Here is a small corner
that I've dedicated to those lovelorns out there… nothing
much… just a bit of this and that… hehe…
The choice of wedding
anniversary gift varies slightly in different countries but the
one listed below is regarded as the most common :-
ANNIVERSARY
GIFTS
| 1st anniversary
| cotton
|
| 2nd anniversary
| paper
|
| 3rd anniversary
| leather
|
| 4th anniversary
| fruit, flowers
|
| 5th anniversary
| wooden
|
| 6th anniversary
| sugar
|
| 7th anniversary
| wool, copper
|
| 8th anniversary
| bronze, pottery
|
| 9th anniversary
| pottery, willow
|
| 10th anniversary
| tin
|
| 11th anniversary
| steel
|
| 12th anniversary
| silk, linen
|
| 13th anniversary
| lace
|
| 14th anniversary
| ivory
|
| 15th anniversary
| crystal
|
| 20th anniversary
| china
|
| 25th anniversary
| silver
|
| 30th anniversary
| pearl
|
| 35th anniversary
| coral
|
| 40th anniversary
| ruby
|
| 45th anniversary
| sapphire
|
| 50th anniversary
| golden
|
| 55th anniversary
| emerald
|
| 60th anniversary
| diamond
|
| 70th anniversary
| platinum
|
Here is something we
would learned and cherished…
Learning
with the Poets
"And
when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy
with the harmony."
"For
thy sweet love remember's such wealth brings that then I scorn
to changed my state with Kings."
"Their
images I loved I view in thee, and thou, all they, hast all the
all of me."
"Let
me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.
Love is not love
Which alters
when it alteration finds,
Or bends with
the remover to remove :
O, no! it
is an ever fix'd mark,
That looks
on tempests and is, never shaken;
It is the
star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's
unknown, although his height be taken,
Love's not
Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks,
Within his
bending sickl's compass come;
Love alters
not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears
it out even to the edge of doom,
If this be
error and upon me proved,
I never writ,
nor no man ever loved."
-W.Shakespeare
"I am
bound and fast bound so that from thee I cannot go; If I could
I would not so."
-Herrick,
The Bracelet
"My true
love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange
one for another given;
I hold his
dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never
was a better bargain driven;
My true love
hath my heart, and I have his.
His heart
in me keeps him and me in one,
My heart in
him his thoughts and senses guides;
He loves my
heart, for once it was his own,
I cherish
his because in me it bides:
My true love
hath my heart and have his."
-Sir Philip
Sidney, 1554-1586
"Ah,
how sweet it is to love!
Ah, how gay
is young Desire
And what pleasing
pains we prove
When we first
approach Love's fire!
Pains of love
be sweeter far
Than all other
pleasures are."
-John Dryden
"By Absence
this good means I gain,
That I can
catch her
Where none
can watch her,
In some close
corner of my brain:
There I embrace
and kiss her,
And so enjoy
her and none miss her."
-John Donne
"Nothing
is to man so dear
As woman's
love in good manner.
A good woman
is man's bliss,
There her
love right and steadfast is.
There is no
solace under heaven
Of all that
a man may name (nevene)
That should
a man so much gladden (glew)
As a good
woman that loveth true.
No dearer
in God's herd (hurde)
That a chaste
woman with lovely word."
-Robert Mannyng
of Brunne, 1260-1340
"Make
haste, therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime…
For none can
call againe the passed time"
-Edmund Spenser,
1552-1599
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chensk