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[Quote No.52467] Need Area: Friends > Love
"[A poem: that demonstrates that sometimes love, although looking superficially 'deeply romantic', can be dangerously unhealthy for all concerned, causing them to act like they are addicted to their lover like an illegal drug and its withdrawal psychosis. The following poem shows this firstly by the woman's blindness to the highwayman's lack of ethics and weak moral strength which allows him to be a criminal and disregard the rights of others and frighten and steal from them. Then the poem shows the woman sacrificing her own life to save his because in her imagination she so identifies and empathizes with him that she thinks her self-sacrifice appropriate, even noble. Lastly the poem shows the highwayman's love and anguish driving him out of his mind and reason to the point he disregards his love's desire for him to live through her self-sacrifice and throws away his life anyway.]
'The Highwayman'
PART ONE
I
THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding -
Riding - riding -
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
II
He'd a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,
A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin;
They fitted with never a wrinkle: his boots were up to the thigh!
And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,
His pistol butts a-twinkle,
His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.
III
Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard,
And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred;
He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord's daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
IV
And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked
Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked;
His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay,
But he loved the landlord's daughter,
The landlord's red-lipped daughter,
Dumb as a dog he listened, and he heard the robber say -
V
'One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.'
VI
He rose upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach her hand,
But she loosened her hair i' the casement! His face burnt like a brand
As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast;
And he kissed its waves in the moonlight,
(Oh, sweet, black waves in the moonlight!)
Then he tugged at his rein in the moonliglt, and galloped away to the West.
PART TWO
I
He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon;
And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon,
When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor,
A red-coat troop came marching -
Marching - marching -
King George's men came matching, up to the old inn-door.
II
They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale instead,
But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed;
Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets at their side!
There was death at every window;
And hell at one dark window;
For Bess could see, through her casement, the road that he would ride.
III
They had tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest;
They had bound a musket beside her, with the barrel beneath her breast!
'Now, keep good watch!' and they kissed her.
She heard the dead man say -
Look for me by moonlight;
Watch for me by moonlight;
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way!
IV
She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good!
She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years,
Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
V
The tip of one finger touched it; she strove no more for the rest!
Up, she stood up to attention, with the barrel beneath her breast,
She would not risk their hearing; she would not strive again;
For the road lay bare in the moonlight;
Blank and bare in the moonlight;
And the blood of her veins in the moonlight throbbed to her love's refrain .
VI
Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hoofs ringing clear;
Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear?
Down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of the hill,
The highwayman came riding,
Riding, riding!
The red-coats looked to their priming! She stood up, straight and still!
VII
Tlot-tlot, in the frosty silence! Tlot-tlot, in the echoing night!
Nearer he came and nearer! Her face was like a light!
Her eyes grew wide for a moment; she drew one last deep breath,
Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him - with her death.
VIII
He turned; he spurred to the West; he did not know who stood
Bowed, with her head o'er the musket, drenched with her own red blood!
Not till the dawn he heard it, his face grew grey to hear
How Bess, the landlord's daughter,
The landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there.
IX
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky,
With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high!
Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
When they shot him down on the highway,
Down like a dog on the highway,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.
X
And still of a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding -
Riding - riding -
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
XI
Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard;
He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred;
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord's daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
" - Alfred Noyes
(PART ONE - IV an 'ostler' was a term for a man employed to look after the horses of people staying at an inn.)
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[Quote No.306] Need Area: Friends > Love
"The more we love, the better we are;" - Jeremy Taylor
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[Quote No.337] Need Area: Friends > Love
"[Song lyrics:]
When you're weary, feeling small.
When tears are in your eyes,
I'll dry them all.
I'm on your side when times get rough
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
" - Simon and Garfunkel
in song 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'
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[Quote No.513] Need Area: Friends > Love
"It is possible to see by the light of the heart, even at night." - American Native wisdom
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[Quote No.530] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. " - Og Mandino
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[Quote No.531] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy. " - Robert Heinlein
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[Quote No.581] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love and Charity
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
" - Bible
St Paul to the Corinthians 1, 4, 13
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[Quote No.638] Need Area: Friends > Love
"‘I am grateful to you, Chauncey,’ she said. “You are a man of restraint. You know that with one touch of your hand, just one touch, I would open to you. But you would not exploit another,’ she reflected…’Do you know that you’re very brainy, very cerebral, really, Chauncey, that you want to conquer the woman from within her very own self, that you want to infuse in her the need and the desire and the longing for your love?’ " - Jerzy Kosinski
in ‘Being There’
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[Quote No.763] Need Area: Friends > Love
"When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. " - Erich Fromm
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[Quote No.829] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
" - Martin Luther King, Jr
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[Quote No.1681] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden. It's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination to make it too, just like anything else.
" - Joyce Cary
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[Quote No.1974] Need Area: Friends > Love
"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
" - George Moore
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[Quote No.1978] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." - John Lennon
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[Quote No.1979] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo
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[Quote No.1980] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
" - David Herbert Lawrence
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[Quote No.2001] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Underneath an apple-tree sat a maiden and her lover; And the thoughts within her he yearned, in silence, to discover." - Will Carleton
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[Quote No.2106] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is the beauty of the soul.
" - Saint Augustine
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[Quote No.2115] Need Area: Friends > Love
"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
" - Saint Augustine
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[Quote No.2425] Need Area: Friends > Love
"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
" - Barbara De Angelis
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[Quote No.2428] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
" - Barbara De Angelis
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[Quote No.2477] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
" - Maggie Gallagher
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[Quote No.2528] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
" - Henry Ward Beecher
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[Quote No.2529] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
" - Kahlil Gibran
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[Quote No.2531] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence." - Vincent Van Gogh
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[Quote No.2533] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
" - Mohandas Gandhi
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[Quote No.2535] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Though lovers be lost love shall not." - Dylan Thomas
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[Quote No.2537] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
" - Thomas Moore
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[Quote No.2538] Need Area: Friends > Love
"The heart that has truly loved never forgets
" - Thomas Moore
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[Quote No.2542] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Robert Frost
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[Quote No.2551] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is love's reward." - John Dryden
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[Quote No.2560] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
" - Benjamin Franklin
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[Quote No.2600] Need Area: Friends > Love
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
" - Benjamin Franklin
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[Quote No.2657] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents, never revenges itself" - Mohandas Gandhi
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[Quote No.2770] Need Area: Friends > Love
"I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say; A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
" - Roy Orbison
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[Quote No.2852] Need Area: Friends > Love
"The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
" - Doug Horton
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[Quote No.2862] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
" - Leo Buscaglia
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[Quote No.2863] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
" - Leo Buscaglia
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[Quote No.3083] Need Area: Friends > Love
"When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
" - Harry Stack Sullivan
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[Quote No.3126] Need Area: Friends > Love
"When you meet someone and the chemistry is there, you don't know why, you don't know how, but it's there.
" - Gene Wilder
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[Quote No.4944] Need Area: Friends > Love
"'True love' isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially --even, or perhaps especially, when you don't feel like it. " - William R. Mattox, Jr.
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[Quote No.5082] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. " - Joan Crawford
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[Quote No.5148] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. " - D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
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[Quote No.5153] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey. " - Victor Hugo
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[Quote No.5154] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation. " - Victor Hugo
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[Quote No.5221] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. " - Ben Johnson
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[Quote No.5229] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine. " - Benjamin Johnson
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[Quote No.5260] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. " - W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
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[Quote No.5409] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. " - Miguel de Cervantes
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[Quote No.5517] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards. " - Terry Goodkind
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[Quote No.5519] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. " - Wayne Dyer
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