“My Oberon, what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamored of an ass.”
“When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store;When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.This thought is as a death which cannot chooseBut weep to have that which it fears to lose.”
“I have drunk and seen the spider.”
“So fair and foul a day I have not seen.”
“By being seldom seen, I could not stir,But, like a comet, I was wondered at...He was but as the cuckoo is in June, Heard, not regarded--seen, but with such eyes,As, sick and blunted with community, Afford no extraordinary gaze.”
“Have I thought long to see this morning’s face,And doth it give me such a sight as this?”