Coventry Patmore Quotes about Love

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

Coventry Patmore

Love, Sweet, Book

1854 TheAngel in the House, bk.1,The Betrothal, canto 8, prelude 2,'The Revelation'.

All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

Coventry Patmore

Love, Sunshine, Men

Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu.com