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...
death sheets intricate
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
love book soul
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
war justice age
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
retirement farewell lasts
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.
love sea sick
Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.
love running fool
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
life war book
All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another
cat men lions
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
educational philosophy sight
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
christian anger sun
The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
wicked
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
integrity sleep night
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
book reading lovers
I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.
god angel doors
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.