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...John Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, notable for their realistic and sensual style, include sonnets, love poetry, religious po...

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Religion, Poetry

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...volunteers bring you seven different readings of the short poem Song by John Donne, a weekly poetry project. Song is a bitter little poem on the falsity of women: search the world for ages, see mythical wonders, but you’ll not find a true woman. Deep hurt is the bane of the loving heart. (Summary...

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Poetry

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Excerpt: THE GOOD-MORROW; I WONDER by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov?d? were we not wean?d till then? But suck?d on countrey pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den? T?was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desir?d, and got, t?was but a dreame of thee. And now good morrow to our waking soules, Which watch not one another out of feare; For love, all love of other sights controules, And makes one little roome, an every where. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne, Let us possesse one world, each hath one, and is one. My face is thine eye, thine in mine appeares, And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, Where can we finde two better hemispheares Without sharpe North, without declining West? What ever dyes, was not mixt equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die....

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Table of Contents: THE GOOD-MORROW, 1 -- SONG, 2 -- WOMANS CONSTANCY, 3 -- THE UNDERTAKING, 4 -- THE SUNNE RISING, 5 -- THE INDIFFERENT, 6 -- LOVES USURY, 7 -- THE CANONIZATION, 8 -- THE TRIPLE FOOLE, 10 -- LOVERS INFINITENESSE, 11 -- SONG, 12 -- THE LEGACIE, 13 -- A FEAVER, 14 -- AIRE AND ANGELLS, 15 -- BREAKE OF DAY, 16 -- THE ANNIVERSARIE, 17 -- A VALEDICTION: OF MY NAME, IN THE WINDOW, 18 -- TWICKNAM GARDEN, 20 -- A VALEDICTION: OF THE BOOKE, 21 -- COMMUNITIE, 23 -- LOVES GROWTH, 24 -- LOVES EXCHANGE, 25 -- CONFINED LOVE, 27 -- THE DREAME, 28 -- A VALEDICTION: OF WEEPING, 29 -- LOVES ALCHYMIE, 30 -- THE FLEA, 31 -- THE CURSE, 32 -- THE MESSAGE, 33 -- A NOCTURNALL UPON S. LUCIES DAY, 34 -- WITCHCRAFT BY A PICTURE, 36 -- THE BAITE, 37 -- THE APPARITION, 38 -- THE BROKEN HEART, 39 -- A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING, 40 -- THE EXTASIE, 41 -- LOVES DEITIE, 43 -- LOVES DIET, 44 -- THE WILL, 45 -- THE FUNERALL, 47 -- THE BLOSSOME, 48 -- THE PRIMROSE, 49 -- THE RELIQUE, 50...

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...Songs and Sonnets by John Donne a 1631 DjVu Editions E-book, ' 2001, Global Language Resources, In... ... a 1631 DjVu Editions E-book, ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...631 DjVu Editions E-book, ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die. - 1 - THE GOOD-MORROW John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" SONG GOE, and catche a falling starre, ... ...so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die. - 1 - THE GOOD-MORROW John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" SONG GOE, and catche a falling starre, Ge... ... Will bee False, ere I come, to two, or three. - 2 - SONG John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" WOMANS CONSTANCY NOW thou hast lov’d me o... ... Will bee False, ere I come, to two, or three. - 2 - SONG John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" WOMANS CONSTANCY NOW thou hast lov’d me one wh... ...ne to doe, For by to morrow, I may thinke so too. - 3 - WOMANS CONSTANCY John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" THE UNDERTAKING I HAVE done one braver th... ... doe, For by to morrow, I may thinke so too. - 3 - WOMANS CONSTANCY John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" THE UNDERTAKING I HAVE done one braver thing ...

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Excerpt: JEALOSIE; FOND woman, which would?st have thy husband die, And yet complain?st of his great jealosie; If swolne with poyson, hee Jay in?his last bed, His body with a sere-barke covered, Drawing his breath, as thick and short, as can The nimblest crocheting Musitian, Ready with loathsome vomiting to spue His Soule out of one hell, into a new, Made deafe with his poore kindreds howling cries, Begging with few feign?d teares, great legacies, Thou would?st not weepe, but jolly,?and frolicke bee, As a slave, which to morrow should be free; Yet weep?st thou, when thou seest him hungerly Swallow his owne death, hearts-bane jealousies O give him many thanks, he?is courteous, That in suspecting kindly warneth us. Wee must not, as wee us?d, flout openly, In scoffing ridles, his deformitie; Nor at his boord together being satt, With words, nor touch, scarce lookes adulterate. Nor when he swolne, and pamper?d with great fare Sits downe, and snorts, cag?d in his basket chaire, Must wee usurpe his owne bed any more, Nor kisse and play in his house, as before. Now I see many dangers; for that is His realme, his castle, and his diocesse. B...

