love
noun
a strong feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, such as for a parent, child, friend, or pet.
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And the chaplets of old are above us, And the oyster-bed teems out of reach; Old poets outsing and outlove us, And Catullus makes mouths at our speech.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne