Ma vie a son secret, mon âme a son mystére:
Un amour éternel en un moment concu.
La mal est sans remède, aussi j'ai dû le taire,
Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.
One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall;
A mighty love within my breast has grown,
Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known;
And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all.
FELIX ARVERS-Sonnet. Trans. by JOSEPH
KNIGHT. In The Athenæum, Jan. 13, 1906.
Arvers in Mes Heures Perdues, says that the
sonnet was mite de l'italien."

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Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sun what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd;
Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
Ask of thyself what beauty is.

BAILEY-Festus. Sc. A Party and Entertain

ment.

Mein Herz ich will dich fragen,

Was ist denn Liebe, sag? "Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke, Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag." My heart I fain would ask thee What then is Love? say on. "Two souls and one thought only

Two hearts that throb as one." VON MÜNCH BELLINGHAUSEN (Friedrich Halm) -Der Sohn der Wildniss. Act II. Trans. by W. H. CHARLTON. (Commended by author.) Popular trans. of the play is by MARIE LOVELL-Ingomar the Barbarian. Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.

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(See also DU BARTAS)

To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole,
But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.

WILLIAM BLAKE-Couplets and Fragments. IV.

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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,

"Tis woman's whole existence: man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart,

Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart,

And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.

BYRON-Don Juan. Canto I. St. 194. (See also CROWE, DE STAËL)

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The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name. BYRON-The Giaour. L. 1,099.

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Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven;
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Allah given
To lift from earth our low desire.
BYRON-The Giaour. L. 1,131.

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Why did she love him? Curious fool!-be stillIs human love the growth of human will? BYRON-Lara. Canto II. St. 22.

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I'll bid the hyacinth to blow,

I'll teach my grotto green to be; And sing my true love, all below The holly bower and myrtle tree. CAMPBELL Caroline. Pt. I.

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My love lies bleeding.

CAMPBELL O'Connor's Child. St. 5.

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He that loves a rosy cheek,

Or a coral lip admires,

Or from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires,

As Old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.
THOS. CAREW-Disdain Returned.

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Then fly betimes, for only they
Conquer love, that run away.
THOS. CAREW-Song. Conquest by Flight.
(See also BUTLER under WAR)

21

Of all the girls that are so smart
There's none like pretty Sally;
She is the darling of my heart,
And lives in our alley.

HENRY CAREY-Sally in our Alley.

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Let Time and Chance combine, combine!
Let Time and Chance combine!
The fairest love from heaven above,
That love of yours was mine,
My Dear!

That love of yours was mine.
CARLYLE-Adieu.

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Vivamus, mea Lesbia atque amemus. My Lesbia, let us live and love. CATULLUS-Carmina. V. 1.

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Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,

In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.
What woman says to fond lover should be
written on air or the swift water.
CATULLUS-Carmina. LXX. 3.

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Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem. It is difficult at once to relinquish a longcherished love.

CATULLUS-Carmina. LXXVI. 13.