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John Donne
John Donne

To The Countess Of Bedford I

To The Countess Of Bedford I

MADAM—
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right ;
By these we reach divinity, that's you ;
Their love…

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John Donne
John Donne

To The Earl Of Doncaster

To The Earl Of Doncaster

SEE, sir, how, as the sun's hot masculine flame
Begets strange creatures on Nile's dirty slime,
In me your fatherly yet …

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John Donne
John Donne

TO Mr.T.W.

TO Mr.T.W.

PREGNANT again with th' old twins, Hope and Fear,
Oft have I asked for thee, both how and where
Thou wert ; and what my hopes of lette…

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John Donne
John Donne

To Sir Henry Wotton At His Going Ambassador To Venice

To Sir Henry Wotton At His Going Ambassador To Venice

AFTER those reverend papers, whose soul is
Our good and great king's loved hand and fear'd name ; <…

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John Donne
John Donne

To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders

To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders

THOU, whose diviner soul hath caused thee now
To put thy hand unto the holy plough,
Making lay-scornings …

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John Donne
John Donne

To Mr. Rowland Woodward

To Mr. Rowland Woodward

LIKE one who in her third widowhood doth profess
Herself a nun, tied to retiredness,
So affects my Muse, now, a chaste fa…

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John Donne
John Donne

To His Mistress Going to Bed

To His Mistress Going to Bed

Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defy,
Until I labour, I in labour lie.
The foe oft-times having the foe in sig…

303
John Donne
John Donne

The Will

The Will

Before I sigh my last gasp, let me breathe,
Great Love, some legacies ; I here bequeath
Mine eyes to Argus, if mine eyes can see ;

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John Donne
John Donne

The Sun Rising

The Sun Rising

Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on
us?

Must to …

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John Donne
John Donne

The Triple Fool

The Triple Fool

I am two fools, I know-
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry;
But where's that wiseman that would not be I,

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John Donne
John Donne

The Paradox

The Paradox

No Lover saith, I love, nor any other
Can judge a perfect Lover;
Hee thinkes that else none can, nor will agree
That any love…

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John Donne
John Donne

The Prohibition

The Prohibition

Take heed of loving me,
At least remember, I forbade it thee;
Not that I shall repair my unthrifty waste
Of breath and bl…

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John Donne
John Donne

The Legacy

The Legacy

When I died last, and, Dear, I die
As often as from thee I go,
Though it be but an hour ago,
And Lovers' hours be full eternit…

465
John Donne
John Donne

The Harbinger

The Harbinger

to the Progresse.

TWo soules moue here, and mine (a third) must moue
Paces of admiration, and of loue;
Thy soule (D…

353
John Donne
John Donne

The Ecstasy

The Ecstasy

Where, like a pillow on a bed
A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest
The violet's reclining head,
Sat we two, one another's best.…

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John Donne
John Donne

The Flea

The Flea

Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deny'st me is;
It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,
And in t…

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John Donne
John Donne

The Curse

The Curse

Whoever guesses, thinks, or dreams, he knows
Who is my mistress, wither by this curse ;
Him, only for his purse
May some dull w…

449
John Donne
John Donne

The Dissolution

The Dissolution

She's dead; and all which die
To their first elements resolve;
And we were mutual elements to us,
And made of one another…

345
John Donne
John Donne

The Broken Heart

The Broken Heart

He is stark mad, who ever says,
That he hath been in love an hour,
Yet not that love so soon decays,
But that it can ten…

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John Donne
John Donne

The Canonization

The Canonization

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,
Or chide my palsy, or my gout,
My five grey hairs, or ruin'd fortune flout,

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John Donne
John Donne

The Annunciation And Passion

The Annunciation And Passion

TAMELY, frail body, abstain to-day ; to-day
My soul eats twice, Christ hither and away.
She sees Him man, so like Go…

348
John Donne
John Donne

The Bait

The Bait

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, …

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John Donne
John Donne

Sweetest Love, I do not go

Sweetest Love, I do not go

Sweetest love, I do not go,
For weariness of thee,
Nor in hope the world can show
A fitter love for me;

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John Donne
John Donne

That Time and Absence proves Rather helps than hurts to loves

That Time and Absence proves Rather helps than hurts to loves

ABSENCE, hear thou my protestation
Against thy strength,
Distance and length:

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