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Afore I see you, I thought all women was alike ... But now ... I find what a reg'lar softheaded, inkered'lous turnip I must ha' been; for there ain't nobody like you, though I like you better than nothin' at all
,Sam Weller's valentine letter to Mary
,Pickwick Papers
,by Charles Dickens
1836
!How can I see you, and not love
?While you, as opening spring, are fair
,While cold as northern blasts you prove
?How can I love! and not despair
,Matthew Prior
1664-1721
Good God! How I feel! ... if I am not married in forty-eight hours I am no more ... I am half-dead. Good God! What will become of me? I shall go mad, most undoubtedly
,Prince Augustus, son of George III
,to Lady Augusta Murray
1793
سلام دوست عزیز
مطالبتان بسیار زیباست
تشکر
شاد باشید
یا علی
.My mind, without yours, is dead and cold as the dark midnight river when the moon is down
,Percy Bysshe Shelly
,to Mary Godwin
1814
Every moment
I'm from thy sight, the heart within my bosom
,Moans like a tender ihfant in its cradle
.Whose nurse had left it
,Thomas Otway
1652-85
I weep when I reflect that you will probably not receive the first intelligence from me until Saturday - much as you love me, I love you more ... Oh God! so near so far! Is our love not truly a celestial edifice - firm as heaven's vault
,Ludwig Van Beethoven, composer
,to an unknown woman
1801
,I sleep with thee and wake with thee
;And yet thou art not there
-I fill my arms with thoughts of thee
.And press the common air
Thy eyes are gazing upon mine
,When thou art out of sight
My lips are always touching thine
.At morning, noon, and night
,John Clare
1793-1864
I hate this deceitful, faithless world; I think no more of it; but my wandering heart still eternally seeks you, and is filled with anguish at having lost you, in spite of all the powers of my reason
,Peter Abelard, priest
,to Heloise, nun
c. 1119
When I go away from you
The world beats dead
.Like a slackened drum
,Amy Lowell
1874-1925