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... better now judge of the then present condition of his mind and fortune , I shall present you with an extract , collected out of some few of his many letters . -------- " And the reason why I did not send an " answer to your last week's ...
... better now judge of the then present condition of his mind and fortune , I shall present you with an extract , collected out of some few of his many letters . -------- " And the reason why I did not send an " answer to your last week's ...
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... better ; my strength diminisheth , and my load grows hea- " vier ; and yet I would fain be or do something ; but " that I cannot tell what is no wonder in this time of " my sadness ; for to chuse is to do , but to be no part of " my ...
... better ; my strength diminisheth , and my load grows hea- " vier ; and yet I would fain be or do something ; but " that I cannot tell what is no wonder in this time of " my sadness ; for to chuse is to do , but to be no part of " my ...
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... better satisfied with an answer " than he hath now made me ; and I always rejoice " when I think that by my means he became a di- " vine . " 66 He was made Dean the fiftieth year of his age , and in his fifty - fourth year a dangerous ...
... better satisfied with an answer " than he hath now made me ; and I always rejoice " when I think that by my means he became a di- " vine . " 66 He was made Dean the fiftieth year of his age , and in his fifty - fourth year a dangerous ...
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... better leisure to write than you to read , " yet I would not willingly oppress you with too much " letter . God bless you and your son , as I wish . " Your poor friend and servant in Christ Jesus , 66 " J. DONNE . " Before that month ...
... better leisure to write than you to read , " yet I would not willingly oppress you with too much " letter . God bless you and your son , as I wish . " Your poor friend and servant in Christ Jesus , 66 " J. DONNE . " Before that month ...
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... care : ' Twas well and pious ; and for ever may He live : yet I shew thee a better way ; Print but his sermons , and if those we buy , He , we , and thou , shall live to eternity . TO JOHN DONNE . DONNE ! the delight of Phoebus.
... care : ' Twas well and pious ; and for ever may He live : yet I shew thee a better way ; Print but his sermons , and if those we buy , He , we , and thou , shall live to eternity . TO JOHN DONNE . DONNE ! the delight of Phoebus.
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Page 10 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 136 - Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Page 9 - As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say 'The breath goes now,' and some say 'No'; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears, Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence, because...
Page 160 - For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout; With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his Honour, or his Grace, Or the King's real, or his stamped face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love.
Page 11 - And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation. As 'twixt two equal armies Fate Suspends uncertain victory, Our souls — which to advance their state Were gone out — hung 'twixt her and me. And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral statues lay; All day the same our postures were, And we said nothing, all the day.
Page 157 - In that the world's contracted thus; Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.
Page 87 - Christ's Cross, and Adam's tree, stood in one place; Look Lord, and find both Adams met in me; As the first Adam's sweat surrounds my face, May the last Adam's blood my soul embrace. So, in His purple wrapp'd receive me Lord, By these His thorns give me His other Crown; And as to others...
Page 153 - SONG Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot; Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.
Page 152 - Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown; Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest, Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without declining west?
Page 20 - THE FUNERAL WHOEVER comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair about mine arm; The mystery, the sign, you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that which, unto heav'n being gone, Will leave this to control And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.