Song of Solomon

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother"s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

I am my beloved"s, and his desire is toward me.

And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince"s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.