Edmund spenser
- “Halfe furious unto his foe he came, Resolved in mind all suddenly to win.”
- “And on (Redcrosse’s) brest a bloddie Crosse he bore,
For dear remembrance of his dying Lord.”
- “Therewith she (Error) spewed out of her filthy maw
A floud of poyson horrible and blacke”
- “His lady sad to see sore constraint,
Cried out, now now Sir Knight, shew what ye bee,
Add faith unto your force, and be not faint:
Strangle her else she sure will strangle thee”.
Andrew Marvell
- “……………I would
Love you ten years before the flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.”
- “The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.”
- “Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.”
- “Two hundred to adore each breast;
But thirty thousand to the rest.”
- “Had we but World enough Time, This coyness Lady were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way, To walk, and pass our long Loves Day”.
- “Is the conjunction of the mind And opposition of the stars”
- “Two perfect lovers; nor lets them close:
Their union would her ruine be,”
- “It was begotten by Despair,
Upon Impossibility………….”
- “For Fate with jealous eye ‘does see/
Two perfect Lovers; nor lets them close:”
George Herbert
- “O let me rise
As larks, harmoniously,”
- “I struck the board, and cried, “No more;
I will abroad!
What? shall I ever sigh and pine?”
- “ME thought I heard one calling, Child!
And I replied My Lord.
John Donne
- “Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.”
- “She’s all states, and all princes, I,
Nothing else is.”
- “Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”
- “If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.”
- “She’s all states, and all princes I
Nothing else is.”
- “If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two,
Thy soul fixt foot makes no show
To move, but doth, if th’other do”.
- “Take you a course, get you a place,
Observe his honour, or his Grace”.
- “Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to ayery thinness beat”.
John Milton
- “To reign is worth ambition through Hell
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
- “Farewell happy fields
Where joy forever dwells: hail horrors, hail…
Receive thy new possessor”
- “Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering”
- “A mind not to be changed by place or times
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a
Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven”.
- “Oh how unlike the place from which they have fallen.”
“Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell,
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
- “What though the field be lost?
All is not lost, the unconquerable will,
- And the study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield,
And what is else not to be overcome?”
- “Farewell, happy fields,
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven”.
- “To reign is worth ambition though Hell
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
- “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
- “Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering”