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Table of Contents: JEALOSIE, 1 -- THE ANAGRAM, 2 -- CHANGE, 4 -- THE PERFUME, 5 -- HIS PICTURE, 7 -- OH, LET MEE NOT SERVE, 8 -- NATURES LAY IDEOT, 10 -- THE COMPARISON, 11 -- THE AUTUMNALL, 13 -- THE DREAME, 15 -- THE BRACELET, 16 -- HIS PARTING FROM HER, 19 -- JULIA, 22 -- A TALE OF A CITIZEN AND HIS WIFE, 23 -- THE EXPOSTULATION, 25 -- ON HIS MISTRIS, 27 -- VARIETY, 29 -- LOVES PROGRESS, 31 -- TO HIS MISTRIS GOING TO BED, 34 -- LOVES WARR, 36...

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... a 1631 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. John Donne: Elegies Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...631 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. John Donne: Elegies Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ... ...right side Do Londons Major; or Germans, the Popes pride. - 1 - JEALOSIE John Donne: Elegies THE ANAGRAM MARRY, and love thy Flavia, for, she ... ... side Do Londons Major; or Germans, the Popes pride. - 1 - JEALOSIE John Donne: Elegies THE ANAGRAM MARRY, and love thy Flavia, for, she Hath ... ...ne, That durty foulenesse guards, and armes the towne: - 2 - THE ANAGRAM John Donne: Elegies So doth her face guard her; and so, for thee, Whic... ... That durty foulenesse guards, and armes the towne: - 2 - THE ANAGRAM John Donne: Elegies So doth her face guard her; and so, for thee, Which, fo... ...t were, 55 For, things in fashion every man will weare. - 3 - THE ANAGRAM John Donne: Elegies CHANGE ALTHOUGH thy hand and faith, and good workes ... ...e, 55 For, things in fashion every man will weare. - 3 - THE ANAGRAM John Donne: Elegies CHANGE ALTHOUGH thy hand and faith, and good workes too, ... ...’is the nursery 35 Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity. - 4 - CHANGE John Donne: Elegies THE PERFUME ONCE, and but once found in thy company, Al...

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Excerpt: Holy Sonnets; I THOU hast made me, And shall thy worke decay? Repaire me now, for now mine end doth haste, I runne to death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday; I dare not move my dimme eyes any way, Despaire behind, and death before doth cast Such terrour, and my feeble flesh doth waste By sinne in it, which it t?wards hell doth weigh; Onely thou art above, and when towards thee By thy leave I can looke, I rise againe; But our old subtle foe so tempteth me, That not one houre my selfe I can sustaine; Thy Grace may wing me to prevent his art, And thou like Adamant draw mine iron heart....

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Table of Contents: Holy Sonnets, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 1 -- III, 2 -- IV, 2 -- V, 2 -- VI, 3 -- VII, 3 -- VIII, 3 -- IX, 4 -- X, 4 -- XI, 4 -- XII, 5 -- XIII, 5 -- XIV, 6 -- XV, 6 -- XVI, 6 -- XVII, 7 -- XVIII, 7 -- XIX, 7 -- THE CROSSE, 9 -- RESURRECTION, IMPERFECT, 11 -- UPON THE ANNUNTIATION AND PASSION, 12 -- GOOD FRIDAY, 1613. RIDING WESTWARD, 14 -- THE LITANIE, 15 -- UPON THE TPANSLATION OF THE PSALME, 22 -- TO MR. TILMAN AFTER HE HAD TAKEN ORDERS, 24 -- A HYMNE TO CHRIST, 26 -- THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMY, 27 -- HYMNE TO GOD MY GOD, IN MY SICKNESSE, 38 -- A HYMNE TO GOD THE FATHER, 39...

