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John Donne: Prayer XIV. Idque notant criticis

PrayerJohn Donne O ETERNAL and most gracious God, who, though thou didst permit darkness to be before light in the creation, yet in the making of light didst so multiply that light, as that…

I Sleep Not Day nor Night

I Sleep Not Day nor NightInterea Insomnes Noctes Ego Duco, DiesqueMeditationJohn Donne NATURAL men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; that it is a refreshing of the body in this life;…

John Donne: Expostulation XV. Interea insomnes

ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, I know (for thou hast said it) that “he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep”: [Ps. 121:4] but shall not that Israel, over whom thou…

John Donne: Prayer XV. Interea insomnes

PrayerJohn Donne O ETERNAL and most gracious God, who art able to make, and dost make, the sick bed of thy servants chapels of ease to them, and the dreams of thy servants prayers and…

John Donne: Expostulation XVII. Nunc lento

ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, is this one of thy ways of drawing light out of darkness, to make him for whom this bell tolls, now in this dimness of his sight, to become a…

John Donne: Prayer XVII. Nunc lento

PrayerJohn Donne O ETERNAL and most gracious God, who hast been pleased to speak to us, not only in the voice of nature, who speaks in our hearts, and of thy word, which speaks to our ears,…