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John Donne: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

A Valediction Forbidding MourningAs virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, “Now his breath goes,” and some say…

John Donne: Negative Love

Negative LoveI never stoop'd so low, as they Which on an eye, cheek, lip, can prey; Seldom to them which soar no higher Than virtue, or the mind to admire. For sense and…

John Donne: The Paradox

The ParadoxNo lover saith, I love, nor any other Can judge a perfect lover; He thinks that else none can or will agree, That any loves but he; I cannot say…

John Donne: Witchcraft by a Picture

Witchcraft by a PictureI fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye; My picture drown'd in a transparent tear, When I look lower I espy…

John Donne: Appendix A. Notes

Appendix A. Notes 1. Matt. 13:16. 2. 2 Kings 4:40. 3. Prov. 13:17. 5. 1 Sam. 24:15. 7. 2 Sam. 24:14. 8. Ps. 34:8. 9. Prov. 14:30. 10…

John Donne: Prayer I. Insultus morbi primus

PrayerJohn DonneO ETERNAL and most gracious God, who, considered in thyself, art a circle, first and last, and altogether; but, considered in thy working upon us, art a direct line, and…

John Donne: Prayer II. Post actio laesa

PrayerJohn Donne O MOST gracious God, who pursuest and perfectest thine own purposes, and dost not only remember me, by the first accesses of this sickness, that I must die, but inform me, by…