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 let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life: Thus, while we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

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

Music, the mosaic of the air.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.