The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Great things are done when men and mountains meet
This is not done by jostling in the street.
‘MS Note-Book’ p. 43
He who binds to himself a joy
Doth the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.
‘MS Note-Book’ p. 99 ‘Several Questions Answered’—“He who binds to himself a joy”
What is it men in women do require
The lineaments of gratified desire
What is it women do in men require
The lineaments of gratified desire.
‘MS Note-Book’ p. 99 ‘Several Questions Answered’—“What is it men in women do require”
The sword sung on the barren heath
The sickle in the fruitful field
The sword he sung a song of death,
But could not make the sickle yield.
‘MS Note-Book’ p. 105
Abstinence sows sand all over
The ruddy limbs and flaming hair
But Desire gratified
Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
‘MS Note-Book’ p. 105
Never pain to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.
‘MS Note-Book’ p. 115
Soon as she was gone from me
A traveller came by
Silently, invisibly
O was no deny.
‘MS Note-Book’ p. 115
Piping down the valleys wild
Piping songs of pleasant glee
On a cloud I saw a child.
And he laughing said to me.
Pipe a song about a Lamb;
So I piped with merry cheer,
Piper pipe that song again—