The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
‘Songs and Sonnets’ ‘The Bait’
A naked thinking heart, that makes no show,
Is to a woman, but a kind of ghost.
‘Songs and Sonnets’ ‘The Blossom’ l. 27
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
‘Songs and Sonnets’ ‘The Canonization’
Dear love, for nothing less than thee
Would I have broke this happy dream,
It was a theme
For reason, much too strong for fantasy,
Therefore thou waked’st me wisely; yet
My dream thou brok’st not, but continued’st it.
‘Songs and Sonnets’ ‘The Dream’ (‘Dear love, for nothing less than thee’)
So, if I dream I have you, I have you,
For, all our joys are but fantastical.
‘Songs and Sonnets’ ‘The Dream’ (‘Image of her whom I love’)
Where, like a pillow on a bed,
A pregnant bank swelled up, to rest
The violet’s reclining head,
Sat we two, one another’s best.
‘Songs and Sonnets’ ‘The Ecstasy’
But O alas, so long, so far
Our bodies why do we forbear?
They’re ours, though they’re not we, we are
The intelligencies, they the sphere.
‘Songs and Sonnets’ ‘The Ecstasy’
So must pure lovers’ souls descend
T’ affections, and to faculties,
Which sense may reach and apprehend,
Else a great prince in prison lies.
‘Songs and Sonnets’ ‘The Ecstasy’
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss,
Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,
Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this,
And let our selves benight our happiest day.
We asked none leave to love; nor will we owe
Any, so cheap a death, as saying, Go.
‘Songs and Sonnets’ ‘The Expiration’