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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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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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Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

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

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For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

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If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

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If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.

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Love all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.

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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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All kings and all their favourites All glory of honours beauties wits The sun itself which makes time as they pass Is elder by a year now than...more

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Go and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are,Or who cleft the devil's foot,Teach me to hear mermaids si...more

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

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This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong artsMake of so noble individual partsOne fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.