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To wander solitary there:Two paradises ‘twere in oneTo live in paradise alone.

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My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow.

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Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now l...more

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As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. Therefore the love w...more

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But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be f...more

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Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpiresAt every pore with instant fires, Now le...more

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Had we but world enough, and time

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The grave's a fine and private place,But none, I think, do there embrace.

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But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near

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Had we but world enough, and time...

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Thus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run.

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Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.