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
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 1836How 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
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
Gina