Not thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule,... But thou would'st have that love thy selfe: As thou Art jealous, Lord, so I am jealous now, Thou lov'st not, till from loving more, thou free My soule: Who ever gives, takes libertie: O, if thou car'st not whom I love Alas, thou lov'st not mee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sweare by thy selfe, that at my death thy Sonne Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;... And having done that, thou hast done, I feare no more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love must not be, but take a body too, And therefore what thou wert, and who,... I bid Love aske, and now That it assume thy body, I allow, And fixe it selfe in thy lip, eye, and brow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out;... The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to look for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Study me then, you who shall lovers be At the next world, that is, at the next spring:... For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness: He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise... From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dull sublunary lovers' love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit... Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined That our selves know not what it is, Interassured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »