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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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Satire IV

... "   He, like to a high-stretch'd lute-string, squeak'd, "O sir, ...

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Lovers' Infiniteness

... And all my treasure, which should purchase thee&mdash ...

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Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners

... Despair, law, chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes ...

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Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree

... That thou remember them, some claim as debt ...

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Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene

... Then, as my soul to'heaven, her first seat, takes flight, ...

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The Calm

... Earth's hollownesses, which the world's lungs are, ...

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The Character Of The Bore

...   His clothes were strange, though coarse, and black, though bare ...

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Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward

... And tune all spheares at once peirc'd with those holes ...

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Epithalamion Made At Lincoln's Inn

...   Put forth, put forth, that warm balm-breathing thigh, ...

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Elegy VII: Nature’s lay idiot, I taught thee to love

... s force And leave him then, being made a ready horse ...

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Break of Day (another of the same)

... Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither ...

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A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day

... All others, from all things, draw all that's good, ...

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A Lecture upon the Shadow

...  And to brave clearness all things are reduc'd ...

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Elegy XVIII

... Where their fair-spreading streams run wide and clear ...

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Song: Sweetest love, I do not go

... When thou sigh'st, thou sigh'st not wind, ...