Literary Treasure

Love Without Love

Luis Llorens Torres

I love you, because in my thousand and one nights of dreams,
I never once dreamed of you.
I looked down paths that traveled from afar,
but it was never you I expected.
Suddenly I've felt you flying through my soul
in quick, lofty flight,
and how beautiful you seem way up there, far
from my always idiot heart!
Love me that way, flying over everything.
And, like the bird on its branch, land in my arms
only to rest,
then fly off again.
Be not like the romantic ones who,
in love, set me on fire.
When you climb up my mansion,
enter so lightly, that as you enter
the dog of my heart will not bark.

I first read his poem a couple a months ago. I opened the book and that was on the Page when i first read it. It is such a beautiful Love poem. I really like it. When I kept reading it over and over again I couldn't believe I hadn't read such a poem before that one. I was really shocked about it. When the teacher told us we had to get in groups I was like OK. But when I found out it was about poems we had to write about I wanted to write about Love with out Love or Tonight I can write a verse....
I was really excited but they had already chosen the two poems I wanted to write about. I ended up writing about Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. It was such a beautiful poem about love. It described the love a man had for woman. It compared her to a beautiful summer day because she was that beautiful. I really love it became one of my favorite ones I really love poems because they're beautiful but the three I like from the text book are really amazing to me. Since I really like Sonnet 18 I'm going to write it down as well.

Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare

Shall i compare thee too a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair tho owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe, or eye can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Hopefully with this you can see why it is I really like this poems. Hopefully you can enjoy theme too like I did.