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 | "And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another
out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one
little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world,
each hath one, and is one." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "Sleep is pain"s easiest salve, and doth fulfill all offices of
death, except to kill." | |
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Found in the topic Sleep.
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| "Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right, By these wee reach
divinity...." | |
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Found in the topic Faith.
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| "Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole
course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but
I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs
me how to live." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Despair is the damp of hell, As joy is the serenity of
heaven." | |
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Found in the topic Despair.
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| "Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days,
months, which are the rags of time." | |
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Found in the topic Alike.
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| "She, and comparisons are odious." | |
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Found in the topic Comparison.
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| "Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either;
and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you,
then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the
love and death of Jesus Christ!" | |
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Found in the topic Coffee.
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| "That subtle knot which makes us man: So must pure lovers" souls
descend T" affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and
apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "Love"s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his
book." | |
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Found in the topic Body.
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| "Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be
unchaste." | |
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Found in the topic Chastity.
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| "Since I am coming to that holy room Where, with thy choir of saints
for evermore I shall be made thy music, as I come I tune the instrument
here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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| "God is so omnipresent.... God is an angel in an angel, and a stone
in a stone, and a straw in a straw." | |
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Found in the topic Angel.
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| "All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies,
one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better
language; and every chapter must be so translated; God emploies several
translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by
war, some by justice; but God"s hand is in every translation; and his hand
shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every
book shall lie open to one another." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends
absent speak." | |
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Found in the topic Letter.
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| "I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining
poetry." | |
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Found in the topic Fool.
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| "Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt
on thee." | |
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Found in the topic Eyes.
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| "No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy
friends or of thine own were; any man"s death diminishes me, because I am
involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell
tolls; It tolls for thee." | |
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Found in the topic Brotherhood.
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| "I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God,
and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his
Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the
whining of a door." | |
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Found in the topic God.
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