"If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but …"

"That subtle knot which makes us man: So must pure lovers' souls descend T' affections, and to faculties, Which sense …"

"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With sil…"

"Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy…"

"Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread Our eyes, upon one double string; So to entergraft our hands, as yet Was all th…"

"We then, who are this new soul, know Of what we are composed and made, For the' atomies of which we grow Are souls, w…"

"The world's whole sap is sunk: The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life i…"

"For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothing…"

"Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which ele…"

"Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book."