Sunbeams and Songs for Partners
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play,
and to look up at the stars.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Day brighteners and early morning melodies.
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give
a sense of quiet in a crowded day
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning
can be exhilarating.
Jean Rhys
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem,
see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Make me a room... where I'll bloom... out of season.
should be a song title
I've been in God's pocket all my life.
AustinGranny
The path of true love isn't smooth,
the ruffled feathers sex can soothe,
soon ruffle againfor couples never
spend all their lives in bed together.
Gavin Ewart
Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies.
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
Cristopher Marlowe
I remember those years when we shared the joy of love,
that tiny little pond, hidden in the courtyard!
We were close and intimate, we never were apart,
meeting beneath flowers,
meeting beneath willows
a song sung at a feast among curtains of gold!
Yang Shen, translated by Jonathan Chaves in The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry
The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life;
gathering its roses and sunshine, and making the most that happens seem the best.
Dorothy Dix
Idyll
by Wendy Cope, from If I Don't Know.
© Faber and Faber, Ltd.
(after U. A. Fanthorpe)
We'll be in our garden on a summer evening,
Eating pasta, drinking white wine.
We won't talk all the time. I'll sit back,
Contemplating shadows on the red-brick path,
And marvel at the way it all turned out.
That yellow begonia. Our gabled house.
Later we'll stroll through Kingsgate Park.
My leg won't hurt, and we'll go home the long way.
Asked to imagine heaven, I see us there,
The way we have been, the way we sometimes are.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do
is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver
The old holy one replied: It is just this feeling that happens when a person walks through the woods at night, when the breeze is cool and the scent in the air is delicious. If another joins the traveler with a lantern, they can walk safely and joyfully together. But if they come to a crossroads and the one with the lantern departs, then the first must grope her way alone unless she carries her light within her.
I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.
Gandhi's Prayer For Peace
If you can combine patience and love, you have art. Anonymouse
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