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John Donne
(1572-1631 / London / England)
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21      Antiquary
22      Ascension
23      At the round earth's imagin'd corners
24      Break of Day
25      Break of Day (another of the same)
26      Community
27      Confined Love
28      Crucifying
29      Daybreak
30      Death
31      Death Be Not Proud
32      Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)
33      Disinherited
34      Eclogue
35      Elegy I: Jealousy
36      Elegy II: The Anagram
37      Elegy III: Change
38      Elegy IV: The Perfume
39      Elegy IX: The Autumnal
40      Elegy V: His Picture
        
 

 
 
 
  Elegy IV: The Perfume

Once, and but once found in thy company,
All thy supposed escapes are laid on me;
And as a thief at bar is questioned there
By all the men that have been robed that year,
So am I (by this traiterous means surprized)
By thy hydroptic father catechized.
Though he had wont to search with glazed eyes,
As though he came to kill a cockatrice,
Though he hath oft sworn that he would remove
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