Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNE
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Friends are ourselves.
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