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... a 1631 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. John Donne: Holy Sonnets Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...631 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. John Donne: Holy Sonnets Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...chuse me, And Satan hates mee, yet is loth to lose mee. - 1 - Holy Sonnets John Donne: Holy Sonnets III O MIGHT those sighes and teares returne ag... ... me, And Satan hates mee, yet is loth to lose mee. - 1 - Holy Sonnets John Donne: Holy Sonnets III O MIGHT those sighes and teares returne againe ... ...eretofore, And made it fouler; Let their flames retire, - 2 - Holy Sonnets John Donne: Holy Sonnets And burne me ô Lord, with a fiery zeale Of the... ...fore, And made it fouler; Let their flames retire, - 2 - Holy Sonnets John Donne: Holy Sonnets And burne me ô Lord, with a fiery zeale Of thee and... ... be try’d? They see idolatrous lovers weepe and mourne, - 3 - Holy Sonnets John Donne: Holy Sonnets And vile blasphemous Conjurers to call On Jesu... ...ry’d? They see idolatrous lovers weepe and mourne, - 3 - Holy Sonnets John Donne: Holy Sonnets And vile blasphemous Conjurers to call On Jesus nam... ...atisfied My sinnes, which passe the Jewes impiety: - 4 - Holy Sonnets John Donne: Holy Sonnets They kill’d once an inglorious man, but I Crucifie ...

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volunteers bring you 6 recordings of A Nocturnall Upon St. Lucies Day by John Donne. This was the fortnightly poetry project for winter solstice 2008.

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...Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. (Donne does not clearly identify the disease in his text.) The work consi...

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...t execution upon himselfe; to assist the sickness to antidate the sickness to make the sicknes the more irremediable, by sad apprehensions, and as if JOHN DONNE he would make a fire the more vehement, by sprinkling water upon the coales, so to wrap a hote fever in cold Melancholy, least the fever alone should not destroy fast enough, without this contribution, nor perfit t...

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Table of Contents: I., 1 -- II., 3 -- III., 4 -- IV., 6 -- V., 8 -- VI., 10 -- VII., 11 -- VIII., 13 -- IX., 15 -- X., 17 -- XI., 19 -- XII., 21 -- XIII., 23 -- XIV., 25 -- XV., 27 -- XVI., 29 -- XVII., 31 -- XVIII., 33 -- XIX., 35 -- XX., 37 -- XXI., 39 -- XXII., 41 -- XXIII., 43...

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...Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions JOHN DONNE 1624 Contents I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions JOHN DONNE 1624 Contents I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...make the sicknes the more irremediable, by sad apprehensions, and as if 2 JOHN DONNE he would make a fire the more vehement, by sprinkling water upon ... ...the sicknes the more irremediable, by sad apprehensions, and as if 2 JOHN DONNE he would make a fire the more vehement, by sprinkling water upon the c... ...bution of Mankind, where one halfe lackes meat, and the other stomacke. 4 JOHN DONNE III. Decubitus sequitur tandem. The Patient takes his bed. W EE ... ...n of Mankind, where one halfe lackes meat, and the other stomacke. 4 JOHN DONNE III. Decubitus sequitur tandem. The Patient takes his bed. W EE attri... ..., by lying still, and not practise my Resurrection, by rising any more. 6 JOHN DONNE IV . Medicusque vocatur. The Phisician is sent for. I T is too l... ...lying still, and not practise my Resurrection, by rising any more. 6 JOHN DONNE IV . Medicusque vocatur. The Phisician is sent for. I T is too little... ...s not; hee hath them at home, but hee must send for the Phisician. 8 JOHN DONNE V . Solus adest. The Phisician comes. A S Sicknes is the greatest mis...

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Excerpt: TO THE READER [Preface; to the Ist edition () by Richard Redmer, the publisher.]; This Sermon was, by Sacred Authoritie, stiled the Authors owne funeral Sermon. Most fitly: whether wee respect the time, or the matter. It was preached not many dayes before his death; as if, having done this, there remained nothing for him to doe, but to die: And the matter is, of Death; the occasion and subject of all funerall Sermons. It hath beene observed of this Reverent Man, That his Faculty in Preaching continually encreased: and, That as hee exceeded others at first; so, at last hee exceeded himselfe. This is his last Sermon; I will not say, it is therefore his best; because, all his were excellent. Yet thus much: A dying Mans words, if they concerne our selves, doe usually make the deepest impression, as being spoken most feelingly, and with least affectation. Now, whom doth it not concerne to learn, both the danger, and benefit of death? Death is every man?s enemy, and intends hurt to all; though to many, hee be occasion of greatest goods. This enemy wee must all combate dying; whom hee living did almost conquer; having discovered t...

