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On a round ball
A workman that hath copies by, can lay
An Europe, Afric, and an Asia,
And quickly make that, which was nothing, all;
So doth each tear,
Which thee doth wear,
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John Donne (1572-1631), British poet. A Valediction: Of Weeping (l. 10-18). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Ker...
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''Batter my heart, three-personed God;''
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John Donne (1572-1631), British poet. Batter my heart three-personed God (Holy Sonnets). . .
The Complete English Poems [John Donne]. A. J. Smith,...
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''Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I
Except you enthral me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.''
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John Donne (1572-1631), British poet. Batter my heart three-personed God (Holy Sonnets). . .
The Complete English Poems [John Donne]. A. J. Smith,...
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Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.
Contemplative and bookish men must of necessitie be more quarrelsome than others, bec...
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John Donne (c. 1572-1631), British divine, metaphysical poet, Robin Moore, and Yvonne Dunleavy. repr. In Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. John ...
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Whensoever any affliction assails me, me thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath ...
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John Donne (c. 1572-1631), British divine, metaphysical poet. repr. In Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. John Hayward (1929). Biathanatos, prefa...
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Whensoever any affliction assails me, mee thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath...
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John Donne (c. 1572-1631), British divine, metaphysical poet. repr. In Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. John Hayward (1929). Biathanatos, prefa...
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''Stay, O sweet, and do not rise;
The light that shines comes from thine eyes;
The day breaks not, it is my heart,
Because that you and I must part.''
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John Donne (1572-1631), British poet. Attributed to John Donne. Break of Day (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete English Poems [John Donne]. A. J. Smith, e...
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The reasons why I did not foreacquaint you with it (to deal with the same plainness that I have used) were these. I knew my present estate less than fit for her, I knew (yet I know not why) that I sto...
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John Donne (c. 1572-1631), British divine, metaphysical poet. Letter, February 2, 1602, to Sir George More. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. Jo...
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightfull conversation, but as moales for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that ...
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John Donne (c. 1572-1631), British divine, metaphysical poet. letter, Sept. 1608. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. John Hayward (1929).
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''To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.''
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John Donne (c. 1572-1631), British divine, metaphysical poet. letter, Sept. 1608, to Sir Henry Goodyer. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. John H...
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