Love Letters

 “Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove /Of golden  sands, and crystal brooks, /With silver lines, and silver hooks.”  John Donne, “The Bait” 1633

“You could not…move an eyelid but it would shoot to  my heart.” John Keats

“…the air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy.” John Keats

“Give up your heart to me whose whole existence hangs upon you. I am greedy of you.” John Keats

“Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, /Or bends with the remover to remove: /O no! It is an ever-fixed mark /That looks on tempests and is never shaken; /It is the star to every wandering bark.”  Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 , 1609

“I suffer in my need for you.” Graffiti on a bridge in Broad Ripple, 1996

And my favorite:

“I can neither Eat nor Sleep for Thinking of You, my Dearest Love, I never touch even pudding!” Admiral Horatio Nelson

Happy Valentine’s Day.