• Drink to me, only, with thine eyes,
    And I will pledge with mine;
    Or leave a kisse but in the cup,
    And Ile not look for wine.
    The thirst, that from the soule doth rise,
    Doth aske a drink divine:
    But might I of Jove's Nectar sup,
    I would not change for thine.
    I sent thee, late, a rosie wreath,
    Not so much honoring thee,
    As giving it a hope, that...

  • Still to be neat, still to be drest,
    As you were going to a feast;
    Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd:
    Lady, it is to be presum'd,
    Though art's hid causes are not found,
    All is not sweet, all is not sound.

    Give me a look, give me a face,
    That make simplicity a grace;
    Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
    Such sweet neglect more taketh me
    ...

  • Consider this small dust, here in the glass,
    By atoms moved:
    Could you believe that this the body was
    Of one that loved;
    And in his mistress' flame playing like a fly,
    Was turned to cinders by her eye:
    Yes ; and in death, as life unblest,
    To have't exprest,
    Even ashes of lovers find no rest.

  • Had we but world enough, and time,
    This coyness, lady, were no crime.
    We would sit down and think which way
    To walk, and pass our long love's day;
    Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
    Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
    Of Humber would complain. I would
    Love you ten years before the Flood;
    And you should, if you please, refuse
    Till the conversion of the...

  • I Loved a lass, a fair one,
    As fair as e'er was seen;
    She was indeed a rare one,
    Another Sheba Queen:
    But, fool as then I was,
    I thought she loved me too:
    But now, alas! she's left me,
    Falero, lero, loo!

    Her hair like gold did glister,
    Each eye was like a star,
    She did surpass her sister,
    Which pass'd all others far;
    She...

  • Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
    Why dost thou thus,
    Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?
    Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
    Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
    Late school-boys and sour prentices,
    Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
    Call country ants to harvest offices;
    Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
    Nor...

  • Where, like a pillow on a bed,
    A pregnant bank swell'd up, to rest
    The violet's reclining head,
    Sat we two, one another's best.

    Our hands were firmly cemented
    By a fast balm, which thence did spring;
    Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread
    Our eyes upon one double string.

    So to engraft our hands, as yet
    Was all the means to make us one...

  • Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you
    As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
    That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
    Your force, to break, blow, burn and make me new.
    I, like an usurpt town, to another due,
    Labour to admit you, but Oh, to no end,
    Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
    But is captiv'd, and proves weak or...

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    There is a lady sweet and kind,
    Was never face so pleas'd my mind;
    I did but see her passing by,
    And yet I love her till I die.

    Her gesture, motion, and her smiles,
    Her wit, her voice, my heart beguiles,
    Beguiles my heart, I know not why,
    And yet I love her till I die.

    Her free behaviour, winning looks,
    Will make a lawyer burn his books...

  • E'en like two little bank-dividing brooks,
    That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams,
    And having ranged and search'd a thousand nooks,
    Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames,
    Where in a greater current they conjoin:
    So I my Best-beloved's am; so He is mine.

    E'en so we met; and after long pursuit,
    E'en so we joined; we...