Venus Et Adonis

“Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.””

— William Shakespeare

“Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible;Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee.'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.””

— William Shakespeare

“Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.””

— William Shakespeare

“She’s Love, she loves, and yet she is not lov’d.””

— William Shakespeare

“Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard they make no battery.””

— William Shakespeare

“Thus weary of the world, away she hies,And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aidTheir mistress mounted through the empty skiesIn her light chariot quickly is convey'd;Holding their course to Paphos, where their queenMeans to immure herself and not be seen.””

— William Shakespeare

“Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear””

— William Shakespeare

“O, learn to love, the lesson is but plain, And once made perfect, never lost again.””

— William Shakespeare

“The tender spring upon thy tempting lipShows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:Make use of time, let not advantage slip;Beauty within itself should not be wasted:Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their primeRot and consume themselves in little time.””

— William Shakespeare