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Dear love, for nothing less than theeWould I have broke this happy dream;It was a themeFor reason, much too strong for fantasy,Therefore thou wak'd'st...more

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Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat. If they be tw...more

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That our affections kill us not, nor dye.

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At the round earth's imagined corners blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberless infinitiesOf souls, and to your scattered ...more

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I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying so.

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Love's mysteries in souls do grow,But yet the body is his book.

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Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting da...more

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And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

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Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;She gives the best light to his sphere;Or each is both, and all, and soThey unto one another nothing owe;And ...more

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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares, And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, Where can we finde two better hemispheares Without sharpe ...more

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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this i...more

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If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

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A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said,Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied.But now she's l...more