Let all thy joys be as the month of May

Quote byFrancis Quarles · 1592–1644

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: To a Bride..

English (original)

Let all thy joys be as the month of May And all thy days be as a marriage day: Let sorrow, sickness, and a troubled mind Be stranger to thee.

— Francis Quarles

Reason can discover Things only near; sees nothing that's above her.

Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.

Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends.

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown.

He that loves thee, He that keeps And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.