“No Spring, nor Summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one Autumnal face.”
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“No Spring, nor Summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one Autumnal face.”
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“Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendered.”
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“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
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“I am two fools, I know, for loving, and saying so.”
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“Love, all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.”
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“If yet I have not all thy love, love Dear, I shall never have it all.”
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“Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.”
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“All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one anothe...”
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“I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.”
“Death Be Not Proud Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet...”
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“Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.”
“And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.”
“The Good-Morrow I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers de...”
“My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares, And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, Where can we finde two better hemispheares Without sharpe North, without declining West? What ever...”
“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...”
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“True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.”
“Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.”
“This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts Make of so noble individual parts One fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.”
“If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”
“How blest am I in this discovering thee! To enter in these bonds is to be free; Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be. Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodi...”