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KEY POETRY QUOTATIONS, "And graven with Diamondes in letters plain /…
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"Lov's not Times foole, though rosie lips and cheeks / Within his bending sickles compasse come,"
"O no, it is an ever fixed marke / That lookes on tempests and is never shaken; / It is the star to every wandring barke,"
"Love alters not with his breefe houres and weekes, / But beares it out even to the edge of doome:"
"This flea is you and I, and this / Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is;"
"And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be;"
"Let not to that, self-murder added be, / And sacrilege, three sins in killing three."
"...when thou yield'st to me, / Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee."
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"Thus, though we cannot make our Sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run."
"My vegetable love should grow / Vaster then Empires, and more slow."
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"Am Age at least to every part, / And the last Age should show your Heart."
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"I must all other Beauties wrong, / And rob thee of a new embrace;"
"But I must search the black and fair / Like skilful mineralists that sound / For treasure in un-plowed-up ground."
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"Then ask me not, when I return?"
"Faithless to thee, False, unforgiv'n, / And lose my Everlasting rest."
"The Torments it deserves to try, / That tears my fixt Heart from my Love."
"And I saw it was filled with graves, / And tomb-stones where flowers should be,"
"A chapel was built in the midst, / Where I used to play on the green."
"And the gates of this chapel were shut, / And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;"
"And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, / And binding with briars my joys and desires."
"Thine be ilka joy and treasure,"
"Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, / Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. -"
"Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, / While the star of hope she leaves him:"
"But to see her, was to love her;"
"I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, / Naething could resist my Nancy:"
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"She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies;"
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"One shade the more, one ray the less,"
"Yet if you should forget me for a while / And afterwards remember, do not grieve:"
"Gone far away into the silent land; / When you can no more hold me by the hand,"
"For if the darkness and corruption leave / A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,"
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"-'You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks, / Tired of digging potatoes, and spudding up docks;"
"-'You used to call home-life a hag-ridden dream, ... but at present you seem / To know not of megrims or melancho-ly!' -"
"'My dear - a raw country girl, such as you be, / Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined.' said she."
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"The spheres above, / Made them our ministers,"
"O severing sea and land, / O laws of men,"
"Ere death, once let us stand / As we stood then!"
"The sedge has withered from the lake, / And no birds sing."
"The squirrel's granary is full, / And the harvest's done."
"Full beautiful - a faery's child,"
"She took me to her elfin grot, / And there she wept and sighed full sore,"
"I set her on my pacing steed,"
"...betwixt her lips and mine / There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed"
"I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion."
"Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet; / But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,"
"I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, / But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, / Then falls thy shadow, Cynara!"