(n): a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
(n): an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
(n): an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
(n): the group of languages derived from Latin
(n): any dialect of the language of ancient Rome
(n): a story dealing with love
(n): a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
(n): a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
(n): an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
(v): make amorous advances towards
(v): perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
(v): have a love affair with
(v): be enamored or in love with
(v): talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
(v): exchange thoughts; talk with
(v): tell romantic or exaggerated lies
(v): tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive
(adj): relating to languages derived from Latin
Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her
by Christopher Brennan (1870-1932)
If questioning would make us wise
No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;
If all our tale were told in speech
No mouths would wander each to each.
Were spirits free from mortal mesh
And love not bound in hearts of flesh
No aching breasts would yearn to meet
And find their ecstasy complete.
For who is there that lives and knows
The secret powers by which he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
Then seek not, sweet, the "If" and "Why"
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.