The Complete English Poems Quotes

• The Complete English Poems by Jarod Kintz
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• “I am two fools, I know,
  For loving, and for saying so.”

  — The Complete English Poems

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

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• “Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”

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• “The Good-Morrow
  
  I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
  Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then?
  But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly?
  Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?
  T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee.
  If ever any beauty I did see,
  Which I desir'd, and got, 'twas but a dreame of thee.
  
  And now good morrow to our waking soules,
  Which watch not one another out of feare;
  For love, all love of other sights controules,
  And makes one little roome, an every where.
  Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
  Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne,
  Let us possesse one world; each hath one, and is one.
  
  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 North, without declining West?
  What ever dyes, was not mixed equally;
  If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
  Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.”

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

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

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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 North, without declining West?
  What ever dyes, was not mixt equally;
  If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
  Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.”

  — The Complete English Poems

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• “Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;
  Thyself from thine affection
  Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye
  All lesser birds will take their jollity.
  Up, up, fair bride, and call
  Thy stars from out their several boxes, take
  Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make
  Thyself a constellation of them all;
  And by their blazing signify
  That a great princess falls, but doth not die.
  Be thou a new star, that to us portends
  Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.”

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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 so
  They unto one another nothing owe;
  And yet they do, but are
  So just and rich in that coin which they pay,
  That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay;
  Neither desires to be spared nor to spare.
  They quickly pay their debt, and then
  Take no acquittances, but pay again;
  They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall
  No such occasion to be liberal.
  More truth, more courage in these two do shine,
  Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.”

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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 laid; what though she be?
  Yet there are more delays, for where is he?
  He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere;
  First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere.
  Let not this day, then, but this night be thine;
  Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.”

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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 is the second of our reign.”

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• “The day breaks not: it is my heart.”

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• “How blest am I in this discovering thee!
  To enter in these bonds is to be free;
  Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be.
  Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,
  As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be”

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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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• “This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts
  Make of so noble individual parts
  One fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.”

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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 day.”

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• “Love is a growing, or full constant light,
  And his first minute, after noon, is night.”

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• “I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost
  Who died before the god of Love was born.”

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• “Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call,
  for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.”

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• “Annunciation
  
  Salvation to all that will is nigh;
  That All, which always is all everywhere,
  Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear,
  Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die,
  Lo, faithful virgin, yields Himself to lie
  In prison, in thy womb; and though He there
  Can take no sin, nor thou give, yet He will wear,
  Taken from thence, flesh, which death's force may try.
  Ere by the spheres time was created, thou
  Wast in His mind, who is thy Son and Brother;
  Whom thou conceivst, conceived; yea thou art now
  Thy Maker's maker, and thy Father's mother;
  Thou hast light in dark, and shuts in little room,
  Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb.”

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• “I
  Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,
  Which was my sin, though it were done before?
  Wilt thou forgive that sin, though which I run,
  And do run still: though still I do deplore?
  When thou hast done, thou hast not done,
  For, I have more.
  
  II
  Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won
  Others to sin? And, made my sin their door?
  Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun
  A year, or two: but wallowed in, a score?
  When thou hast done, thou hast not done,
  For I have more.
  
  III
  I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun
  My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;
  But swear by thy self, that at my death thy son
  Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;
  And, having done that, thou hast done,
  I fear no more.”

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• “Send me nor this, nor that, to increase my store,
  But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no more.”

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• “Twice or thrice had I loved thee,
  Before I knew thy face or name;
  So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame,
  Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be;
  Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
  Some lovely glorius nothing I did see,
  But since my soul, whose child love is,
  Takes limbs of flesh, and else could nothing do,
  More subtle than a parent is
  Love must not be, but take a body too,
  And therefore what thou wert, and who
  I bid love ask, and now
  That it assume thy body, I allow,
  And fix itself in thy lip, eye, and brow.”

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• “I sing the progress of a deathless soul,
  Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not control,
  Placed in most shapes; all times before the law
  Yoked us, and when, and since, in this I sing.
  And the great world to his aged evening,
  From infant morn, through manly noon I draw.”

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• “That this world’s general sickness doth not lie
  In any humour, or one certain part;
  But as thou sawest it rotten at the heart,
  Thou seest a hectic fever hath got hold
  Of the whole substance, not to be controlled,
  And that thou hast but one way, not to admit
  The world’s infection, to be none of it.”

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