quotes

• Who So List: "Fleeth afore/Fainting I follow"
• Who So List: "I seek to hold the wind"
• Who So List: "graven with diamonds ... 'for Caesar's I am'"
• Sonnet 116: "O no, it is an ever fixed mark"
• Sonnet 116: "It is the star to every wandering bark"
• Sonnet 116: "Love is not Time's fool"
• The Flea: "Cannot be said a sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead"
• The Flea: "Three lives in one flea ... yea more than married are"
• The Flea: "Our marriage bed ... we are met and cloistered"
• To His Coy Mistress: "Had we but world enough and time, this coyness Lady were no crime"
• To His Coy Mistress: "An hundred years should go to praise thine eyes ... two hundred to adore each breast"
• To His Coy Mistress: "Times winged chariot hurrying near"
• To His Coy Mistress: "Worms shall try that long preserved virginity and your quaint honour turns to dust"
• Absent From Thee: "The straying fool 'twill plainly kill"
• Absent From Thee: "When wearied with a world of woe, to thy safe bosom I retire"
• Absent From Thee: "Faithless to thee, false, unforgiven, and lose my everlasting rest"
• The Garden of Love: "And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door"
• The Garden of Love: "tombstones where flowers should be"
• The Garden of Love: "priests in black gowns were walking their rounds ... binding with briars my joys and desires"
• Ae Fond Kiss: "Ae fond kiss and then we sever"
• Ae Fond Kiss: "I'll never blame my partial fancy, nothing could resist my Nancy"
• Ae Fond Kiss: "Fare-thee-well, thou best and dearest!"
• The Ruined Maid: "And now you've gay bracelets and bright feathers thee"
• The Ruined Maid: "Some polish is gained with one's ruin"
• The Ruined Maid: "I wish I had feathers" ... "You ain't ruined"
• At An Inn: "Yet never the love-light shone between us there! But that which chilled our breath"
• At An Inn: "Why cast he on our port a bloom not ours?"
• At An Inn: "As we seemed we were not that day afar/And now we seem not what we aching are"