Nostalgia....

For the last couple of weeks I have been feeling so eerily nostalgic. Many things from the past have been pacing back and forth in my head . what's eerie is that I get nostalgic to times that I have never been contemporary with. then a poem for Elizabeth Barrett Browning came to my mind when I heard Bruno Mars's song 'the way you are" and how he expresses his love to the girl that made mostly every girl go awww! and lately all I could think of is this poem and the difference in the word's of a world that is way simpler yet way more deep and thorough than our high tech, fast paced society. I'll leave it for you to do the comparison here is the song that made the girls swoon:

and here is Mrs Browning's take on "the way you are" in the 1800s

Sonnet 14 - If thou must love me, let it be for nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
'I love her for her smile—her look—her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'—
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,—and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,—
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.

I am not attacking the song, it is sweet and the guy means well, but I believe the latter- for me- hits home and makes me nostalgic, eerily, to a place in my head leaving nothing but a content smile on my mouth and an approving nod.  if I may say!! :)