My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of cloth. I give her my troth, for our love is whole I sing her beauty in my soul
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Related My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the... ROMAN PAYNE She wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the law... ROMAN PAYNE I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of ... PABLO NERUDA Tonight I Can Write Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for e... PABLO NERUDA I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of d... DOROTHEA MACKELLAR Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example,'The night is shattered an... PABLO NERUDA somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know... NTOZAKE SHANGE I brush her hair out of her eyes and run my finger along the edge of her face. "I love you, Lake." COLLEEN HOOVER It’s not her shape, her face, or her hair that makes her beautiful. Neither is it t... 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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Abby touched her palm to my cheek. "You know what, Mr. Maddox?" "What, baby?" Her expressi... JAMIE MCGUIRE Ethan: I love you, I whispered in her ear. She held my face in her hands and leaned back so she... KAMI GARCIA I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted.... HOLLY BLACK My mother is my doctor Caring for me when am ill I will love her forever till We are ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Laia is curled in a ball on the other, one hand on her armlet, fast asleep. "You are my temple... SABAA TAHIR I assume you have a reason for manhandling my mate?” Cool words but his amusement was apparent. NALINI SINGH My fingers draw up her back and tangle into her hair. “They’ll never separate us.” �... KATIE MCGARRY She came towards me with a juicy gash between her legs that smelled like my best friend's sister" DAVE MATTHES For the Wife Beater's Wife With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue Circling to ... 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I want nothing between us. I wa... TAHEREH MAFI I said, I want to tell you something. She said, you can tell me tomorrow. I had never told... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I don't love her anymore So Why should I walk Nights By the tavern Where I ... ORHAN VELI KANıK The love song I wrote that day... I got embarrassed and never sang it for her. Oh yeah...... INIO ASANO You want to know my sweet?" I ask her. She nods. I kiss her on the forehead. "... COLLEEN HOOVER When did you star here?” I ask her. “Three days ago. Sir. Aspirant. Um—” She wrin... SABAA TAHIR The amount of her madness depends on the amount of her love. If she is crazy, frantic, ins... MELODY LEE “Here’s my number. I almost forgot to give it to you.” I swallow as I stare at t... KATIE MCGARRY My mother is my pastor She teaches me the Bible I love her as my mentor She tells me... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with ... VIRGIL Storms, those whirlwinds and symphonies in the sky, nourish her midnight soul an... MELODY LEE A bird who hurt her wing, now forgotten how to fly. A song she used to sing, bu... LANG LEAV My beloved is the sun And I am the earth that thrives only in her warmth. My beloved is the rai... C.L. WILSON I caught a red bird once, I fell in love with her, Took the red bird home with me, I... QUETZAL Forget about that and kiss me," I say. I weave my hands in her hair. She wraps her arms around ... SIMONE ELKELES In two easy strides, I reach her, weave my arms around her waist and lift her feet off the ground. M... KATIE MCGARRY Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . . And it is as t... AL-MUTANABBī Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her ... VICTOR HUGO My wife is a lovely leathery green, the blue-tongued lizard said; Her eyes are as red as bulldo... DOUGLAS STEWART My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
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It's ridiculous. He's n... ROMAN REIGNS When I had my tryout, just from two days being in the ring, learning to bump, hit the ropes, and thi... ROMAN REIGNS It's always been my expectation to be the top guy, the face of the company, the one with all of ... ROMAN REIGNS After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first... ROMAN ROMANENKO You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and... ROMAN POLANSKI A lot of people tune in to 'Monday Night Raw,' and they can hear these boos or these mixed r... ROMAN REIGNS If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit... ROMAN POLANSKI Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that... ROMAN POLANSKI Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ROMAN GARY I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of alge... NANCY ROMAN At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic featur... ROMAN JAKOBSON When I started to make more or less serious money - for those times - then, of course, I wanted to s... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, ... ROMAN COPPOLA As far as match-ups are concerned, I feel pretty good about matching up with anybody. I'm sort o... ROMAN REIGNS Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ROMAN POLANSKI I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories... ROMAN COPPOLA Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the t... ROMAN JAKOBSON It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbin... ROMAN JAKOBSON To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: on... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,... JOSHUA ROMAN Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a ... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH Our strategy for expansion of the Borders brand outside the US is one that we view as essential to o... ANNE ROMAN Borders absolutely supports the customers' right to choose what to read and what to buy, and Free In... ANNE ROMAN When you have good people, you want to do what you can to retain them. If part of that is helping th... ANNE ROMAN Every effort is made to offer positions to current staff. ANNE ROMAN We do often attract former teachers and other professionals who spend their lives around books and e... ANNE ROMAN If it's a good tourism season, there'll be some hiring done at our stores. Tourism drives (hiring) t... ANNE ROMAN You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would ... ROMAN REIGNS Most of my hobbies involve athletics and outdoor activities. I'm willing to learn about anything... ROMAN REIGNS Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to b... NANCY ROMAN In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism bec... ROMAN JAKOBSON The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director mysel... ROMAN COPPOLA I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks dese... ROMAN COPPOLA Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as comi... ROMAN JAKOBSON I used to be a lot better looking before I joined WWE. Whatever happens in the ring is real, and for... ROMAN REIGNS Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a pa... ROMAN COPPOLA I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking abo... ROMAN COPPOLA Personally, for my character, I started as the silent but deadly type. ROMAN REIGNS After the situation with Kursk submarine, I started looking at Mr. Berezovsky in a completely differ... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH