When we have run our passions' heat,
Love hither makes his best retreat:
The gods, that mortal beauty chase,
Still in a tree did end their race;
Apollo hunted Daphne so
Only that she might laurel grow;
And Pan did after Syrinx speed
Not as a nymph, but for a reed.
(Thoughts In A Garden)
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ThyrsisA Chast Soul, can never mis't.
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Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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Now then love me: time may take
Thee before thy time away:
Of this Need wee'l Virtue make,
And learn Love before we may.
Andrew Marvell
He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night.
Andrew Marvell
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