Poetry Quotes

Come, let us go while we are in our prime;
And take the harmless folly of the time.
‎We shall grow old apace, and die
‎Before we know our liberty.
‎Our life is short, and our days run
‎As fast away as does the sun;
And, as a vapour or a drop of rain,
Once lost, can ne'er be found again,
‎So when or you or I are made
‎A fable, song, or fleeting shade,
‎All love, all liking, all delight
Lies drowned with us in endless night.
Then while time serves, and we are but decaying,
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.

Why are we by all creatures waited on?
Why do the prodigal elements supply
Life and food to me, being more pure than I,
Simple, and further from corruption?
Why brook'st thou, ignorant horse, subjection?
Why dost thou, bull, and bore so seelily,
Dessemble weakness, and by one man's stroke die,
Whose whole kind you might swallow and feed upon?
Weaker I am, woe is me, and worse than you,
You have not sinned, nor need be timorous.
But wonder at a greater wonder, for to us
Created nature doth these things subdue,
But their Creator, whom sin nor nature tied,
For us, His creatures, and His foes, hath died.