Here we'll have a growing list of anything written we wanted
to share with you.
A poem displayed at our wedding as a gift to my Mandi Marie
The Rose in the Deeps of
His Heart
All things uncomely and broken,
all things worn-out and old,
The cry of a child by the roadway,
the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman,
splashing the wintry mould,
Are wronging your image that blossoms
a rose in the deeps of my heart.
The wrong of unshapely things
is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew
and sit on a green knoll apart,
With the earth and the sky and the water,
remade, like a casket of gold
For my dreams of your image that blossoms
a rose in the deeps of my heart.
W.B. Yeats
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Though her parting dims the day,
Stealing grace from all alive;
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods survive.
from Give All to Love
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
i carry your heart with me
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
e.e. cummings
Elder Hugh B. Brown
(Improvement Era, Dec. 1969)
No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future. Guard that future and remember that when the Judge shall summon you, he will not look you over for medals, for diplomas, for honors, but for scars, and that there be no stains between the scars.
