Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and from thine eyeAll lesser birds will take their jollity.Up, up, fair bride, and callThy stars from o...
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a Sea, where mi...
Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,All just supply, and all relation;Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,For every man alone thinks he hath gotTo be a phoenix, and that then can beNone...
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
I joy, that in these straits I see my west;
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.
I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.
If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are tw...
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.