Love Songs, Poems
, & QuotesIn my search for appropriate readings for the ceremony, I have come across so many beautiful works of poetry and music that celebrate love that I've found it hard to narrow it down to just one piece that can completely encompass the love I have for Kevin. Below are some works that I love and relate to which I thought I'd share.
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"I Don't Want To
Miss A Thing"
by Aerosmith
I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away and dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Every moment spent with you
Is a moment I treasure
Don't wanna close my eyes
Don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream would never do
I'd still miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
Laying close to you
Feeling your heart beating
And I'm wondering what you're dreaming
Wondering if it's me you're seeing
Then I kiss your eyes and thank God we're together
I just wanna stay with you
In this moment forever, forever and ever
Don't wanna close my eyes
Don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream would never do
I'd still miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
I don't wanna miss one smile
I don't wanna miss one kiss
I just wanna be with you
Right here with you, just like this
I just wanna hold you close
Feel your heart so close to mine
And just stay here in this moment
For all the rest of time
Don't wanna close my eyes
Don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream would never do
'Cause I'd still miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
Don't wanna close my eyes
Don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream would never do
I'd still miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
Don't wanna close my eyes
Don't wanna fall asleep, yeah
I don't wanna miss a thing
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Celtic Blessing for a
Lover
by Sian Bhuadha, trans. C. Matthews
You are the star of each night,
You are the brightness of every morning,
You are the story of each guest,
You are the report of every land.
No evil shall befall you, On hill nor bank,
In field or valley, On mountain or in glen.
Neither above nor below, Neither in sea
Nor on shore,
In skies above, Nor in the depths.
You are the kernal of my heart,
You are the face of my sun,
You are the harp of my music,
You are the crown of my company.
Love is patient and kind;
love is not jealous or boastful;
it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrong,
but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends...
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
Nay, it is Deity -
Unable they that love - to die
For Love reforms Vitality
Into Divinity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Give All To Love
Give all to love; Obey thy heart.
Robert Herrick
from To Electra
I dare not ask a kiss;
I dare not beg a smile;
Lest having that or this,
I might grow proud the while.
No, no, the utmost share
Of my desire shall be
Only to kiss the air
That lately kissed thee.
There is no fear in love;
but perfect love casteth out fear.
1 John 4:18
Behold, let us
love one another: for love is of God;
and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth God; for god is love...
and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1 John 4: 7-8, 16
Harry Kemp
from The Passing Flower
The countless generations
Like Autumn leaves go by:
Love only is eternal,
Love only does not die...
The great tragedy of life
is not that men perish,
but that they cease to love.
Plato
from Phaedrus
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
For one human being to love
another: that is perhaps
the most difficult of all our tasks,
the ultimate, the last test and proof,
the work for which all other work is
but preparation.
Of all forms of caution,
caution in love
is perhaps the most fatal
to true happiness.
Sonnet XVIII
by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet CXVI
by William Shakespeare
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-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle'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.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others,
and the delight in the recognition.
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
He who loves does not dispute:
He who disputes does not love.
Men always want to be a woman's first love;
women have a more subtle instinct:
what they like is to be a man's last romance.
Resources
The Little Book of Love. Baldock, John and Irvine, Margaret. Element Books Unlimited, 1997.
How Do I Love Thee? Emerick, Jana. Penguin Books, Inc., NY. 1995.
