The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts
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- Preface试读
- TORONTO AND MELBOURNE
- SONGS AND SONETS
- EPITHALAMIONS, OR MARRIAGE SONGS
- LETTERS TO SEVERALL PERSONAGES
- M. H. Mad paper stay
- DEATHS OF SUNDRY PERSONAGES
- DIVINE POEMS
- APPENDIX B
- APPENDIX C
- Preface
- 25 Yet shee
- 2 Worthies
- 10 Will no other vice content you?
- 25 Which thinke to stablish dangerous constancie.
- 10 And at next nine
- 45 A patterne of your love!
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- 20 Nor a lost houre recall!
- 20 To fuell such a feaver long.
- 25 So thy love may be my loves spheare;
- 30 To write threescore: this is the second of our raigne.
- 10 And cleare reflects thee to thine eye.
- 60 And unaware to mee shalt write.
- 50 In both they doe excell
- 15 And to all eyes it selfe betrayes:
- I SCARCE beleeve my love to be so pure
- 20 From loves awakened root do bud out now.
- 10 I do not sue from thee to draw
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- 10 On a round ball
- 13 All
- 15 And cloysterd in these living walls of Jet.
- 20 Art in anguish
- 10 If once into loves hands it come!
- 70 Weake men on love reveal'd may looke;
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- 15 But every moderne god will now extend
- 30 To Schoolemen I bequeath my doubtfulnesse;
- 30 Know thee for one?
- 25 Ten is the farthest number; if halfe ten
- 15 But that my fire doth with my fuell grow.
- 10 Or too much triumph in the Victorie.
- 10 And a just office on a murderer doe.
- 25 Diminisheth the length of life a day)
- 15 We shall new shadowes make the other way.
- Preface
- 10 For such by all are sought;
- 1 Martiall
- 25 Now I see many dangers; for that is
- 25 All love is wonder; if wee justly doe
- 35 Then are they purest; Change'is the nursery
- 60 By drawing in a leprous harlots breath;
- 10 And powders blew staines scatter'd on my skinne;
- 35 Yet let not thy deepe bitternesse beget
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- 25 Thy graces and good words my creatures bee;
- 40 Or like hot liquid metalls newly runne
- 15 Yet lies not Love
- 45 I hate extreames; yet I had rather stay
- 43 Deaths-heads
- 20 Then if more
- 20 And punisht for offences not their owne?
- 60 That with phantastique scheames fils full much paper;
- 75 And they are still bad angels; Mine are none;
- 90 May your few fellowes longer with me stay.
- 42 Belgia.
- 35 Was't not enough that thou didst dart thy fires
- 15 This she
- 30 Throng in her bosome for creation.
- 45 Our onely City trades of hope now are
- 35 In ... now
- 70 For though'tis got by
- 30 A blushing womanly discovering grace;
- 20 Him not humane that would turn back from her:
- 55 And doth prescribe manners and laws to nations.
- 80 Nor to the art of severall eyes obeying;
- 40 How much they erre; that set out at the face?
- 65 And Sailing towards her
- 90 Then if at beauties elements he stay.
- 35 To taste whole joyes. Gems which you women use
- 20 To dust and ashes turn'd before my time.
- 45 To make at home; And shall not I do then
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- 35 Thy body is a naturall
- 40 Ends of much wonder; And be Thou those ends.
- 75 So nicely about the Bride;
- 60 Seest thou all good because thou seest no harme?
- 95 Of his owne thoughts; I would not therefore stay
- 40 Then may thy leane and hunger-starved wombe
- 75 A pleasing sacrifice; now dispossesse
- 90 The priest comes on his knees t'embowell her;
- 10 Giddie fantastique Poëts of each land.
- 35 As though all thy companions should make thee
- 70 Sells for a little state his libertie;
- 20 Pistolets are the best Artillerie.
- 60 Then when winds in our ruin'd Abbeyes rore.
- 90 Are Fathers of the Church for writing lesse.
- 30 To thy foes and his (who made thee to stand
- 70 Now; Aretines pictures have made few chast;
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- 75 With which she scracheth Suiters; In bodies
- 85 Enough to cloath all the great Carricks Pepper.
- 20 To be farre greater then the Mother-nose?
- 35 This magnifies thy leaves; but if they stoope
- 1 I meane
- 10 Sad that her sonnes did seeke a forraine grave
- 25 And on the hatches as on Altars lyes
- 40 Or to disuse mee from the queasie paine
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- 30 Each elements qualities were in the'other three;
- 55 Sinke like a lead without a line: but as
- 10 And shall not better; her next change is night:
- 30 Such freedome doth a banishment become.
- 15 Like Indians'gainst Spanish hosts they bee.
- 27 At Court;
- 35 Make your returne home gracious; and bestow
- 20 And falsifies both computations so;
- 35 In all Religions as much care hath bin
- 66 As strange attire aliens the men wee know.
- 50 Your friends finde every day a mart of new.
- 45 We till with them; and them to heav'n wee raise;
- 80 Quenching compassion of our wrechednesse.
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- 15 As spice doth bodies from corrupt aires touch.
- 60 Ioy
- M AN to Gods image;
- 15 Do thou so too: and fill not like a Bee
- 30 Some thing to answere in some proportion
- 10 The re sacrifice it to that beauteous Sun:
- 25 But'tis an easier load (though both oppresse)
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- 20 Her creature; glorify'd more then before.
- 50 Nor to make my selfe her familiar;
- 30 Through which all things within without were shown.
