Still Life: Flowers and Fruit (detail). Severin Roesen, German, active in America 1848-72.
Oil on canvas, between 1850 and 1855.

ART & LOVE
An Illustrated Anthology of Love Poetry
Selected and Introduced by KATE FARRELL
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
and Bulfinch Press
New York : Boston

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Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment, and Their Son Peter Paul. Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640.
Oil on wood, ca. 1639

MY-NESS

"My parents, my husband, my brother, my sister."
I am listening in a cafeteria at breakfast.
The women's voices rustle, fulfill themselves
In a ritual no doubt necessary.
I glance sidelong at their moving lips
And I delight in being here on earth
For one more moment, with them, here on earth,
To celebrate our tiny, tiny my-ness.

CZESLAW MILOSZ, Polish, b. 1911

For the Little One. William Merritt Chase, American, 1849-1916.
Oil on canvas, ca.1895.

Oath of Friendship


In the Meadow. Pierre Auguste Renoir, French, 1841-1919.
Oil on canvas.

OATH OF FRIENDSHIP

Shang ya!
I want to be your friend
For ever and ever without break or decay.
When the hills are all flat
And the rivers are all dry,
When it lightens and thunders in winter,
When it rains and snows in summer,
When Heaven and Earth mingle -
Not till then will I part from you.

ANONYMOUS, China, 1st century B.C.

NONE OF US ARE AS YOUNG

None of us are as young
as we were. So what?
Friendship never ages.

W.H. AUDEN, American (b. England) 1907-1973

The Love Letter. Jean Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732-1806.
Oil on canvas.

LOVE SONG

I lie here thinking of you:-

the stain of love
is upon the world!
Yellow, yellow, yellow
it eats into the leaves,
smears with saffron
the horned branches that lean heavily
against a smooth purple sky!
There is no light
only a honey-thick stain
that drips from leaf to leaf
and limb to limb
spoiling the colors
of the whole world -

you far off there under
the wine-red selvage of the west!

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, American, 1883-1963

LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY

The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the Ocean,
The winds of Heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle,
Why not I with thine?-

See the mountains kiss high Heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?

PERCY BYSSE SHELLY, English, 1792-1822

The Storm. Pierre Auguste Cot, French, 1837-1883.
Oil on canvas, 1880.

The Proposal. Adolphe William Bouguereau, French, 1825-1905
Oil on canvas, 1872.

Pygmalion and Galatea. Jean-Léon Gérôme, French, 1824-1904.
Oil on canvas, ca.1890.

Terrace at Sainte-Adresse. Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926.
Oil on canvas.

VARIATION

That still pool of the air
under the branch of an echo.

That still pool of the water
under a frond of bright stars.

That still pool of your mouth
under a thicket of kisses.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, Spanish, 1899-1936

I WANT TO BREATHE

you in I'm not talking about
perfume or even the sweet o-

dour of your skin but of the
air itself I want to share

your air inhaling what you
exhale I'd like to be that

close two of us breathing
each other as one as that.

JAMES LAUGHLIN, American, b. 1914.

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