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...
alike loves none thou
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.
both break ghost happiest last selves sucks thou turn
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, / And let our selves benight our happiest day.
love thou whom
O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.
busy call curtains dost motions seasons thou thy unruly
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, / Why dost thou thus, / Through windows, and through curtains call on us? / Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
broke dear dream happy less strong thee theme therefore thou
Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For reason, much too strong for fantasy, / Therefore thou waked'st me wisely; yet / My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.
atheist felt love rebel though worst
Rebel and Atheist too, why murmur I, / As though I felt the worst that love could do?
bodies far though
But O alas, so long, so far / Our bodies why do we forbear? / They're ours, though they're not we, we are / The intelligences, they the sphere.
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.