Literature
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Lovers’ Infiniteness by John Donne
IF yet I have not all thy love,Dear, I shall never have it all;I cannot breathe one other sigh, to…
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Love’s Alchemy by John Donne
Some that have deeper digg’d love’s mine than I,Say, where his centric happiness doth lie.I have loved, and got, and…
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Love’s Deity by John Donne
I LONG to talk with some old lover’s ghost,Who died before the god of love was born.I cannot think that…
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Love’s Diet by John Donne
TO what a cumbersome unwieldinessAnd burdenous corpulence my love had grown,But that I did, to make it less,And keep it…
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Love’s Exchange by John Donne
LOVE, any devil else but youWould for a given soul give something too.At court your fellows every dayGive th’ art…
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Love’s Growth by John Donne
I SCARCE believe my love to be so pureAs I had thought it was,Because it doth endureVicissitude, and season, as…
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Love’s Usury by John Donne
FOR every hour that thou wilt spare me now,I will allow,Usurious god of love, twenty to thee,When with my brown…
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Negative Love by John Donne
I NEVER stoop’d so low, as theyWhich on an eye, cheek, lip, can prey;Seldom to them which soar no higherThan…
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Self-Love by John Donne
HE that cannot choose but love,And strives against it still,Never shall my fancy move,For he loves against his will;Nor he…
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Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star by John Donne
Donne’s metaphysical poem seems like a light-hearted witty joke aimed at women, but there are spiritual metaphors which substantiate Donne’s…
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