“Only--but this is rare-- When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafen'd ear Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd-- A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know. A man becomes aware of his life's flow, And hears its winding murmur; and he sees The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.” KnowsMenWorldHeartMeanFeelingsHandsEyeLyingLostVoiceHoursSunClearShotsFlowEarsBelovedToneBreastsOur WorldInwardBreezePulseMeadowsBoltsCaressJadedGlare Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems
“Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.” LyingWomenFiguresLatePerfectionWeakBelovedAdolescenceAbsentWeak Points Author:Andre Maurois
“Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.” KnowsMenSoulDoneJoyLyingAngelBelovedPrizeCourtshipWooing Author:William Shakespeare
“Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?” HandsWantedLyingStarsSilenceSadnessFitDecadesBelovedLengthMelancholyPalmsPlaywrightFittingFortnight Book:The Clean House and Other Plays Source: The Clean House and Other Plays