John Donne
John Donne
John Donnewas an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations...
autumn heaven
In heaven it is always autumn.
political equal
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
prayer memories eye
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.
teamwork men grieving
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
beauty summer spring
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
pain sleep office
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill
fall power men
O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
angel stones fairy
God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
dream joy ifs
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
sleep past dies
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
lying men soul
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.
kissing break-off two
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
life swear fairs
And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
life joy nursery
. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.