So,
if I dream I have you, I have you,
For, all our joys are but fantastical. John Donne The Dream
So,
so, break off this last lamenting kiss,
Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away;
Turn, thou ghost, that way, and let me turn this,
And let ourselves benight our happiest day.
We ask none leave to love; nor will we owe
Any so cheap a death as saying, Go. John Donne The Expiration
Sweetest
love, I do not go,
For weariness of thee,
Nor in hope the world can show
A fitter love for me;
But since that I
Must die at last, 'tis best,
To use myself in jest
Thus by feigned deaths to die. John Donne Song: Sweetest love, I do not go
Take
me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthral me, never shall be free,
Nor chaste, except you ravish me. John Donne Holy Sonnets XIV
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. John Donne Air and Angels
We
are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we
are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to
the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger
walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place
of execution, to death. John Donne
What
if this present were the world's last night? John Donne Holy Sonnets, XIII
Where,
like a pillow on a bed,
A pregnant bank swelled up, to rest
The violet's reclining head,
Sat we two, one another's best. John Donne The Ecstasy
Whoever
comes to shroud me, do not harm
Nor question much
That subtle wreath of hair about mine arm;
The mystery, the sign you must not touch,
For `tis my outward soul,
Viceroy to that which, unto heaven being gone,
Will leave this to control
And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution. John Donne The Funeral
Whoever
loves, if he do not propose
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick. John Donne Love's Progress
Quotes of the Week - December 2, 2008:
"I go to bed at, like, 9.30 every night and I don't go out or anything.
I just feel like an old fart." -- Britney Spears discovers the true
meaning of being a parent.
"God and the devil: I got one on each shoulder." -- Brandon
Flowers, frontman of The Killers.
"Money can be a burden. That's why I got stressed last year. I had
a massive house that I couldn't control or clean." -- Carly Zucker,
24, girlfriend of Chelsea soccer player Joe Cole, speaking on 'I'm a Celebrity...Get
Me Out of Here!'
"He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family
silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house
as well." -- London Mayor Boris Johnson on UK PM Gordon Brown's high
borrowing budget.
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