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Poet and politician · English · 1621–1678
English poet and politician (1621–1678)
“In busy companies of men.”
“Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.”
“What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do r...”
“Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds...”
“Casting the body's vest aside,My soul into the boughs does glide.”
“My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.”
“Love's whole world on us doth wheel.”