She walks in Beauty
~ Lord Byron ~ She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect…
Readings
somewhere i have never travelled
By e.e. cummings somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things…
Sonnet 116
~ 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…
Sonnet 18
~ By William Shakespeare ~ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate… When in eternal lines to time thou…
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…
Sonnet light
SUDDEN LIGHT ~ By Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~ I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell; I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen…
Sonnet lxix
~ By Pablo Neruda Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking…
Sound of Silence
~ By Raymond J. Baughan ~ Here in the space between us and the world lies human meaning. Into the vast uncertainty we call. The echoes make our…
Speak to us of Love
From The Prophet ~ By Kahlil Gilbran ~ Then said Almitra, Speak to us of Love. And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a…
The art of marriage
~ Author Wilferd A. Peterson ~The little things are the big things. It is never being too old to hold hands. It is remembering to say “I love you” at…
The Bridge Across Forever
Excerpt from The Bridge Across Forever ~ Richard Bach ~ A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we…
The country of marriage
EXCERPT FROM “ THE COUNTRY OF MARRIAGE “ ~ By Wendell Berry ~ “…our life reminds me of a forest in which there is a graceful clearing and in that…
The Jerusalem Bible, Song of Songs
2:8-10, 14, 16a; 8:6-7a For love is as strong as death. I hear my Beloved. See how he comes leaping on the mountains, bounding over the hills. My…
The most wonderful of all things in life
~ By Sir Hugh Walpole ~ The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing…
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…
The Prayer
~ By St. Francis of Assisi ~ Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where…
The Seven Blessings
From “The New Jewish Wedding” ~ By Anita Diamant ~ 展e acknowledge the Unity of all within the sovereignty of God, expressing our appreciation for…
The Symposium
~ By Plato Our original nature was by no means the same as it is now. There was a kind composed of both sexes and sharing equally in male and female.…
To althea, from prison (Last Stanza)
By Richard Lovelace Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in…
Touched by an angel
By Maya Angelou We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes…
Traditional Irish Blessing
Traditional Irish Prayer 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…
Treat yourselves and each other with respect…
UNTITLED ~ Author Unknown ~ Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together. Give the highest…
True love
~ By Author Unknown ~ True love is a sacred flame That burns eternally, And none can dim its special glow Or change its destiny. True love speaks in…
Untitled
~ modification from Walt Whitman’s Song of the Open Road~ I do not offer the old smooth prizes, But offer rough new prizes, These are the days that…