One Hundred Ways to Say, I Love You

One Hundred Ways to Say, I Love You

With expressions of the richness of love, each in its own unigue ways, it will inspire
you to put your own sentiments into words, and as a giftto a beloved one, it will say, I
love you

hope you find it useful

In vain have I Struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not repressed. You must allow me to tell how ardently I admire and love you

Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth Bennett
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
1813

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelights
I love thee freely, as men strive for right
I love thee purely, as men turn from Praise
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-61

You glow in my heart
Like the flames of uncounted candles
But when I go to warm my hands
My clumsiness overturns the light
And then I stumble
Against the tables and chairs

Amy Lowell
1874-1925

Pray, madam, don't put me to the expence of vows and oaths. I hate swearing under my hand. I love you in plaindownright terms

George Farquhar, playwright, to Mrs. C
c. 1707

,I have a cheese upon the shelf
;I cannot eat it all myself
,I have three good marks that lie in a rag
:In the nook of the chimney instead of a bag
?Say my Joan, say my Joaney, will that not do
.I cannot come every day to woo

,Anonymous
"The Ploughman's Wooing"

When you were a little child, as a boy i worshiped you: then when I saw you a comely girl, as a stripling I adored you: now you are a full-grown maiden, all the rest I do, and more - I love youmore than tongue can tell, or heart can hold in silence

,John Ridd to Lorna
,Lorna Doone
,by Richard Blackmore
1869

,Come live with me, and be my love
,And we will all the pleasure prove
,That valleys, groves, and hills, and fields
.Woods or steepy mountain yeilds

,Christopher Marlowe
1564-93

Dear, Lovely Mrs. Scurlock, I have been in a very good company, where your unknown name, under the character of a woman I loved best, has been often drunk; so that I may say I am dead drunk for your sake, which is more than, I die for you

,Richard Steele, essayist, to his future wife, Mary
1707

,If 'tis love to wish you near
,To tremble when the wind I hear
;Because at sea you floating rove
,If of you to dream at night
,To languish when you're out of sight
.If this be loving, then I love

,Charles Dibin
1745-1814