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Born in January 22, 1572 / Died in March 31, 1631 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by John Donne

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Holy Sonnet XII: Why Are We By All Creatures Waited On?

... Whose whole kind you might swallow and feed upon ...

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The Dissolution

... A latter bullet may o'ertake, the powder being more ...

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Elegy VIII: The Comparison

... Like to the fatal ball which fell on Ide,Or that whereof God had such jealousy, ...

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Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God, As He Thee? Then Digest

... His stol'n stuff sold, must lose or buy 't again: ...

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Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified

... Then turn, O pensive soul, to God, for he knows best ...

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Elegy II: The Anagram

... She, whose face, like clouds, turns the day to night ...

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Holy Sonnet XVI: Father, Part Of His Double Interest

... This Lamb, whose death with life the world hath blest, ...

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Elegy VI

... Though hope bred faith and love: thus taught, I shall, ...

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Elegy VII

... Must I alas Frame and enamel plate, and drink in glass ...

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Love's Exchange

... Can call vow'd men from cloisters, dead from tombs, ...

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Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness

...   All straits, and none but straits, are ways to them, ...

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To Mr. Rowland Woodward

... for as Men force the sun with much more force to pass, ...

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To The Countess Of Bedford II

... That stones, worms, frogs, and snakes in man are seen ...

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To Sir Henry Wotton II

... “ At court,”—though “ from court” were the better style ...

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Elegy XIII: His Parting From Her

... Strike them, their house, their friends, their favourites all ...