Literature
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Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam by Ernest Dowson
Vita Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam (translation: “They are not long, the weeping and the laughter”) (1896) is…
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A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne
Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,Which is my sin, though it were done before?Wilt thou forgive that sin…
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Air and Angels by John Donne
TWICE or thrice had I loved thee,Before I knew thy face or name;So in a voice, so in a shapeless…
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A Jet Ring Sent by John Donne
THOU art not so black as my heart,Nor half so brittle as her heart, thou art;What would’st thou say? shall…
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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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