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Robert Browning (Fra Lippo Lippi)
     Curtain and counterpane and coverlet,
     All the bed-furniture--a dozen knots,
     There was a ladder! Down I let myself
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Robert Burns (Address to the Devil)
     Thence, mystic knots mak great abuse,
     On young guidmen, fond, keen, an' croose;
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George Gordon, Lord Byron (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage)
     Thy choral memory of the Bard divine,
     Thy love of Tasso, should have cut the knot
     Which ties thee to thy tyrants; and thy lot
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George Gordon, Lord Byron (Don Juan: Canto 4)
     And when he did, he found himself at sea
     Sailing six knots an hour before the wind;
     The shores of Ilion lay beneath their lee--
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Thomas Campion (Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes)
     Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair,
     Then thrice three times tie up this true love's knot,
     And murmur soft "She will, or she will not."
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Thomas Carew (To Ben Jonson)
     Praise, but excuse; and if thou overcome
     A knotty writer, bring the booty home;
     Nor think it theft if the rich spoils so torn
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Lady Mary Chudleigh (To the Ladies)
     But only differ in the name:
     For when that fatal knot is ty'd,
     Which nothing, nothing can divide:
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (On Donne's Poetry)
     With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots,
     Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots;
     Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue,
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George Crabbe (The Borough. Letter XXII: Peter Grimes)
     And though stern Peter, with a cruel hand,
     And knotted rope, enforced the rude command,
     Yet he considered what he'd lately felt,
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John Donne (The Ecstasy)
     Because such fingers need to knit
     That subtle knot which makes us man,
     So must pure lovers' souls descend
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John Donne (Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God)
     But am betroth'd unto your enemy;
     Divorce me, 'untie or break that knot again,
     Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
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Edward Fitzgerald (Rub iy t of Omar Khayy m)
     I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
     And many Knots unravel'd by the Road;
     But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate.
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Edward Fitzgerald (Rub iy t of Omar Khayy m)
     And many Knots unravel'd by the Road;
     But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate.
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Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke (Caelica)
     I, that on Sunday at the church-stile found
     A garland sweet, with true-love knots in flowers,
     Which I to wear about mine arm was bound,
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John Keats (The Eve of St. Agnes)
     All garlanded with carven imag'ries
     Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass,
     And diamonded with panes of quaint device,
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John Milton (Paradise Lost)
     Flow'rs worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art
     In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon
     Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain,
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William Morris (The Lady of the Land)
     Was of Diana, whom I did behold
     With knotted hair and shining girt-up gown,
     And on the high white brow a deadly frown
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude)
     And dark the shades accumulate. The oak,
     Expanding its immense and knotty arms,
     Embraces the light beech. The pyramids
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude)
     Was there. Even on the edge of that vast mountain,
     Upheld by knotty roots and fallen rocks,
     It overlooked in its serenity
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Sir Philip Sidney (Astrophel and Stella: XXXIX)
     Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
     The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
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Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queene)
     Her huge long taile her den all overspred,
     Yet was in knots and many boughtes upwound,
     Pointed with mortall sting. Of her there bred
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Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queene)
     Whose wreathed boughts when ever he unfoldes,
     And thicke entangled knots adown does slacke,
     Bespotted as with shields of red and blacke,
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Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queene)
     Of his froth-fomy steed, whose courage stout
     Striving to loose the knot, that fast him tyes,
     Himselfe in streighter bandes too rash implyes,
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Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queene)
     Inflam'd with wrath, his raging blade he heft,
     And strooke so strongly, that the knotty string
     Of his huge taile he quite a sunder cleft,
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Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queene)
     And her faire lockes, which formerly were bownd
     Up in one knot, she low adowne did lose:
     Which flowing long and thick, her cloth'd arownd,
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Alfred lord Tennyson (Mariana)
     Were thickly crusted, one and all:
     The rusted nails fell from the knots
     That held the pear to the gable-wall.
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Alfred lord Tennyson (Locksley Hall)
     Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies,
     Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.
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Henry Vaughan (The World)
     Wit's sour delights,
     With gloves, and knots, the silly snares of pleasure,
     Yet his dear treasure
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Thomas, Lord Vaux (The Aged Lover Renounceth Love)
     Ere nature me compel.
     My keepers knit the knot
     That youth did laugh to scorn,
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Sir Thomas Wyatt (Of the Mean and Sure Estate)
     Ye do mis-seek with more travail and care.
     Make plain thine heart, that it be not knotted
     With hope or dread, and see thy will be bare
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William Wordsworth (The Prelude)
     Nor less in springtime when on southern banks
     The shining sun had from his knot of leaves
     Decoy'd the primrose flower, and when the Vales
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William Wordsworth (The Prelude)
     Was not ignoble. Oh! when I have hung
     Above the raven's nest, by knots of grass
     And half-inch fissures in the slippery rock
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William Wordsworth (Laodamia)
     Of Hellespont (such faith was entertained)
     A knot of spiry trees for ages grew
     From out the tomb of him for whom she died;
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