Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God (John Donne Poems)
Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest,My Soul, this wholesome meditation,How God the Spirit, by Angels waited onIn ...
Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest,My Soul, this wholesome meditation,How God the Spirit, by Angels waited onIn ...
An Angel came and cried to him by night,'God needs a Martyr from your little band;Name me the purest soul, ...
When in this room I turn in pondering paceAnd find thine eyes upon me where I stand,Led on, as by ...
Now every leaf, though colorless, burns brightWith disembodied and celestial light,And drops without a movement or a soundA pillar of ...
1Let us go where there are varied craftsAnd trades -- shashlik and chebureki,Where trousers on a sign give usThe idea ...
This that you see, the false presentment plannedWith finest art and all the colored showsAnd reasonings of shade, doth but ...
Our white-winged ship is sailing, sailingInto the mild sea-calm of the past;And the twilight stars are flashing, paling,And the oars ...
I would I might forget that I am I,And break the heavy chain that binds me fast,Whose links about myself ...
I would I might forget that I am I,And break the heavy chain that binds me fast,Whose links about myself ...
Hail, trackless waste! a heart made desolateSpeeds from a sterner solitude to thee!O, let me, lost in contemplation, beAmong thy ...
The bicycles go by in twos and threes -There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night,And there's the half-talk code ...
After several fruitless attemptsContact was established between the world and meI felt a deep enough reliefFor the solitude and the ...
you had swept back your bangs for the first timewhen I saw you under the apple treethe flower-comb in your ...
That white house - a reflection, where the two of us will live,where a lonely boy will play with wet ashberries;where we ...
The moon relinquished sharp-edge cliffs at sea line,And with transparent gold: the waters shine;On board of their pointed boat, this ...
Suspended to a tree in the midst of an intricate wood ofsingularly romantic beauty, as a direction to the Hermitagehid ...
How happy my heart is, how buoyant,On my boat so tiny and light,I am sailing the ripples and lightAll day ...
Cattle egrets in the dry grass wadedlike white clerics at the hoovesof brood cows, heifers, and new calves.Forked lightning. Calm.The ...
Why no! I never thought other thanThat God is that great absenceIn our lives, the empty silenceWithin, the place where ...
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam,The meditation that is rather dream,With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks;The hour ...
I know no fitter subject for your viewThen this, a meditation ripe for you,As you for it. Which when you ...
Thinking you had a heart that love could break,A lovely gentle soul that might awake,I held you tenderly for either's ...
He offered but a poor defence,That advocate of mine;And yet, despite the evidence,The penalty was fine.The greater mystery it isThe ...
Let amicitia in her ample reignExtend her notes to a Celestial strainBenevolent far more divinely BrightAmor like me doth triumph ...
WITH GOD'S GRACE-Look back and help for humanity's sake.Measure your charity by the acts of others toward youwhile you were ...
THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, ...
Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be ...
The Infinite always is silent:It is only the Finite speaks.Our words are the idle wave-capsOn the deep that never breaks.We ...
Nightly the autumn wind knocks on the screen. Weeds riot outside this desolate mountain dwelling. Long since, my mind withdrew to meditation. For ...
girls take sprouts of rice.reflection of water flickerson backs of sedge hats.(Kyoshi Takahama)
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