Literature
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A Lecture Upon the Shadow by John Donne
STAND still, and I will read to theeA lecture, Love, in Love’s philosophy.These three hours that we have spent,Walking here,…
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A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day by John Donne
‘TIS the year’s midnight, and itis the day’s,Lucy’s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks;The sun is spent, and now his…
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
John Donne taunts us with wild and plentiful metaphors in his best known metaphysical poem (1611), often studied in grades…
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A Valediction: Of My Name, in the Window by John Donne
I. MY name engraved hereinDoth contribute my firmness to this glass,Which ever since that charm hath beenAs hard, as that…
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A Valediction: Of Weeping by John Donne
LET me pour forthMy tears before thy face, whilst I stay here,For thy face coins them, and thy stamp they…
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Break of Day by John Donne
‘TIS true, ‘tis day ; what though it be?O, wilt thou therefore rise from me?Why should we rise because ‘tis…
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Community by John Donne
Good we must love, and must hate ill,For ill is ill, and good good still;But there are things indifferent,Which we…
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Confined Love by John Donne
Some man unworthy to be possessorOf old or new love, himself being false or weak,Thought his pain and shame would…
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Death be not Proud by John Donne
Death be not proud, though some have callèd theeMighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,For, those, whom thou think’st,…
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Farewell to Love by John Donne
WHILST yet to proveI thought there was some deity in love,So did I reverence, and gaveWorship; as atheists at their…
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