Love Equals Swift and Slow

Lovis Corinth

Self Portrait with His Wife and a Glass of Champagne

Love Equals Swift and Slow

Love equals swift and slow,
And high and low,
Racer and lame,
The hunter and his game.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

To a Lady, Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her

Lovis Corinth

Innocentia

Moses Soyer

Cynthia with Hands on Breasts

To a Lady,
Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her

It is not, Celia, in our power

To say how long our love will last;

It may be we within this hour

May lose those joys we now do taste:

The blessed, that immortal be,

From change in love are only free.

Then, since we mortal lovers are,
Ask not how long our love will last,
But while it does, let us take care
Each minute be with pleasure past
Were it not madness to deny
To live, because w’are sure to die?

~ Sir George Etherege ~