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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Poems (1633)
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
Poems (1633)
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
Poems (1633)
Though Truth and Falsehood be
Near twins, yet Truth a little elder is.
Poems (1633)
What if this present were the world's last night?
Poems (1633)
Just such disparity
As is ’twixt air and angels’ purity,
’Twixt women’s love, and men’s will ever be.
Poems (1633)
He which hath business, and makes love, doth do
Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.
Poems (1633)
Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
Poems (1633)
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere.
Poems (1633)
'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.
Poems (1633)
How deep do we dig, and for how coarse gold?
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Age is a sickness, and Youth is an ambush.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
For having purposed change and falsehood, you
Can have no way but falsehood to be true!
Vain lunatic, against these 'scapes I could
Dispute, and conquer, if I would.
Poems (1633)
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Poems (1633)
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; 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.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Poems (1633)
Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Virtue has some perverseness, for she will
Neither believe her good, nor others' ill.
For good or evil must in our actions meet;
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.