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...
cat men lions
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
war justice age
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
elephants masterpiece great-things
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
joy serenity heaven
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
god angel doors
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
integrity sleep night
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
love-is two ifs
...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.
love-is sin let-me
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
death art thinking
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.
men disability old-man
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
bling ugly levels
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
book reading lovers
I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.
death sheets intricate
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
christian anger sun
The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.