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...
add again love unto
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years.
died god love talk
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, / Who died before the god of love was born.
alike loves none thou
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.
heart love rags
My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.
love thou whom
O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.
love saw white
Nurse, O my love is slain, I saw him go / O'er the white Alps alone.
constant full love
Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
atheist felt love rebel though worst
Rebel and Atheist too, why murmur I, / As though I felt the worst that love could do?
add again attain love second till unto
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
heavens last
This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint / My pilgrimage's last mile.
crystal golden pleasures silver
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
eyes pictures
Pictures in our eyes to get / Was all our propagation.
cooperation entire island man piece
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
mine
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am mine own Executioner.