Profane Love

Famous quotes containing the words profane love, profane and/or love:

    “Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:
    Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot
    A constant habit; that when I would not
    I change in vows, and in devotion.
    As humorous is my contrition
    As my profane Love, and as soon forgot:
    As ridlingly distempered, cold and hot,”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:
    Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot
    A constant habit; that when I would not
    I change in vows, and in devotion.
    As humorous is my contrition
    As my profane Love, and as soon forgot:
    As ridlingly distempered, cold and hot,”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “From alle wymmen mi love is lent
    And lyht on Alysoun.”
    —Unknown. Alison. . .

    Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939)