- 20 And make your minds sincere complexion blush.
- 40 Shee therefore wrought upon that part of you
- 75 The first whom we in His tories doe finde
- 20 For the bold pride of vulgar pens to touch;
- 35 So these high songs that to thee suited bin
- 40 Measures of times are all determined)
- 60 What wee may gaine by thy Anatomy.
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- 60 Because it need disguise no thought within.
- 95 Her modestie not suffering her to bee
- 10 It clogged is) can follow thee halfe way;
- 35 Still upward mount; and let thy Makers praise
- THE PROGRESSE
- 75 Shee that first tried indifferent desires
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- 30 Met a
- 70 The onely subject reason wrought upon.
- I HAVE learn'd by those lawes wherein
- 90 Which he successively to order brings;
- 30 If carnall Death (the yonger brother) doe
- 45 Soe much did zeale her conscience rarefie
- 20 A tenth ranke in the heavenly hierarchie.
- 40 But thou hast both of Captaine mist and fort.
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- 35 Her soule was Paradise; the Cherubin
- 58 All the MSS. omit
- 15 With whom more Venturers more boldly dare
- 20 What a soule was; All former comelinesse
- 10 In my graves inside see what thou art now:
- 10 Our soules become wormeaten carkases;
- 15 And wilt anon in thy loose-rein'd careere
- 90 And wee (for treason taints the blood) thence die and sweat.
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- 10 But oh it must be burnt! alas the fire
- 10 And vile blasphemous Conjurers to call
- 10 But am betroth'd unto your enemie:
- 10 Whether a man those statutes can fulfill;
- 10 Dost wooe my soule for hers; offring all thine:
- 10 First travaile we to seeke and then make Love?
- 55 And as the braine through bony walls doth vent
- 25 As by the selfe-fix'd Pole wee never doe
- 55 And let thy Patriarches Desire
- 85 Thou in thy scatter'd mystique body wouldst
- 45 For
- 15 The punishment.
- 40 Than Kings give dignities; to keepe heavens doore?
- 20 Doth drive her children to captivitie.
- 40 Into her holy Sanctuary goe.
- 75 Dead in the citie; for they sought for meat
- 95 To ground the strengths of
- 13 Daughter Ierusalem
- Preface
- 11 Iehova
- JOHN DONNE
- MY EVER DESIRED FRIEND
- 15 Late her great Patron; Whose Prerogative
- 35 O! had'st Thou in an Elegiacke Knell
- 15 And will so envie
- 40 Might fill againe the worlds
- 25 Did his youth scatter
- 45 Spake he all
- 35 No Druggist of the Soule bestow'd on all
- 80 No stronger then ones selfe can force away)
- 50 Is written onely for thy yonger dayes.
- 70 Till all Predestination be runne out.
- 30 Have sent their Pearles and Rubies from the deepe
- 50 Purges all drosse away) shall by a Quire
- 50 Let therefore these poore fellowes stand aside;
- 15 Desperare jubet. Verum hâc nolente coactos
- 35 Auditis: Nilusq́ue minus strepuisset: Arion
- 65 Et quo nos canimus? cur hæc tibi sacra? Poëtæ
- 90 Depositum interea lapides servate fideles.
- 10 Haec nova fata libra posse dedisse novo.
- 15 Serpens; fixa Cruci si sit Natura; Crucique
- 30 Most superficially: hee speaks of those
- 45 More honest than himself. Thus men may want
- 10 Then that whereof thou didst accuse her wench.
- 40 And in the end the good on't will be thine:
- 65 Charon did let me passe: I'le him requite.
- 32 Poem closes
- 20 Which ever yet hath beene a sinne.
- 10 For breach of word I knew but as a phrase.
- Preface
- 15 Ladies have boldly lov'd; bid her renew
- 30 That not too late shee grieve shee lov'd me not.
- 30 I hate that thing whispers it selfe away.
- 70 Shall freeze my Love to Christall in a night.
- 20 When her best soule inhabits it again.
- 30 Through fleshes misty vaile the beames divine.
- 20 And your groanes
- 20 That I can catch her
- 25 To tie us to that way?
- 25 I'll never dig in Quarry of an heart
- 15 Soe free from impure thoughts they shal be found.
- 30 Compar'd with you each would confesse some stayne.
- 10 O bridge which joynst togeather earth and heaven;
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- 20 To seeke his Love; whilst shee i'th North was seene.
- 10 I see or heare y
- I THAT y
- 10 Desert and hope are as but standers by:
- 40 O fooles
- L OE now hee shineth yonder
- 10 To make the powerfull God pearelesse appeare.
- 40 Rich harvest reapd in bloud and sowne in teares.
- 20 Infuse chast thoughts into my loving mind.
- 15 Mayst thou with the great Monarchs mournfull care
- 20 Yet I cherish
- 20 Then thou shouldst not flye us.
- 10 But such game Ile not desyre.
- 35 For a princely mate.
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- 20 That silly maides with slowe-moved fingers trye
- 60 Industrious Physicke pregnantly doth stand
- 80 Soe stands a Copie to these shapes on earthe.
- 10 That dide for suckinge of that milkie Sea.
- 50 The black mark would I hitt and not the white.
- 55 I that have trusted those that would have given
- 65 He that hath trusted and his hope appeares
- 90 And as some nations formerly did use
- 20 The Fox suspected whilst the Ass goes free;
- 45 Now the wing'd people of the Skie shall sing