Writing Your Own Wedding Vows

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
-Henry Van Dyke

O, human love! thou spirit given On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!
-Edgar Allan Poe

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
-John Donne

My bounty is as boundless as the sea. My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
-William Shakespeare

Were you the earth, dear Love, and I the skies, My love should shine on you like to the sun, And look upon you with ten thousand eyes Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done.
-Joshua Sylvester

The violet loves a sunny bank, The cowslip loves the lea, The scarlet creeper loves the elm, But I love -- thee.
The sunshine kisses mount and vale, The stars they kiss the sea, The west winds kiss the clover bloom, But I kiss -- thee.
The oriole weds his mottled mate, The lilys bride o the bee; Heavens marriage ring is round the earth, -- Shall I wed thee?
-Bayard Taylor

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I did till we lov'd?
-John Donne

Two human loves make one divine.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Young bride -- a wreath for thee, Of sweet and gentle flowers; For wedded love was pure and free In Eden's happy bowers.
Young bride -- a song for thee, A song of joyous measure, For thy cup of hope shall be Filled with honeyed pleasure...
Young bride -- a prayer for thee, That all thy hopes possessing, Thy soul may praise her God and he May crown thee with His blessing.
-Martin Farquhar Tupper

One half of me is yours, the other half yours -- Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours!
-William Shakespeare

One heart's enough for me -- One heart to love, adore -- One heart's enough for me -- O, who could wish for more? The birds that soar above, And sing their songs on high, Ask but for one to love, And therefore should not I?
One pair of eyes to gaze, One pair of sparkling blue, In which sweet love betrays Her form of fairest hue; One pair of glowing cheeks, Fresh as the rose and fair, Whose crimson blush bespeaks The health that's native there.
One pair of hands to twine Love's flowers fair and gay, And form a wreath divine, Which never can decay; And this is all I ask, One gentle form and fair--Beneath whose smiles to bask And learn love's sweetness there.
-Auguste Mignon

How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be; Or ask the broad billows, That ceaselessly roar, How many bright sands Do they kiss on the shore?
-Mary Ashley Townsend

God hath made nothing single.
-Emily Dickinson

I'll love him more, more Than eer wife loved before, Be the days dark or bright.
-Jean Ingelow

Joy, gentle friends! Joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
-William Shakespeare

The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix forever, With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle; Why not I with thine?
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
-William Shakespeare

Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind.
-William Blake

...true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
-Sir Walter Raleigh

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
-William Shakespeare

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or craggy mountains yield.
-Christopher Marlowe

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

I know not if I know what true love is, But if I know, then, if I love not him, I know there is none other I can love.
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love...