the true beginning of our end

• but earthlier happy is the rose distilled
  • now the hungry lion roars
• than that which withering on the virgin thorn
  • grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness
• if then true lovers have ever been crossed
  • it stands as an edict in destiny
  • now i but chide, but i should use thee worse

the course of true love never did run smooth

• with sweet musk-roses and with eglantine
• where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
  • little more than kin, and less than kind
• quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine
• i know a bank where the wild thyme grows
  • swift as a shadow
  • brief as the lightening in the collied night
  • short as any dream

that would hang us (Quillayute)

• thorny hedgehogs, be not seen
• come not near our fairy queen
  • jack shall have jill
  • the lunatic, the lover, and the poet
  • cupid is a knavish lad
  • i have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was
  • i'll put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes
  • i have an exposition of sleep come upon me
• you spotted snakes with double tounge
  • The Cullen Manor
• newts and blind-worms, do no wrong
  • the eye of man hath not heard
  • his tounge to conceive
  • the ear of man hath not seen
  • man's hand is not able to taste
  • nor his heart to report, what my dream was

it fell upon a little wester flower (forks)

• shall i compare thee to a summer's day
  • The Chaney Residence
• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
  • brevity is the soul of wit
  • this above all: to thine own self be true
• thou art more lovely and more temperate
• And summer's lease hath all too short a date
  • what a piece of work is man
  • how noble in reason
  • how infinite in faculty
  • in form and moving how express and admirable
  • in action how like an angel

before milk-white, now purple with love's wound (la push)

• Neither a borrower nor a lender be
  • The Clearwater Home
• There is nothing either good or bad
• For loan oft loses both itself and friend
  • and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry
• but thinking makes it so
  • in apprehension how like a god
  • thou canst not then be false to any man
• in my mind's eye
  • the beauty of the world
  • the paragon of animals
  • the lady doth protest too much, methinks
  • doubt that the sun doth move
  • doubt truth to be a liar
  • but never doubt i love

love looks not with the eyes (around the world)

• yet marked I where the bolt of cupid fell
• and the imperial votaress passed on
• in maiden meditation, fancy-free
• to be or not to be, that is the question
• and maidens call it love-in-idleness
  • so near the cradle of the fairy queen
  • the wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale
  • out of this wood do not desire to go

that is the madman; the lover all as frantic (awards)

• and as imagination bodies forth
• doth glance from heaven to earth; from earth to heaven
• the forms of things unknown
• the poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling

my heart is true as steel (ooc)

• hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence
  • and yonder shines aurora's harbinger
  • troop home to churchyards
  • night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast
  • at whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,
  • such tricks hath strong imagination
• weaving spiders come not here
  • here villain, drawn and ready. Where art thou?
  • a lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing
  • lord, what fools these mortals be
• beetles black, approach not near
  • rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind
  • do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?
  • i will speak daggers to her, but use none
  • all the world 's a stage