Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
John DonneSleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
John DonneKeep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John DonneA 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.
John Donne