"The Look"

The Look by Sara Teasdale

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.

From: The Sweetest Woman There by John Clare

And there I saw a bonny maid That proved my heart's 
delight
All day she was a Goddess made An angel fair at night
We loved and in each other's power Felt nothing to 
condemn
I was the leaf and she the flower And both grew on one stem

What Goethe says,

"Any time not spent in love is wasted."
Torquato Tasso (1790) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Bert says,

Oh, I love pigeons more then anything else in this world... besides oatmeal. - Bert from Sesame Street

It's Such A Little Thing

It's such a little thing to weep,
So short a thing to sigh;
And yet by trades the size of these
We men and women die!

Love is..

"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun." - Matt Groening

  

Somewhere That's Green

Somewhere That's Green from Little Shop of Horrors

I know Seymour's the greatest
But I'm dating a semi-sadist
So I've got a black eye
And my arm's in a cast.
Still, that Seymour's a cutie
Well, if not, he's got inner beauty
And I dream of a place 
Where we could be together at last

A matchbox of our own
A fence of real chain link,
A grill out on the patio
Disposal in the sink
A washer and a dryer and an ironing machine
In a tract house that we share
Somewhere that's green.

He rakes and trims the grass
He loves to mow and weed
I cook like Betty Crocker 
And I look like Donna Reed
There's plastic on the furniture 
To keep it neat and clean
In the Pine-Sol scented air 
Somewhere that's green

Between our frozen dinner 
And our bedtime, nine-fifteen
We snuggle watchin' Lucy 
On our big, enormous twelve-inch screen
I'm his December Bride
He's Father, he Knows Best
Our kids watch Howdy Doody 
As the sun sets in the west
A picture out of Better Homes and Gardens magazine

Far from Skid Row
I dream we'll go
somewhere that's green.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouLiQ7KhmYU