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.
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.
except nor shall
For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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.
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.
heavens last
This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint / My pilgrimage's last mile.
thee kill-me dies
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill 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.
mercy all-time all-occasions
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
rejection body
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.