Songs:5-8

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* I am come into my garden , my sister , my spouse : I have gathered my myrrh with my spice ; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey ; I have drunk my wine with my milk : eat , O friends ; drink , yea , drink abundantly , O beloved . * I sleep , but my heart waketh : it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh , saying , Open to me , my sister , my love ra #yah #, my dove , my undefiled : for my head is filled with dew , and my locks with the drops of the night . * I have put off my coat ; how shall I put it on ? I have washed my feet ; how shall I defile them ? * My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door , and my bowels were moved for him . * I rose up to open to my beloved ; and my hands dropped with myrrh , and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh , upon the handles of the lock man #uwl #. * I opened to my beloved ; but my beloved had withdrawn himself , and was gone : my soul failed when he spake : I sought him , but I could not find him ; I called him , but he gave me no answer . * The watchmen that went about the city found me , they smote me , they wounded me ; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me . * I charge you , O daughters of Jerusalem , if ye find my beloved , that ye tell him , that I am sick of love . * What is thy beloved more than another beloved , O thou fairest among women ? what is thy beloved more than another beloved , that thou dost so charge us ? * My beloved is white and ruddy , the chiefest among ten thousand . * His head is as the most fine gold , his locks are bushy , and black as a raven . * His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters , washed with milk , and fitly set mille #th #. * His cheeks are as a bed of spices , as sweet flowers : his lips like lilies , dropping sweet smelling myrrh . * His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl : his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires . * His legs are as pillars of marble , set upon sockets of fine gold : his countenance is as Lebanon , excellent as the cedars . * His mouth is most sweet : yea , he is altogether lovely . This is my beloved , and this is my friend , O daughters of Jerusalem . * Whither is thy beloved gone , O thou fairest among women ? whither is thy beloved turned aside ? that we may seek him with thee . * My beloved is gone down into his garden , to the beds of spices , to feed in the gardens , and to gather lilies . * I am my beloveds , and my beloved is mine : he feedeth among the lilies . * Thou art beautiful , O my love ra #yah #, as Tirzah , comely as Jerusalem , terrible as an army with banners . * Turn away thine eyes from me , for they have overcome me : thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead Gil #ad #. * Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing , whereof every one beareth twins , and there is not one barren among them . * As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks . * There are threescore queens , and fourscore concubines , and virgins without number . * My dove , my undefiled is but one ; she is the only one of her mother , she is the choice one of her that bare her . The daughters saw her , and blessed her ; yea , the queens and the concubines , and they praised her . * Who is she that looketh forth as the morning , fair as the moon , clear as the sun , and terrible as an army with banners ? * 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 . * Or ever I was aware , my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib #Ammiy . * 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 . * How beautiful are thy feet with shoes na #al #, O princes daughter ! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels , the work of the hands of a cunning workman . * Thy navel is like a round goblet , which wanteth not liquor : thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies . * Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins ta #owm #. * Thy neck is as a tower of ivory ; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon , by the gate of Bathrabbim Bath : thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus . * Thine head upon thee is like Carmel , and the hair of thine head like purple ; the king is held in the galleries . * How fair and how pleasant art thou , O love , for delights ta #anuwg #! * This thy stature is like to a palm tree , and thy breasts to clusters of grapes . * 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 ; * 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 am my beloveds , and his desire is toward me . * Come , my beloved , let us go forth into the field ; let us lodge in the villages . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * I would lead thee , and bring thee into my mothers house , who would instruct me : I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate . * His left hand should be under my head ro #sh #, and his right hand should embrace me . * I charge you , O daughters of Jerusalem , that ye stir not up , nor awake my love , until he please . * 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 . * 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 sh @#owl #: the coals thereof are coals of fire , which hath a most vehement flame . * 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 . * 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 ? * 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 . * I am a wall , and my breasts like towers : then was I in his eyes as one that found favour . * Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon Ba #al ; he let out the vineyard unto keepers ; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver . * My vineyard , which is mine , is before me : thou , O Solomon , must have a thousand , and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred me #ah #. * Thou that dwellest in the gardens , the companions hearken to thy voice : cause me to hear it . * Make haste , my beloved , and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices .

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