Romantic
The Romantic aesthetic lives in service to the heart and all it desires. Warm colours, lush flowers and endless candles… all with poems that celebrate the innocent joy of love.
14 poems
For a new beginningby John O'Donohue, 1956 ~ 2008“The delight when your courage kindled and out you stepped onto new ground”
How do I love theeby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 ~ 1861“if God choose I shall but love thee better after death”
I want to die while you love meby Georgia Douglas Johnson, 1880 ~ 1966“Who would care to live til love has nothing more to ask, and nothing more to give.”
Ideas of right and wrongby Rumi, 1207 ~ 1273“Let the beauty we love be what we do”
Invitation to loveby Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872 ~ 1906“Come, O Love, whenever you may, and you are welcome, welcome”
Nowby Robert Browning, 1812 ~ 1889“When ecstasies uptmost we clutch at the core”
Oh, the places you will go!by Dr. Seuss, 1904 ~ 1991“Things can happen and frequently do, to people as brainy and footsy as you”
Song of the Open Roadby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“I give you myself before preaching or law”
Song of Wandering Aengusby W.B. Yeats, 1865 ~ 1939“We will pluck til times and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun”
Sonnet 116by William Shakespeare, 1564 ~ 1616“If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved”- The Beauty we loveby Rumi, 1207 ~ 1273“The moment I heard my first love story I went looking for you”
The kissby Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 ~ 1941“Love is writing a song in a delicate script, kiss-calligraphy on lips”
The Trueloveby David Whyte, b. 1955“You’ve simply had enough of drowning and you want to live and you want to love and you will walk across any territory and any darkness however fluid and however dangerous to take the one hand you know belongs in yours.”
We are youngby J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892 ~ 1973“We have become as one, deep rooted in the soil of Life and tangled in the sweet growth”