Elegy II: The Anagram (John Donne Poem)
Marry, and love thy Flavia, for she Hath all things whereby others beautious be, For, though her eyes be small, ...
Marry, and love thy Flavia, for she Hath all things whereby others beautious be, For, though her eyes be small, ...
Father, part of his double interest Unto thy kingdom, thy Son gives to me, His jointure in the knotty Trinity ...
Oh, let me not serve so, as those men serve Whom honour's smokes at once fatten and starve; Poorly enrich't ...
As due by many titles I resign My self to Thee, O God; first I was made By Thee, and ...
Why are we by all creatures waited on? Why do the prodigal elements supply Life and food to me, being ...
She's dead; and all which die To their first elements resolve; And we were mutual elements to us, And made ...
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill, As the ...
Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest, My soul, this wholesome meditation, How God the Spirit, by angels ...
In what torn ship soever I embark, That ship shall be my emblem of thy Ark; What sea soever swallow ...
O might those sighs and tears return again Into my breast and eyes, which I have spent, That I might ...
Once, and but once found in thy company, All thy supposed escapes are laid on me; And as a thief ...
I am unable, yonder beggar cries, To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies. (John Donne)
No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face. Young beauties force our ...
Although thy hand and faith, and good works too, Have sealed thy love which nothing should undo, Yea though thou ...
Oh my black soul! now art thou summoned By sickness, death's herald, and champion; Thou art like a pilgrim, which ...
When I am dead, and doctors know not why, And my friends' curiosity Will have me cut up to survey ...
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away, Turn thou ghost that ...
For every hour that thou wilt spare me now I will allow, Usurious God of Love, twenty to thee, When ...
I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye; My picture drowned in a ...
Send me some token, that my hope may live, Or that my easeless thoughts may sleep and rest; Send me ...
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot A constant habit; that when I would not ...
Send home my long stray'd eyes to me, Which O too long have dwelt on thee, Yet since there they ...
Tho has made me, and shall thy work decay? Repair me now, for now mine end doth haste; I run ...
Here take my picture; though I bid farewell, Thine, in my heart, where my soul dwells, shall dwell. 'Tis like ...
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents ...
Upon this Primrose hill, Where, if Heav'n would distil A shower of rain, each several drop might go To his ...
Image of her whom I love, more than she, Whose fair impression in my faithful heart Makes me her medal, ...
What if this present were the world's last night? Mark in my heart, O soul, where thou dost dwell, The ...
Show me, dear Christ, thy Spouse, so bright and clear. What! is it She, which on the other shore Goes ...
He that cannot choose but love, And strives against it still, Never shall my fancy move, For he loves 'gainst ...
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