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...
life sleep men
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
waste goodness greediness
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.
god gnats worms
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
past punishment faults
Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.
christian jesus men
Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.
moving men soul
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
friends
Friends are ourselves.
doe fleas morality
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
heavenly dies
I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
pride two
As soon as there was two there was pride.
thinking poor true-you
Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.
decay our-love destruction
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...
book desire should
He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.
love running yesterday
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.