Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain, Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink and rise and sink and rise and sink again.

Sonnet What love isn't ; Edna St Vincent Millay ... Love Armed A good example of the lover's complaint, Aphra Behn, a woman author of the 17th century

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving, O, but with mine, ... If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied!

All I Ever Wanted Was to Love You ... Be with Us in the Circle of Our Love ... Families Are Created Out of Love

IV. "Why do I love the silence of the moon" ... IX. "How love ran on with us his varying course" ... Call love and lust: throiugh battle's bloody swarm

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I could sing you love songs, recite poems but then you might cry . I could talk about what the future holds for you and for me . We could open a book and discover how it all begun .

For example Sonnet 20 focuses on homosexual male love and misogyny. Whereas Sonnet 130 demonstrates the flip-side of misogyny and the speaker seems to portray the realness of his beloved.

Translated by Stephen Mitchell An Italian sonnet (Petrarchan form), where the 14 lines are divided as 8 (octave) + 6 (sestet). ... [422] Sonnet XVII: Love

The example of one stimulates another; speculation rises on speculation; bubble rises on bubble; ... Love Like Hate