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Table of Contents: DEATH?S DUEL, 1 -- TO THE READER, 1 -- DEATH?S DUEL, 2

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...NE 1630 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. John Donne - The Last Sermon Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...630 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. John Donne - The Last Sermon Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...ble; nor life tedious, how long soever it shall last. R. - 1 - DEATH’S DUEL John Donne - The Last Sermon DEATH’S DUEL PSALME 68. VERS. 20. In f... ...nor life tedious, how long soever it shall last. R. - 1 - DEATH’S DUEL John Donne - The Last Sermon DEATH’S DUEL PSALME 68. VERS. 20. In finè. ... ... exitus à morte, an issue from death, for in our mothers - 2 - DEATH’S DUEL John Donne - The Last Sermon wombe wee are dead so, as that wee doe no... ...us à morte, an issue from death, for in our mothers - 2 - DEATH’S DUEL John Donne - The Last Sermon wombe wee are dead so, as that wee doe not kno... ..., (he hath shed no blood for Christ) yet hee may have a - 3 - DEATH’S DUEL John Donne - The Last Sermon Confessors, he hath bene ready to glorifie... ... hath shed no blood for Christ) yet hee may have a - 3 - DEATH’S DUEL John Donne - The Last Sermon Confessors, he hath bene ready to glorifie God... ... (for of spirituall death wee speake not now) It is - 4 - DEATH’S DUEL John Donne - The Last Sermon not. Though this be exitus a morte, It is intr...

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volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Burnt Ship by John Donne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 17th, 2010.

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...John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love against the wishes of his influential father-in-law; Donne's career was cast into shadow...

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...This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remember military men and women who had lost their lives in war. Kings and presidents come and go and some of the reasons that wars have come about are now lost from me...

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This version of the Songs and Sonnets follows the 1635 edition, excluding only a single poem ‘Deare love, continue nice and chaste’.

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The Flea The Good-Morrow Song Woman’s Constancy The Undertaking The Sun Rising The Indifferent Love’s Usury The Canonization The Triple Fool Lover’s Infiniteness Song The Legacy A Fever Air and Angels Break of Day Another of the Same The Anniversary A Valediction of My Name, in the Window Twickenham Garden Valediction to his Book Community Love’s Growth Love’s Exchange Confined Love The Dream A Valediction of Weeping Love’s Alchemy The Curse The Message A Nocturnal upon St Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day Witchcraft by a Picture The Bait The Apparition The Broken Heart A Valediction Forbidding Mourning The Ecstasy Love’s Deity Love’s Diet The Will The Funeral The Blossom The Primrose The Relic The Damp The Dissolution A Jet Ring Sent Negative Love The Prohibition The Expiration The Computation The Paradox Song Farewell to Love A Lecture upon the Shadow...

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...A complete and unabridged e-edition of the collected verse of John Donne. Donne, 1572–1631, was born in London, England, and, as evidenced by the verse collected here, is one of the great English language poets and thinkers in modern history illuminating the human condition through a ve...

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"Batter my heart, three person’d God..." Batter my heart, three person’d God; for, you As yet but knock, breath, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’rthrow me,’and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurpt Town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but oh, to no end. Reason your Viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captiv’d, and proves weak or untrue, Yet dearly’I love you and would be lov’d fain, But am betroth’d unto your enemy, Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for I Except you’enthral me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me....

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Contents Introduction SONGS AND SONNETS The Flea The Good-Morrow Song ("Goe, and catch a falling starre...") Woman's Constancy The Undertaking The Sun Rising The Indifferent Love's Usury Canonization The Triple Fool Lovers' Infiniteness Song ("Sweetest Love, I doe not goe...") The Legacy A Feaver Air and Angels Breake of Day The Anniversary A Valediction of My Name, in the Window Twicknam Garden Valediction to His Book Community Love's Growth Love's Exchange Confined Love The Dream A Valediction of Weeping Love's Alchymy The Curse The Message A Nocturnal upon St. Lucie's Day Being the Shortest Day Witchcraft by a Picture The Bait The Apparition The Broken Heart A Valediction Forbidding Mourning The Extasie Love's Deity Love's Diet The Will The Funeral The Blossom The Primrose, Being at Mountgomery Castle upon the Hill, on Which It Is Situate The Relique The Damp The Dissolution A Jeat Ring Sent Negative Love The Prohibition The Expiration The Computation The Paradox Farewell to Love A Lecture upon the Shadow EPIGRAMS Epigrams ELEGIES Elegie I Elegie II Elegie III El...