:smack:
Yes, yes it should. Damn typo.
:smack:
Yes, yes it should. Damn typo.
Since you only have a few lines here is some Shakespeare:
They do not love that do not show their love.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
I wanna make you smile whenever youre sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I wanna do is grow old with you
Ill get your medicine when your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you
Ill miss you
Ill kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold
Ill need you
Ill feed you
Even let ya hold the remote control
So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink
Put you to bed if youve had too much to drink
I could be the man who grows old with you
I wanna grow old with you
Congratulations on your wedding, may you your life together more each passing day.
sorry I didn’t put that in the first post
Here’s the entire fragment known as “Western Wind”:
There’s an understood “that” at the start of the second line.
This one is from awoman to a man, but always struck me as one of the most romantic I’ve read:
The River-Merchant’s Wife
This one is ostensibly about the meanings of words, but I find it very romantic:
For a much very modern take on love, there’s the dry and bitter
Love, 20 cents the first quarter mile
which despite its own cynicism burns with passion.
Sailboat
Either of these two exerts from Percy Shelley’s Love’s Philosophy may fit your needs:
Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law devine
In one another’s being mingle -
Why not I with thine?
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea -
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
– e e cummings
Heh–I was thinking of this full sonnet, and decided it was too long. This is a great excerpt! It was the poem I gave at my brother’s wedding; I love its sentiments.
Daniel
Thank you so much everyone,
I have much thinking to do to pick one verse out of all these suggestions.
Probably too long for your requirements, but this poem by Yeats is beautiful for lovers starting out their life together:
Attention, everyone:
There is only one perfect poem in the world. It is by W. B. Yeats, and it is called “A Drinking Song.” It goes like this:
That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
This makes the word limit (and is appropriate for a champagne bottle)
Candy
is dandy
but liquor
is quicker
He had a fair wife
Who caused him much strife
Ooh, I just remembered a pretty good one for a man to give a woman on his wedding day:
Love Song, I and Thou by Alan Dugan.
Sailboat
for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy Faith my Faith: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried
(seems like someone has probably set that to music by now.)
“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.”
Seems fitting for a bottle of champagne.
Do you love me
Or do you not?
You told me once
But I forgot.
Given the write up for my favorite short romantic poem, I think it’s fair to say I myself am not a romantic. at all.