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...
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 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.
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.
faith left reason
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
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.
add again love unto
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years.
shall thy
If yet I have not all thy love, / Dear, I shall never have it all.
thee kill-me dies
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
steps small-steps tomorrow
Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
sickness wells knows
Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?
humiliation sanctification
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
poetry saying whining
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.