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

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity..

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 l….

Music, the mosaic of the air..

How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short….

Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone..

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade..

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near..

Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide..

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree..

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

My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass..

Therefore the love which us doth bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars..

But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt..

No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, a….

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow..

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds..

And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time..

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be ….

Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within..

How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?.