Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- W B Yeats

I loved you; and I probably still do,
And for a while the feeling may remain--
But let my love no longer trouble you:
I do not wish to cause you any pain.
I loved you; and the hopelessness I knew
The jealousy, the shyness -- though in vain--
Made up a love so tender and so true,
As may God grant you to be loved again.
- Aleksander Pushkin

To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wildflower, And eternity in an hour.
- William Blake

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- H W Longfellow

If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
- W H Auden

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those that love us best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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