Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)

Venus and Adonis (1593) is a poem by Shakespeare on a theme drawn from the Metamorphoses of Ovid. It was probably his first published work.

Quotes

 * Hunting he lov'd, but love he laugh'd to scorn.
 * Line 4


 * Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear, Or like a fairy trip upon the green, Or, like a nymph, with long dishevell'd hair, Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen: Love is a spirit all compact of fire, Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.
 * Line 145


 * Affection is a coal that must be cool'd; Else, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire.
 * Line 387


 * Foul words and frowns must not repel a lover; What though the rose have prickles, yet 'tis pluck'd: Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.
 * Line 573


 * For where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy Doth call himself Affection's sentinel; Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny.
 * Line 649


 * This carry-tale, dissentious Jealousy, That sometime true news, sometime false doth bring.
 * Line 657


 * Danger deviseth shifts; wit waits on fear.
 * Line 690


 * Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
 * Line 799


 * Lo! here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty.
 * Line 853


 * Grief hath two tongues: and never woman yet, Could rule them both without ten women's wit.
 * Line 1007


 * For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.
 * Line 1019