For Valentine's Day . . . .

“Oh, ‘tis love, ‘tis love that makes the world go around” -
- according to the Duchess, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
The origin of the phrase may be a French song from the early 18th century:
C’est l’amour, c’est l’amour
Qui fait la monde
A la ronde.

A love letter

Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams - that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety. For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you. (Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849)

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A love poem

True love is a sacred flame
That burns eternally,
And none can dim its special glow
Or change its destiny.

True love speaks in tender tones
And hears with gentle ear,
True love gives with open heart
And true love conquers fear.

True love makes no harsh demands
It neither rules nor binds,
And true love holds with gentle hands
The hearts that it entwines. (Anon)

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And a love song by Jack Payne and his Orchestra from 1932



Today at John’s Gallery -
Five paintings by Adolphe-William Bouguereau
http://johnsgallery.blogspot.com

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