Famous quotes containing the words thy love, thy and/or love:
“If but some vengeful god would call to me
From up the sky, and laugh: Thou suffering thing,
Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,
That thy loves loss is my hates profiting!”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“Show me no more those snowy breasts
With azure riverets branched
Where, whilst mine eye with plenty feasts
Yet is my thirst not staunched;
O Tantalus, thy pains neer tell,
By me thou are prevented;
Tis nothing to be plagued in Hell,
But thus in Heaven tormented.”
—Michael Drayton (15631631)
“But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)