SpokenVerse | Freedom and Love by Thomas Campbell (read by Tom O'Bedlam) @SpokenVerse | Uploaded May 2014 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Ruing means regretting. Not many people would agree with "Love's a fire that needs renewal of fresh beauty for its fuel..." What keeps love alive is intimacy and mutual benefit, meaning how much use the lovers are to one another. There's an Arabic proverb that says "if love isn't increasing, then it's decreasing". It means that a loving relationship is never static.
First Kiss and other pictures are downloadable desktop wallpapers:
1ms.net/first-kiss-306311.html
There's a charming article about The Art Of Kissing, an instruction manual written in 1936, here in BrainPickings.org
brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/14/the-art-of-kissing-hugh-morris
How delicious is the winning
Of a kiss at Love's beginning,
When two mutual hearts are sighing
For the knot there's no untying!
Yet remember, 'midst your wooing,
Love has bliss, but Love has ruing;
Other smiles may make you fickle,
Tears for other charms may trickle.
Love he comes, and Love he tarries,
Just as fate or fancy carries;
Longest stays when sorest chidden,
Laughs and flies when press'd and bidden.
Bind the sea to slumber stilly,
Bind its odour to the lily,
Bind the aspen ne'er to quiver,
Then bind Love to last for ever.
Love's a fire that needs renewal
Of fresh beauty for its fuel;
Love's wing moults when caged and captured,
Only free he soars enraptured.
Can you keep the bee from ranging,
Or the ringdove's neck from changing?
No! nor fetter'd Love from dying
In the knot there's no untying.
Ruing means regretting. Not many people would agree with "Love's a fire that needs renewal of fresh beauty for its fuel..." What keeps love alive is intimacy and mutual benefit, meaning how much use the lovers are to one another. There's an Arabic proverb that says "if love isn't increasing, then it's decreasing". It means that a loving relationship is never static.
First Kiss and other pictures are downloadable desktop wallpapers:
1ms.net/first-kiss-306311.html
There's a charming article about The Art Of Kissing, an instruction manual written in 1936, here in BrainPickings.org
brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/14/the-art-of-kissing-hugh-morris
How delicious is the winning
Of a kiss at Love's beginning,
When two mutual hearts are sighing
For the knot there's no untying!
Yet remember, 'midst your wooing,
Love has bliss, but Love has ruing;
Other smiles may make you fickle,
Tears for other charms may trickle.
Love he comes, and Love he tarries,
Just as fate or fancy carries;
Longest stays when sorest chidden,
Laughs and flies when press'd and bidden.
Bind the sea to slumber stilly,
Bind its odour to the lily,
Bind the aspen ne'er to quiver,
Then bind Love to last for ever.
Love's a fire that needs renewal
Of fresh beauty for its fuel;
Love's wing moults when caged and captured,
Only free he soars enraptured.
Can you keep the bee from ranging,
Or the ringdove's neck from changing?
No! nor fetter'd Love from dying
In the knot there's no untying.
