs, but any good lines would be appreciated. :) Thanks! |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: oldhippie Date: 15 Nov 08 - 08:41 PM David Mallett - "Life is a rainstorm, but love is the ark" |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Jack Campin Date: 15 Nov 08 - 08:46 PM I love my love because I know my love loves me. (final line of The Maid in Bedlam) |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 16 Nov 08 - 03:26 AM Until they come to get me, I will hold your hand in mine. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: GUEST,Seamermar Date: 16 Nov 08 - 06:23 AM Nice to be here among you, talking and sharing songs and poetry, There's a lot of love's songs I love, so it seems this is gonna be the longest thread ever. One for starting could be : What the old time masters had it's what I feel for you love is love and doesn't chage in a century or two. ripped out from "Before my time." A beautiful song. See you |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Gedi Date: 16 Nov 08 - 06:52 AM How about a line from that wonderful Donovan Song, Catch the Wind - "For me to love you, now would be the sweetest thing, 'twould make me sing" |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: quokka Date: 16 Nov 08 - 06:53 AM You are my sorrow, you are my splendour You are my shelter through storm and through strife You are the one I will always remember All of the days of my life Possibly not suitable for your purpose but it is such a beautiful song - 'My Antonia' by Emmy Lou Harris and Dave Matthews. Cheers, Quokka |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: GUEST,Volgadon Date: 16 Nov 08 - 08:09 AM Searching for Lambs has some great lines. O stay! O stay! you handsome maid, And rest a moment here, For there is none but you alone That I do love so dear. How gloriously the sun doth shine, How pleasant is the air; I'd rather rest on a true love's breast Than any other where. For I am thine and thou art rnine; No man shall uncomfort thee. We'll join our hands in wedded bands And a-married we will be. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: topical tom Date: 16 Nov 08 - 12:26 PM Tom Paxton- "Home to me is anywhere you are". |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Art Thieme Date: 16 Nov 08 - 01:34 PM Love it is a killing fit, Beauty, it's a blossom, And if you want your finger bit Just stick it at a possum;-----Fod! (from Frank Warner) Art |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Art Thieme Date: 16 Nov 08 - 01:37 PM We have a flower in me garden, They call it Marry Gould, And if ya do not when you may, Ye shall not when ya would! (from Ewan MacColl) |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Big Mick Date: 16 Nov 08 - 01:51 PM When Amsterdam is golden in the morning Margaret brings him breakfast She believes him He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow He's mad as he can be but Margaret only sees that sometimes Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes Michael Smith The Dutchman |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Art Thieme Date: 16 Nov 08 - 09:09 PM Touch me when I'm bowling, Touch me when I'm snowmobiling, When I'm cleaning the cat litter Surprise me with your hands, And lightly, with kung fu-- Touch me! (a parody after Utah Phillips) There was an old woman who loved a swine, "Piggy," said she, "Piggy, dear, will you be mine?" "Snort!" -- said he!! (This kind of relationship happens much more than we men would like to admit.) This young couple were childhood sweethearts, She was a child and he was a hood, They lived a life of blissful, pure devotion, Their song is ended, and I think that's good! (I wrote the song -- called "That's The Ticket" ----- but it was Carol that came up with that 'childhood' line!! So I stole it.)-- ----Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: BK Lick Date: 16 Nov 08 - 10:44 PM Love doesn't die Love is like a river Coming from the mountain above Into the valley below You can try to change the way that it's going But you're never gonna keep it from flowing Love doesn't die Love doesn't die —Tom Dundee |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 16 Nov 08 - 11:14 PM "When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near." --Harburg and Lane, "Finian's Rainbow" -------------------- Mick, great choice! I once listened to Tommy Makem's recording of "The Dutchman" four times in succession. It is a haunting song of both love and mortality. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle Date: 17 Nov 08 - 06:28 AM From False Lover One Back: There's comfort comfortless There's honey for the bee And if there's none but me for you There'll be none but you for me. From Flash Company: A tree it will grow in the midst of the sea Before I prove false to the one who loves me But the sea will run dry and the tree it willmove Before I prove false to the one that I love |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: kendall Date: 17 Nov 08 - 07:22 AM "If you cheat again he'll have to move the flowers." If that don't chill you, you aint human. