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Words fail me ej.aculated Bernard horsly my passion for you is intense he added fervently ... When will you marry me Ethel he utterred you must be my wife it has come to that I love you so intensly that if you say no I shall perforce dash y body to the brinl of yon muddy river he panted wildly
,Bernard to Ethel
,The Young Visiters
,by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford
1919
.I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Lov'd I not Honour more
,Sir Richard Lovelace
1618-57
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence for ever
,Jane to Mr. Rochester
,Jane Eyre
,by Charlotte Bronte
1847
(I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart
,E. E. Cummings
1894-1962
I love you, Livy, - indeed I do love you Livy ... I love you beyond all expression, Livy - it is strange I never thought to tell you before. But I do love you, darling
,Mark Twain, writer, to his future wife, Olivia Langdon
1869
Having for several sundays had the pleasure of sitting near you in church I have been deeply impressed with a passionate love for you. My thoughts during the service are so wholly engrossed with your charms that I am afraid I require the forgiveness of heaven as well as of yourself
:The Penny Love Letter Writer
,A Comlete Guide to Correspondence
1883
Love is my religion - I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet. You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist
,John Keats, poet
,to Fanny Brawne
1819
,I can give you what men call love
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
...And the heavens reject not
,Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822
It is you that I lose myself for all eternity, and I have no further desires beyond this ineffable communion. To thee, then, in thee and for thee
,Leon Gambetta, statesman
,to Leonie Leon
1879
,But if thou wilt prove faithful then
,And constant of thy word
,I'll make thee glorious by my pen
...And famous by my sword
,Marquis Of Montrose
1612-50