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 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.
princes
She is all States, and all Princes, I, / Nothing else is. / Princes do but play us.
licence
Licence my roving hands, and let them goBefore, behind, between, above, below.
shall thy
If yet I have not all thy love, / Dear, I shall never have it all.
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.
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.
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.
mine
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.
except nor shall
For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
thee kill-me dies
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.