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: kendall Date: 17 Nov 08 - 07:38 AM Seriously, "There's a ghost in the hallway,he sings an old song of a soldier and maiden whose love was so strong, But he died in some battle far over the sea And she walks by the water and weeps quietly." and "I feel like an oak tree that's caught in the wind And my branches are too old to bend." (Dave Mallett) And, "My life had been a wilderness, Unblessed by fortune's gale, Had fate not linked my lot to hers The Rose of Allendale." |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: kendall Date: 17 Nov 08 - 08:01 AM "I'll give you back your ring and letters, And the picture I loved so well, And henceforth we will meet as strangers, But, I will never say farewell." (Fond affection) |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: GUEST,Golightly Date: 17 Nov 08 - 11:50 AM Not a folk song, but my favourite love-lines are from The Pretenders 'Back on the Chain Gang': Like a break in the battle, was your part In the wretched life of a lonely heart |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Art Thieme Date: 17 Nov 08 - 03:39 PM Last Saturday night I got married Me and my wife settled down, Now me and my wife are parted, Gonna take another stroll downtown. "Goodnight Irene" Art |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 17 Nov 08 - 05:55 PM "For mine, I'd very much love to have a line from a folk song inscribed on the inside.." "She chose my hands to lay her heart on" ('First Robin of Springtime' by Bruce Murdoch) |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Peter T. Date: 17 Nov 08 - 07:25 PM "But of all these friends and lovers, There is no one compares with you, And these memories lose their meaning, When I think of love as something new -- though I know I'll never lose affection, for people and things that went before, I know I'll often stop and think about them -- In my life I love you more." yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Art Thieme Date: 17 Nov 08 - 07:30 PM Roll your leg over, Roll your leg over, Roll your leg over The man in the moon. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Bobert Date: 17 Nov 08 - 08:02 PM "She broke my heart so I busted her jaw".... Spooky Tooth Awww, jus' funnin'... How 'bout... "Love hurts" by Nazareth... No, that won't do... How bout... "If ya' don't start drinkin', I'm gonna leave" by Bad Boy George Thorgood..... Don't like any of them then try this one... "Love is measured by what one is willing to give up for it"... Don't know who wrote that but it sums it up purdy nicely... B~ |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Joe_F Date: 17 Nov 08 - 11:20 PM O love, love, love, Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a puir body Gang about his business. -- James Hogg Who loves the glass without the G, Take away L and that is he. -- Trad. Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put _that_ in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me! -- Leigh Hunt Hail, sovereign queen of secrets, who hast power To call the fiercest tyrant from his rage, And weep unto a girl; that hast the might, Even with an eye-glance, to choke Mars's drum And turn th' alarm to whispers; that canst make A cripple flourish with his crutch, and cure him Before Apollo; that mayst force the king To be his subject's vassal, and induce Stale gravity to dance; the poll'd bachelor, Whose youth, like wanton boys through bonfires, Have skipp'd thy flame, at seventy thou canst catch, And make him, to the scorn of his hoarse throat, Abuse young lays of love. What godlike power Hast thou not power upon? To Phoebus thou Add'st flames, hotter than his; the heavenly fires Did scorch his mortal son, thine him. The huntress All moist and cold, some say, began to throw Her bow away, and sigh. Take to thy grace Me thy vow'd soldier, who do bear thy yoke As 'twere a wreath of roses, yet is heavier Than lead itself, stings more than nettles. I Have never been foul-mouth'd against thy law, Nev'r reveal'd secret, for I knew none, would not, Had I kenn'd all that were. I never practiced Upon man's wife, nor would the libels read Of liberal wits. I never at great feasts Sought to betray a beauty, but have blush'd At simp'ring sirs that did. I have been harsh To large confessors, and have hotly ask'd them If they had mothers; I had one, a woman, And women 'twere they wrong'd. I knew a man Of eighty winters -- this I told them -- who A lass of fourteen brided. 'Twas thy power To put life into dust: the aged cramp Had screw'd his square foot round, The gout had knit his fingers into knots, Torturing convulsions from his globy eyes Had almost drawn their spheres, that what was life In him seem'd torture. This anatomy Had by his young fair fere a boy, and I Believ'd it was his, for she swore it was, And who would not believe her? Brief, I am To those that prate and have done, no companion; To those that boast and have not, a defier; To those that would and cannot, a rejoicer. Yea, him I do not love that tells close offices The foulest way, nor names concealments in The boldest language. Such a one I am, And vow that lover never yet made sigh Truer than I. O then, most soft sweet goddess, Give me the victory of this question, which Is true love's merit, and bless me with a sign Of thy great pleasure. -- Shakespeare |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Nov 08 - 10:19 AM Cyparissa, I hope you have a really fat finger and a really large ring, to sport some of these suggested inscriptions! ;-D Your first choices weren't bad. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Bryn Pugh Date: 19 Nov 08 - 10:23 AM I wonder, by my troth ! What thou and I Did, till we loved ? were we not weaned till then ? Or sucked on country pleasures, childishly, Or snorted in the seven sleepers' den. 'Twas so. But this, all pleasures fancies be. If ever any beauty I did see Which I desired, and got, 'Twas but a dream of thee. John Donne - The Good Morrow. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Georgiansilver Date: 19 Nov 08 - 11:14 AM My love is like the red red rose, that's newly sprung in June. