A song of love

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That Paddles in a halcyon sea;
My hear is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.

- Christina Rossetti

Missing You

O that 'twere possible
After long grief and pain
To find the arms of my true love
Round me once again!

- Tennyson

Love is All

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Old Love

For those getting married this month, pledging to have and hold "'til death do us part," it is worth noting that love really does get better over time. As Samuel Butler wrote:

All love at first, like generous wine,
Ferments and frets until 'tis fine;
But when 'tis settled on the lee,
And from th' impurer matter free,
Becomes the richer still the older,
And proves the pleasanter the colder.

Open your heart...

...or as William Purkey suggested, "Dance like no one is watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like no one is listening, and live like it's heaven on earth."

Everybody now...

"Let those love now, who never lov'd before;
Let those who always lov'd, now love the more."

- Anonymous