Original Antique & Vintage Romantic Lovers Prints

Romantic Lovers Prints c.1880s-1940s

Happy Valentines Day~

Hello my blog friends, so long time no blogging...years I believe. I have much going on, working hard and online so much it is hard to blog as it is another online activity. I wanted to share my collection of vintage and antique lovers/couples prints from the late 1800s to early 1940s time frame. Some are vintage and antique illustration prints, they are all originals.I hope you enjoy them, I hope they make you think of love,romance and passion.

I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
   It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood

Early 1900s print by W. L. Taylor

".. For two alone, there in the hall,
    Is spread the table round and small;
    Upon the polished silver shine
    The evening lamps, but, more divine,
    The light of love shines over all;
     Of love, that says not mine and thine,
     But ours, for ours is thine and mine.

    They want no guests, to come between
    Their tender glances like a screen,
    And tell them tales of land and sea,
    And whatsoever may betide
    The great, forgotten world outside;
    They want no guests; they needs must be
    Each other's own best company. "
 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1875

                                                       

 Early 1900s print.

 

Late 1800s prints above

 I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.  ~John Keats

                                                            Late 1800s print 

                                                        

                                                          

                                                            

                                                             Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.  ~Napoleon Bonaparte, letter to wife Josephine, December 1795

 I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.  ~Thomas Moore

 
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.  ~Edward Thomas

 Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
~Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)"

 A man had given all other bliss,
And all his worldly worth for this,
To waste his whole heart in one kiss
Upon her perfect lips.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 I can no longer think of anything but you.  In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you.  I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.  ~Honore de Balzac, letter to Evelina Hanska, June 1836

 

How did it happen that their lips came together?  How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill?  A kiss, and all was said.  ~Victor Hugo

 I can no longer think of anything but you.  In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you.  I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.  ~Honore de Balzac, letter to Evelina Hanska, June 1836

 How my memory treasures every sweet stray moment of our past — handclasp, kiss and heart-beat, the passion of those dear unfathomable eyes, the rustle of garments, the gliding steps and lingering farewells! ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

 Once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul thro'
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

 You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.  ~Dr. Seuss

                                                             I love your hills and I love your dales,
And I love your flocks a-bleating;
but oh, on the heather to lie together,
With both our hearts a-beating!
~John Keats

 

 Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.  ~Catherine of Aragon, 1535

                         My favorite is the print above above, look how tenderly he is holding  her. I hope everyone has a good Valentine's Day~

                                                     Gina