Some of the following are Poems ...
Others are Titles of Short Stories ...

Most are Classics, one way or Another ...
If unfamiliar to you, I highly recommend ...

I read them ALL - about 50 Years Ago ...
When I was a mere 'Whipper-Snapper' !

Pretty ? Pleasant ? Positive ?


© - Tom Hyland - 8/7/11


‘How Beautiful With Shoes’
By Wilbur Daniel Steel.

‘To His Coy Mistress’
By Andrew Marvell.

‘For Esme - with Love and Squalor’
By J. D. Salinger.

‘To the Virgins, to make much of Time’
by Robert Herrick. 1591–1674
( Gather ye rosebuds while ye may ... )


My All-Time Favorite:

‘A White Rose’
By John Boyle O’Rilley (1844-1890 / Ireland)

The red rose whispers of passion, 

And the white rose breathes of love; 

O, the red rose is a falcon, 

And the white rose is a dove.



But I send you a cream-white rosebud 

With a flush on its petal tips; 

For the love that is purest and sweetest 

Has a kiss of desire on the lips.


Another Classic:


‘A Red, Red Rose’
By Robert Burns (1759-1796 / Ayrshire / Scotland)


Oh my luve is like a red, red rose, 


That's newly sprung in June: 


Oh my luve is like the melodie, 


That's sweetly play'd in tune. 




As fair art thou, my bonie lass, 


So deep in luve am I; 


And I will luve thee still, my dear, 


Till a' the seas gang dry. 




Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, 


And the rocks melt wi' the sun; 


And I will luve thee still, my dear, 


While the sands o' life shall run.




And fare thee weel, my only luve! 


And fare thee weel a while! 


And I will come again, my luve, 


Tho' it were ten thousand mile!

The Absolute BEST Humorous Love:



Love - Anonymous

There's the wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
And the love of a staunch true man,
And the love of a baby that's unafraid-
All have existed since time began.

But the most wonderful love, the Love of all loves,
Even greater than the love for Mother,
Is the infinite, tenderest, passionate love
Of one dead drunk for another.



Pretty? Pleasant? Positive?


© - TKH.