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...
current except money nature nearer treasure
Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it.
declining sharp
Where can we find two better hemispheres/ Without sharp North, without declining West?
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.
bell send thee therefore whom
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
died god love talk
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, / Who died before the god of love was born.
god neglect noise rattling whining
I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
alike loves none thou
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.
mine
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am mine own Executioner.
mine
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.
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
book drawn extended high poems school since time written
The book has been kind of a long time in coming. I've been writing since high school and this is my first book and it's kind of drawn from poems written over an extended period.
best deaths die fitter hope love nor since sweetest thus weariness
Sweetest love, I do not go, / For weariness of thee, / Nor in hope the world can show / A fitter Love for me; / But since that I / Must die at last, 'tis best / To use myself in jest, / Thus by feigned deaths to die.
cooperation entire island man piece
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.