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Sweetest Love, I do not go
Sweetest Love, I do not go
Sweetest love, I do not go,
For weariness of thee,
Nor in hope the world can show
A fitter love for me;
But …
Song: Go and catch a falling star
Song: Go and catch a falling star
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft…
Satire IV
Satire IV
Well; I may now receive, and die. My sin
Indeed is great, but yet I have been in
A purgatory, such as fear'd hell is
A …
Self-Love
Self-Love
He that cannot choose but love,
And strives against it still,
Never shall my fancy move,
For he loves 'gainst his will;
Nor h…
Satire II
Satire II
Sir; though (I thanke God for it) I do hate
Perfectly all this towne, yet there's one state
In all ill things so excellently best,
That h…
Resurrection, imperfect
Resurrection, imperfect
Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast
As yet, the wound thou took’st on friday last;
Sleep then, and rest; …
Pyramus and Thisbe
Pyramus and Thisbe
Two, by themselves, each other, love and fear,
Slain, cruel friends, by parting have join'd here.
Ralphius
Ralphius
Compassion in the world again is bred ;
Ralphius is sick, the broker keeps his bed.
Oh my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned
Oh my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned
Oh my black Soule! Now thou art summoned
By sicknesse, deaths herald, and champion;
Thou art like a pilgrim, wh…
On The Progress Of The Soul...
On The Progress Of The Soul...
Forget this rotten world, and unto thee
Let thine own times as an old story be.
Be not concern'd; study not wh…
No Man Is An Island
No Man Is An Island
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by …
Negative Love
Negative Love
I never stoop'd so low, as they
Which on an eye, cheeke, lip, can prey,
Seldom to them, which soare no higher
Than vertue or the mind…
Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
Like Esop's fellow-slaves, O Mercury,
Which could do all things, thy faith is ; and I
Like Esop's self, which nothing. I confess…
Love's Exchange
Love's Exchange
LOVE, any devil else but you
Would for a given soul give something too.
At court your fellows every day
Give th' art of rhyming, hu…
Love's Deity
Love's Deity
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.
I cannot think that he, who then lov'd most,
Sun…
La Corona
La Corona
Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise,
Weaved in my lone devout melancholy,
Thou which of good hast, yea, art treasury,
All c…
Holy Sonnet XVIII: Show me, dear Christ, thy Spouse, so bright and clear
Holy Sonnet XVIII: Show me, dear Christ, thy Spouse, so bright and clear
Show me, dear Christ, thy Spouse, so bright and clear.
What! is it She, which on the o…
Hym To God, My God In My Sickness
Hym To God, My God In My Sickness
Since I am coming to that holy room,
Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore,
I shall be made thy music; as …
Holy Sonnet XVII: Since She Whom I Loved
Holy Sonnet XVII: Since She Whom I Loved
Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt
To Nature, and to hers, and my good is dead,
And her soul early i…
Holy Sonnet XVI: Father
Holy Sonnet XVI: Father
Father, part of his double interest
Unto thy kingdome, thy Sonne gives to mee,
His joynture in the knottie Trinitie
Hee kee…
Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God
Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God
Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest,
My Soule, this wholsome meditation,
How God the Spirit, by Angels waited …
Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One
Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:
Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot
A constant habit; that w…
Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart
Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and sta…
Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, to Vex Me
Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, to Vex Me
Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet in one:
Inconstancy unnaturally hath begott
A constant habit; that when I would not
I…