Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot. Teach me to hear mermaids singing.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.John Donne
Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.
John Donne
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
John Donne
When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust. Called by His Majestys household the Doctors Own Funeral Sermon.
John Donne
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
John Donne
She is all States, and all Princes, I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us.
John Donne
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