Metempsycosis (John Donne Poems)
THEPROGRESSEOF THE SOULE.First Song.I.sing of the progresse of a deathlesse soule,Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not controule,Plac'd in ...
John Donne Poems on Heaven (17 Poems)
A Litany (John Donne Poems)
I.THE FATHER. FATHER of Heaven, and Him, by whom It, and us for it, and all else for us, Thou madest, and govern'st ...
Eclogue (John Donne Poems)
I6I3, DECEMBER 26.ALLOPHANES FINDING IDIOS IN THE COUNTRY IN CHRISTMAS TIME, REPREHENDS HIS ABSENCE FROM COURT, AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET ; IDIOS GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF HIS PURPOSE THEREIN, AND OF HIS ACTIONS THERE. ALLOPHANES.UNSEASONABLE man, statue of ice,What could to ...
Satire III (John Donne Poems)
Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids Those tears to issue which swell my eyelids; I must not laugh, nor weep ...
Elegy XIII: His Parting From Her (John Donne Poems)
SINCE she must go, and I must mourn, come night,Environ me with darkness, whilst I write ;Shadow that hell unto ...
The Calm (John Donne Poems)
Our storm is past, and that storm's tyrannous rage, A stupid calm, but nothing it, doth 'suage. The fable is inverted, and ...
To Sir Henry Goodyere (John Donne Poems)
WHO makes the last a pattern for next year, Turns no new leaf, but still the same things reads ;Seen things ...
Upon The Translation Of The Psalms By Sir Philip Sidney And The Countess Of Pembroke, His Sister (John Donne Poems)
ETERNAL God-for whom who ever dareSeek new expressions, do the circle square,And thrust into straight corners of poor witThee, who ...
Elegy XX: To His Mistress Going to Bed (John Donne Poems)
Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy,Until I labor, I in labor lie.The foe oft-times having the foe in ...
Elegy XX: (Alternate) Love’s War (John Donne Poems)
Till I have peace with thee, warr other Men,And when I have peace, can I leave thee then?All other Warrs ...
Resurrection (John Donne Poems)
Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast As yet, the wound thou took'st on friday last; Sleep then, ...
TO MR. I. P. (John Donne Poems)
BLEST are your north parts, for all this long timeMy sun is with you ; cold and dark's our clime ...
On Himself (John Donne Poems)
My fortune and my choice this custom break,When we are speechless grown to make stones speak.Though no stone tell thee ...
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 ...
Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God, As He Thee? Then Digest (John Donne Poem)
Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest, My soul, this wholesome meditation, How God the Spirit, by angels ...
Celestial Music (John Donne Poem)
I have a friend who still believes in heaven. Not a stupid person, yet with all she knows, she literally ...
Holy Sonnet XVII: Since She Whom I Loved (John Donne Poem)
Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt To Nature, and to hers, and my good is dead, ...