The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Holy Sonnets’ (after 1609) no. 10 (in J. Carey’s edition, OUP, 1990)
I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite.
‘Holy Sonnets’ (after 1609) no. 15 (in J. Carey’s edition, OUP, 1990)
What if this present were the world’s last night?
‘Holy Sonnets’ (after 1609) no. 19 (in J. Carey’s edition, OUP, 1990)
As thou
Art jealous, Lord, so I am jealous now,
Thou lov’st not, till from loving more, thou free
My soul; who ever gives, takes liberty:
O, if thou car’st not whom I love
Alas, thou lov’st not me.
‘A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s last going into Germany’ (1619)
Seal then this bill of my divorce to all.
‘A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s last going into Germany’ (1619)
To see God only, I go out of sight:
And to ’scape stormy days, I choose
An everlasting night.
‘A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s last going into Germany’ (1619)
Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,
Which is my sin, though it were done before?
Wilt thou forgive those sins, through which I run
And do them still: though still I do deplore?
When thou hast done, thou hast not done,
For, I have more.
Wilt thou forgive that sin by which I have won
Others to sin? and, made my sin their door?
Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun
A year, or two: but wallowed in, a score?
When thou has done, thou hast not done,
For I have more.
‘A Hymn to God the Father’ (1623)
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 now before.
‘Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness’ (1623)
Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb,
Now leaves his well-beloved imprisonment.