Love Archives - The Final Paradox

No Longer Mourn for Me When I am Dead

No longer mourn for me when I am dead,
Than you shall hear the surly…

By William Shakespeare

When I Have Fears

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d…

Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon by Caspar David Friedrich

Meeting at Night

The gray sea, and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;…

By Robert Browning

A Walk at Twilight by Vincent van Gogh

Triumph of the Singer

I shake my hair in the wind of morning
For the joy within me that…

By John Hall Wheelock

Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl by Gustave Courbet

A Song

Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For…

By Thomas Carew

Woman Holding a Balance by Johannes Vermeer

Quotations/Religion

A Wise Lover

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love…

By Thomas à Kempis

Romeo and Juliet by Ford Madox Brown

I’ll Go On…

Extinguish my eyes, I’ll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I’ll go on hearing…

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Young Lady in Blue by Mișu Popp

She Walks in Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all…

Things That Grow

I like things with roots that know the earth,
Trees whose feet, nimble and brown,…

Thought

Thought is deeper than all speech,
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can…

By Christopher Pearse Cranch