The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Who live under the shadow of a war’ (1933)
Their collected
Hearts wound up with love, like little watch springs.
‘The Past Values’ (1939)
Pylons, those pillars
Bare like nude, giant girls that have no secret.
‘The Pylons’ (1933)
Consider: only one bullet in ten thousand kills a man.
Ask: was so much expenditure justified
On the death of one so young and so silly
Stretched under the olive trees, Oh, world, Oh, death?
‘Regum Ultimo Ratio’ (1933)
7.141 Edmund Spenser c.1552-99
The merry cuckoo, messenger of Spring,
His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
‘Amoretti’ (1595) sonnet 19
Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day
Didst make thy triumph over death and sin:
And, having harrowed hell, didst bring away
Captivity thence captive, us to win.
‘Amoretti’ (1595) sonnet 68
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought,
—Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
‘Amoretti’ (1595) sonnet 68
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king,
In whose coat armour richly are displayed
All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring
In goodly colours gloriously arrayed.
‘Amoretti’ (1595) sonnet 70
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washéd it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize,
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wipéd out likewise.
Not so, quoth I, let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: