Author: John Donne

At the round earth’s imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, […]

He is stark mad, who ever says, That he hath been in love an hour, Yet not that love so […]

Now thou hast loved me one whole day, Tomorrow when thou leav’st, what wilt thou say? Wilt thou then antedate […]

Father, part of his double interest Unto thy kingdom, thy Son gives to me, His jointure in the knotty Trinity […]

Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone, That thee I shall not […]

Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, […]

I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite; But black sin hath betrayed to endless […]

Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy […]

When by thy scorn, O murd’ress, I am dead, And that thou think’st thee free From all solicitation from me, […]

I can love both fair and brown, Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays, Her who loves loneness […]

As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do […]

For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey […]

Oh, let me not serve so, as those men serve Whom honour’s smokes at once fatten and starve; Poorly enrich’t […]

Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which is my sin, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive […]

I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye; My picture drowned in a […]

Nature’s lay idiot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistry, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtle: Foole, thou […]

Take heed of loving me; At least remember I forbade it thee; Not that I shall repair my unthrifty waste […]

Upon this Primrose hill, Where, if Heav’n would distil A shower of rain, each several drop might go To his […]

No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face. Young beauties force our […]

Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest, My soul, this wholesome meditation, How God the Spirit, by angels […]

I never stoop’d so low, as they Which on an eye, cheeke, lip, can prey, Seldom to them, which soare […]

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents […]

Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or […]

No Lover saith, I love, nor any other Can judge a perfect Lover; Hee thinkes that else none can, nor […]

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 […]

When I am dead, and doctors know not why, And my friends’ curiosity Will have me cut up to survey […]

No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. […]

Tho has made me, and shall thy work decay? Repair me now, for now mine end doth haste; I run […]

As due by many titles I resign My self to Thee, O God; first I was made By Thee, and […]