Fantasy world

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.



Irish Blessing

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.

May God be with you and bless you;
May you see your children's children.
May you be poor in misfortune,
Rich in blessings,
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward.

May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home
And may the hand of a friend always be near.

May green be the grass you walk on,
May blue be the skies above you,
May pure be the joys that surround you,
May true be the hearts that love you.



How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being an Ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old grief's, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.


Quotes from women about men ...

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
Agatha Christie

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy, fat women.
Marion Smith

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
Dorothy Parker

It's not the men in my life that count, its the life in my men.
Mae West

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Jean Kerr

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
Catherine II of Russia

No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Katherine Whitehorn

I like to wake up each morning felling a new man.
Jean Harlow

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
Mae West

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.
Maryon Pearson

The trouble with some woman is that they get all excited about nothing, and then marry him.
Cher

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland

Before marriage a man will lay awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage he'll fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
Helen Rowland

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie


Quotes from men about women

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy - If you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
Socrates

Marriage is a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximim of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw in his job and go to work in the brewery.
George Nathan

All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
Ogden Nash

A husband's last words should always be 'OK buy it'.
Nothing makes a good wife like a good husband.
Whoso findeth a wife, findeth a good thing.
The Bible

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
Oscar Wilde

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
Oscar Wilde

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake.
Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.
Marcel Achard