20SEP2024 – Quote of the Day

Love Poems

And the best of all ways

To lengthen our days

Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!

Oh, call it by some better name,

For friendship sounds too cold.

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms

Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,

Were to change by to-morrow 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.

No, the heart that has truly lov’d never forgets,

But as truly loves on to the close;

As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets

The same look which she turn’d when he rose.

Thomas Moore