Bores Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Do not say, 'I love her for her smile—her…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I do not love thee less for what is done, And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness Hath brought thee nearer to me, and…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not…

— Peter Abelard

“Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet, O love, to lay down fear at love’s fair feet; Shall not some fiery memory…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Why, such is love's transgression. Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest With more…

— William Shakespeare

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“ O Deus Ego Amo Te Oh God, I love Thee mightily, Not only for Thy saving me, Nor yet because who love not…

— Robert Hugh Benson

“ My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His None ever was in love with me but grief. She wooed me from…

— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for the fair form that was taken from me, the manner still…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti