Why do the prodigal elements supply
Life and food to me, being more pure than I,
Simple, and further from corruption?
(Holy Sonnet XII: Why Are We By All Creatures Waited On?)
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So, if I dream I have you, For, all our joys are but fantastical.John Donne
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
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So, if I dream I have you, I have you, For all our joys are but fantastical.
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We are all conceived in close prison in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house prisoners still, though within larger walls and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
John Donne
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death things which are not.
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