The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

To fit a bed for this huge birth.
‘Hymn of the Nativity’ (1652)
Welcome, all wonders in one sight!
Eternity shut in a span.
‘Hymn of the Nativity’ (1652)
I would be married, but I’d have no wife,
I would be married to a single life.
‘On Marriage’ (1646)
Lo here a little volume, but large book.
‘Prayer...prefixed to a little Prayer-book’
It is love’s great artillery
Which here contracts itself and comes to lie
Close couched in your white bosom.
‘Prayer...prefixed to a little Prayer-book’
Two walking baths; two weeping motions;
Portable, and compendious oceans.
‘Saint Mary Magdalene, or The Weeper’ (1652) st. 19
All is Caesar’s; and what odds
So long as Caesar’s self is God’s?
‘Steps to the Temple’ (1646) ‘Mark 12’
And when life’s sweet fable ends,
Soul and body part like friends;
No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;
A kiss, a sigh, and so away.
‘Temperance’ (1652)
Whoe’er she be,
That not impossible she
That shall command my heart and me;
Where’er she lie,
Locked up from mortal eye,
In shady leaves of destiny.
‘Wishes to His Supposed Mistress’ (1648)
3.196 Julia Crawford fl. 1835
Kathleen Mavourneen! the grey dawn is breaking,
The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill;
The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking;
Kathleen Mavourneen! what, slumbering still?
Oh! hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?
Oh! hast thou forgotten this day we must part?