John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester - Love Quotes

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Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms,
I filled with love, and she all over charms;
Both equally inspired with eager fire,
Melting through kindness, flaming in desire.
With arms, legs, lips close clinging to embrace.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Love…
That cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown
To make the nauseous draught of life go down.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Love a woman? You're an ass!
'Tis a most insipid passion
To choose out for your happiness
The silliest part of God's creation.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Love, the most generous passion of the mind
The softest refuge innocence can find

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

'Is there then no more?'
She cries. 'All this to love and rapture's due;
Must we not pay a debt to pleasure too?'

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

But oh, how slowly minutes roll
When absent from her eyes,
That feed my love, which is my soul:
It languishes and dies.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Thou treacherous, base deserter of my flame,
False to my passion, fatal to my fame,
Through what mistaken magic dost thou prove
So true to lewdness, so untrue to love?

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester