John Donne

1572-1631 / Male / English

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Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last sceneThis is my play's last scene; here heavens appoint / My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race, / Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace,

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Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that treeIf poisonous minerals, and if that tree / Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, / If lecherous goats, if serpents envious

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Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That TreeIf poisonous minerals, and if that tree / Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, / If lecherous goats, if serpents envious

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Witchcraft By A PictureI fix mine eye on thine, and there / Pity my picture burning in thine eye; / My picture drowned in a transparent tear,

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Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In OneOh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: / Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot / A constant habit; that when I would not

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Holy Sonnet III: O Might Those Sighs And Tears Return AgainO might those sighs and tears return again / Into my breast and eyes, which I have spent, / That I might in this holy discontent

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A Lame BeggarI am unable, yonder beggar cries, / To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies.

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John Donne - The ParadoxNo Lover saith, I love, nor any other / Can judge a perfect Lover; / Hee thinkes that else none can, nor will agree

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The Sun RisingBusy old fool, unruly sun, / Why dost thou thus, / Through windows and through curtains, call on us?

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An Anatomy Of The World...AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD Wherein, by occasion of the untimely death of / Mistress Elizabeth Drury, the frailty and the decay of this whole world is / represented THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY

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