John Donne
John Donne
John Donnewas an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations...
pleasure ifs
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
dating church noble
How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.
subjects
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
graves feels humans
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
humiliation sanctification
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
true-joy heaven soul
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
doing-good lost communion
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
call ghosts life
Yet call not this long life; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?
declining sharp
Where can we find two better hemispheres/ Without sharp North, without declining West?
bank pillow pregnant rest sat
Where, like a pillow on a bed, / A pregnant bank swelled up, to rest / The violet's reclining head, / Sat we two, one another's best.
died full hour hours thee though
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 eternity.
died full hour hours lovers thee though
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 eternity.
benefit draws hook jaws sticks takes
There is a hook in every benefit that sticks in his jaws that takes the benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will
alike equally loves none thou whatever
Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.