The Complete Poems of John Donne ...

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Page 112 - And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it. And freely men confesse that this world's spent, When in the Planets, and the Firmament They seeke so many new ; they see that this Is crumbled out againe to his Atomies. 'Tis all in peeces, all cohaerence gone; All just supply, and all Relation...
Page 256 - Here lies a she sun, and a he moon here, She gives the best light to his sphere, Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe...
Page 33 - All signs of loathing; but since I am in, I must pay mine and my forefathers' sin To the last farthing. Therefore to my power Toughly and stubbornly I bear this cross.
Page 132 - Which brings a Taper to the outward roome, Whence thou spiest first a little glimmering light, And after brings it nearer to thy sight : For such approaches doth heaven make in death.
Page 137 - She, of whose soul, if we may say, 'twas gold, Her body was th' electrum, and did hold Many degrees of that; we understood Her by her sight, her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought...
Page 31 - And for his price doth with whoever comes Of all our Harrys and our Edwards talk, From king to king, and all their kin can walk. Your ears shall hear nought but kings ; your eyes meet Kings only ; the way to it is King's street.
Page 111 - Till man came up, did downe to man descend, This man, so great, that all that is, is his, Oh what a trifle, and poore thing he is...
Page 253 - Valentine's Day I Hail Bishop Valentine, whose day this is, All the air is thy diocese, And all the chirping choristers And other birds are thy parishioners; Thou marriest every year The lyric lark, and the grave whispering dove, The sparrow that neglects his life for love, The household bird, with the red stomacher; Thou mak'st the blackbird speed as soon, As doth the goldfinch, or the halcyon; The husband cock looks out, and straight is sped, And meets his wife, which brings her feather-bed.
Page 137 - Twenty such parts, whose plenty and riches is Enough to make twenty such worlds as this...
Page 254 - Up, up, fair bride, and call. Thy stars, from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation, of them all...

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