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

See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas bor….

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….

Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Tho….

The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace..

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try..

Music, the mosaic of the air..

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

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

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe..

As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet..

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head..

Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . ..

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

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness..

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns.

Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining always, disappears In the weak circ….

Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus….

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility..

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

So much one man can do that does both act and know..