Romance Archives - The Final Paradox

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

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

Lovers in a landscape by Pieter Jan van Reysschoot

Flood of Emotion

It was still thundering in the distance; a soft rain was pouring down over the…

A Romance by Santiago Rusiñol

Her Divine Breath

How my heart beats when by accident I touch her finger, or my feet meet…

I Shall See Her Today!

‘I shall see her today!’ I exclaim in the mornings when I raise and look…

Romeo and Juliet on the Balcony by Julius Kronberg

The Last Little Star

I want to put flowers in your hair. But what flowers? There are none with…

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Muted Tones

Calm in the half-light
Cast by the high branches
Let the deep quiet
Reach into…

By Paul Verlaine

Little You Know

O you whom I often and silently come where you are that I may be…

By Walt Whitman

A Transparent Summer Morning

I mind how once we lay, such a transparent summer morning;
How you settled your…

By Walt Whitman

Leaving by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro

To You

Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
I fear these…

By Walt Whitman