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...
poetry saying whining
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
faith left reason
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
bank pillow pregnant rest sat
Where, like a pillow on a bed, / A pregnant bank swelled up, to rest / The violet's reclining head, / Sat we two, one another's best.
shall thou thy work
Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
declining sharp
Where can we find two better hemispheres/ Without sharp North, without declining West?
bracelet bright hair
A bracelet of bright hair about the bone.
cause constant exercise god hath seem therefore
There is nothing which God hath established in a constant cause of nature, and which therefore is done everyday, but would seem a miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
bell send thee therefore whom
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
faith fears god hears sees
As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
fears god sees
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else
love thou whom
O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.
broke dear dream happy less strong thee theme therefore thou
Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For reason, much too strong for fantasy, / Therefore thou waked'st me wisely; yet / My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.
eyes pictures
Pictures in our eyes to get / Was all our propagation.
atheist felt love rebel though worst
Rebel and Atheist too, why murmur I, / As though I felt the worst that love could do?