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John Donne
John Donne

Holy Sonnet XII: Why Are We By All Creatures Waited On?

Holy Sonnet XII: Why Are We By All Creatures Waited On?

Why are we by all creatures waited on?
Why do the prodigal elements supply
Life and food …

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John Donne
John Donne

Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jews, And Pierce My Side

Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jews, And Pierce My Side

Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side,
Buffet, and scoff, scourge, and crucify me,

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John Donne
John Donne

Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud

Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud

Death, be not proud, though some have callèd thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou…

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John Donne
John Donne

Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jewes

Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jewes

Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side,
Buffet, and scoffe, scourge, and crucifie mee,
For I hav…

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John Donne
John Donne

Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithfull Soules

Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithfull Soules

If faithfull soules be alike glorifi'd
As Angels, then my fathers soul doth see,
And adds this even to full…

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John Donne
John Donne

Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow

Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow

At the round earth's imagined corners blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
Fr…

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John Donne
John Donne

Holy Sonnet VI: This Is My Playes Last Scene

Holy Sonnet VI: This Is My Playes Last Scene

This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint
My pilgrimages last mile; and my race
Idly, yet q…

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John Donne
John Donne

Holy Sonnet V: I Am a Little World

Holy Sonnet V: I Am a Little World

I am a little world made cunningly
Of Elements, and an Angelike spright,
But black sinne hath betraid to endle…

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John Donne
John Donne

Holy Sonnet IV: Oh my black soul!

Holy Sonnet IV: Oh my black soul!

Oh my black soul! now art thou summoned
By sickness, death's herald, and champion;
Thou art like a pilgrim, whi…

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John Donne
John Donne

Holy Sonnet II: As Due By Many Titles I Resign

Holy Sonnet II: As Due By Many Titles I Resign

As due by many titles I resign
My self to Thee, O God; first I was made
By Thee, and for Thee, and…

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John Donne
John Donne

Hero and Leander

Hero and Leander

Both robb'd of air, we both lie in one ground ;
Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drown'd

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John Donne
John Donne

Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me

Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me

Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
Repair me now, for now mine end doth haste;
I run to death, and dea…

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John Donne
John Donne

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward

Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this,
The intelligence that moves, devotion is
And as the other Sphe…

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John Donne
John Donne

From ‘The Cross’

From ‘The Cross’

Who can blot out the Cross, which th’instrument
Of God, dew’d on me in the Sacrament?
Who can deny me power, and liberty

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John Donne
John Donne

Farewell to Love

Farewell to Love

Whilst yet to prove,
I thought there was some deity in love
So did I reverence, and gave
Worship, as atheists at their d…

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John Donne
John Donne

Epithalamion Made At Lincoln's Inn

Epithalamion Made At Lincoln's Inn

I

HAIL sun-beams in the east are spread ;
Leave, leave, fair bride, your solitary bed ;
No mor…

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John Donne
John Donne

Elegy:The End of Funeral Elegies

Elegy:The End of Funeral Elegies

MADAM—
That I might make your cabinet my tomb,
And for my fame, which I love next my soul,
Next to my so…

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John Donne
John Donne

Elegy XX (Alternate) Love's War

Elegy XX (Alternate) Love's War

Till I have peace with thee, warr other Men,
And when I have peace, can I leave thee then?
All other Warrs are sc…

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John Donne
John Donne

Elegy XVII: On His Mistress

Elegy XVII: On His Mistress

By our first strange and fatal interview,
By all desires which thereof did ensue,
By our long starving hopes, by that…

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John Donne
John Donne

Elegy XVI: On His Mistress

Elegy XVI: On His Mistress

By our first strange and fatal interview,
By all desires which thereof did ensue,
By our long starving hopes, by that …

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John Donne
John Donne

Elegy XIV: Julia

Elegy XIV: Julia

Hark, news, O envy ; thou shalt hear descried
My Julia ; who as yet was ne'er envied.
To vomit gall in slander, swell her veins …

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John Donne
John Donne

Elegy XII

Elegy XII

COME Fates ; I fear you not ! All whom I owe
Are paid, but you ; then 'rest me ere I go.
But Chance from you all sovereignty hath got ;…

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John Donne
John Donne

Elegy VIII: The Comparison

Elegy VIII: The Comparison

As the sweet sweat of roses in a still,
As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill,
As the almighty balm of th' ear…

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John Donne
John Donne

Elegy VI

Elegy VI

Oh, let me not serve so, as those men serve
Whom honour's smokes at once fatten and starve;
Poorly enrich't with great men's words or lo…

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