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: mayomick Date: 19 Nov 08 - 11:36 AM till all the seas gang dry my dear |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: kendall Date: 19 Nov 08 - 01:03 PM "There you are, here I am, and here we go again" (Dave Mallett) |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Dave the Gnome Date: 19 Nov 08 - 01:21 PM Funnily enough I just posted Ernie - the fastest milkman in the west. to the best love story thread. I am sure you will find something useful there:-D If not, lines abound in both 'The Rose' and 'The wind beneath my wings'. Cheers and good luck. DeG |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Peter T. Date: 19 Nov 08 - 01:24 PM Hey Amos, being lazy, what's that Shakespeare from? yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: fat B****rd Date: 19 Nov 08 - 01:27 PM "Until the twelfth of never" |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Dave the Gnome Date: 19 Nov 08 - 03:23 PM Hmmm, I dunno, FB. That IS a long, long time... Really vague question here but there is a beautiful love somg that was apparantly written by a Monk in, I think, the middle ages. I am sure it has gained some popularity recently and may have been used in some film or advert. Can anyone put me out of my misery? Without resorting to a shotgun that is. DeG |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Cyparissa Date: 19 Nov 08 - 09:01 PM Thanks everyone for your great suggestions. :) Sadly, my finger isn't fat enough for a very long inscription...though maybe if it was inscribed both inside and out... Anyway, are you thinking of Dark Night of the Soul, David? [link] I agree that it's absolutely gorgeous, but I couldn't find anything succinct enough for a ring. :/ |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Bobert Date: 19 Nov 08 - 09:22 PM "Twelth of Never" is the sappiest love song that has ever been written... Bar none... "I'll love you 'til the blues bells forget to bloom I've love you 'til the clover has lost its perfume I've love you 'til the poet runs out of rhyme Until the 12th of Never And that's a long, long time... Man, geeze, oh pete... That is some sappy stuff... Whatever??? B~ |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: fat B****rd Date: 20 Nov 08 - 07:42 AM ...guess I'm just an old sappy softie , Bobert. Actually I only like the title line. :-) fB. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine Date: 20 Nov 08 - 07:52 AM from the Turtle Dove (many variants thereof) The tides shall cease to beat the shore And the stars fall from the sky But I shall love you more and more Until the day I die Then let the seas run dry sweetheart And the rocks melt in the sun For thou and I shall never part Til all these things be done My wife and I did seriously consider having half a line each from this verse, but in the end the rings we chose were too small to fit anything on.. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: kendall Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:26 AM "But the heart beats on as warmly now, As when the summer days were neigh, The sun can never dip so low A down affections cloudless sky. (Lorena) " How happy we were for a day, Like lovebirds we dwelt 'neath the bower, And the brightness of Cora's sweet smile, Seemed to rival the blush of the flowers, But, happiness fades like the rose, Before the first full of the moon, The Grim Reaper knocked at my door, And took Cora my pretty quadroon." Farewell to Kentucky's green hills Farewell to Kentucky's green braes Farewell to the green grassy fields Where Cora and I often strayed To this old world I'll soon say 'Farewell' My heart will find rest in the tomb But my spirit will fly to the spot And watch over my pretty quadroon. My Pretty Quadroon) |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Snuffy Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:43 AM Believe me if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly today, Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my arms, Like fairy gifts, fading away. Thou wouldst still be adored as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart, Would entwine itself verdantly still. It is not while beauty and youth are thine own, And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear, That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known, To which time will but make thee more dear. Oh, the heart that has truly loved ne'er forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets, The same look which she gave when he rose. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Art Thieme Date: 20 Nov 08 - 06:00 PM Friends, I only had levity on my mind when I added the humorous love verses to this nice thread. No offense was intended .. at all. Live and learn. Art |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Joe_F Date: 20 Nov 08 - 09:21 PM Peter T.: I think you must mean me, not Amos. The speech is from _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, by Shakespeare & Fletcher, and (I gather) is usually attributed to Shakespeare. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Uncle Phil Date: 20 Nov 08 - 09:37 PM Love's a word I never throw around -- Robert Earl Keen, Jr. Love's a word I never throw around, So when I say I love you til' the end, I'm talkin' about until the day they lay me in the ground, Love's a word I never throw around. |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: kendall Date: 20 Nov 08 - 09:49 PM Snuffy, I have always loved that song. I thought it was "melt" in my arms? |
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Subject: RE: Best verses about love From: Joe_F Date: 21 Nov 08 - 08:41 PM The soldier loves his rifle, The scholar loves his books, The farmer loves his horses, The film star loves her looks. There's love the whole world over, Wherever you may be. Some lose their rest for gay Mae West, But you're my cup of tea. -- W. H. Auden More than a catbird hates a cat Or a criminal hates a clue Or the Axis hates the United States, That's how much I love you. -- Ogden Nash |
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