<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448964" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Platonic Lady</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could love thee till I die,<br>Would'st thou love me modestly,<br>And ne'er press, whilst I live,<br>For more than willingly I would give:<br>Which should sufficient be to prove<br>I'd understand the art of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hate the thing is called enjoyment:<br>Besides it is a dull employment,<br>It cuts off all that's life and fire<br>From that which may be termed desire;<br>Just like the bee whose sting is gone<br>Converts the owner to a drone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love a youth will give me leave<br>His body in my arms to wreathe;<br>To press him gently, and to kiss;<br>To sigh, and look with eyes that wish<br>For what, if I could once obtain,<br>I would neglect with flat disdain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd give him liberty to toy<br>And play with me, and count it joy.<br>Our freedom should be full complete,<br>And nothing wanting but the feat.<br>Let's practice, then, and we shall prove<br>These are the only sweets of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lord+John+Wilmot">Lord John Wilmot</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448964" data-title="The Platonic Lady de Lord John Wilmot" data-description="I could love thee till I die, Would'st thou love me modestly, And ne'er press, whilst I live, For more than willingly I would give: Which should sufficient be to prove I'd understand the art of love. I hate the thing is called enjoyment: Besides ..."></div> </div> </div>

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