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Metaphysical poems of love, wit, devotion, argument, and spiritual intensity.

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John Donne Poems

John Donne Poems collects public-domain English poems by John Donne, whose metaphysical wit, dramatic argument, erotic intelligence, and devotional force shaped English poetry.

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John Donne died in 1631, and John Donne Poems was first published in 1633. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English original-language edition.

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The Poems of John Donne

John Donne

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Songs and Sonets

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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 in 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.

Table of contents

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02Songs and Sonets
  3. 03The good-morrow
  4. 04Song
  5. 05Womans constancy
  6. 06The undertaking
  7. 07The Sunne Rising
  8. 08The Indifferent
  9. 09Loves Vsury
  10. 10The Canonization
  11. 11The triple Foole
  12. 12Lovers infinitenesse
  13. 13Song
  14. 14The Legacie
  15. 15A Feaver
  16. 16Aire and Angels
  17. 17Breake of day
  18. 18The Anniversarie
  19. 19A Valediction: of my name, in the window
  20. 20I.
  21. 21II.
  22. 22III.
  23. 23IIII.
  24. 24V.
  25. 25VI.
  26. 26VII.
  27. 27VIII.
  28. 28IX.
  29. 29X.
  30. 30XI.
  31. 31Twicknam garden
  32. 32A Valediction: of the booke
  33. 33Communitie
  34. 34Loves growth
  35. 35Loves exchange
  36. 36Confined Love
  37. 37The Dreame
  38. 38A Valediction: of weeping
  39. 39Loves Alchymie
  40. 40The Flea
  41. 41The Curse
  42. 42The Message
  43. 43A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day,
  44. 44Being the shortest day
  45. 45Witchcraft by a picture
  46. 46The Baite
  47. 47The Apparition
  48. 48The broken heart
  49. 49A Valediction: forbidding mourning
  50. 50The Extasie
  51. 51Loves Deitie
  52. 52Loves diet
  53. 53The Will
  54. 54The Funerall
  55. 55The Blossome
  56. 56The Relique
  57. 57The Dampe
  58. 58The Dissolution
  59. 59A Ieat Ring Sent
  60. 60Negative love
  61. 61The Prohibition
  62. 62To let mee live, O love and hate mee too
  63. 63The Expiration
  64. 64The Computation
  65. 65The Paradox
  66. 66Farewell to Love
  67. 67Sonnet. The Token
  68. 68The end of the Songs and Sonets
  69. 69Epigrams.
  70. 70Niobe
  71. 71A burnt ship
  72. 72Fall of a wall
  73. 73A lame begger
  74. 74Sir Iohn Wingefield
  75. 75A selfe accuser
  76. 76A licentious person
  77. 77Antiquary
  78. 78Disinherited
  79. 79Phryne
  80. 80An obscure writer
  81. 81Klockius
  82. 82Raderus
  83. 83Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
  84. 84Ralphius
  85. 85The Lier
  86. 86Elegies.
  87. 87Elegie I.
  88. 88Iealosie
  89. 89Elegie Ii.
  90. 90The Anagram
  91. 91Elegie Iii.
  92. 92Change
  93. 93Elegie Iv.
  94. 94The Perfume
  95. 95Elegie V.
  96. 96His Picture
  97. 97Elegie Vi.
  98. 98Elegie Vii.
  99. 99Elegie Viii.
  100. 100The Comparison
  101. 101Elegie Ix.
  102. 102The Autumnall
  103. 103Elegie X.
  104. 104The Dreame
  105. 105Elegie Xi.
  106. 106The Bracelet
  107. 107Elegie Xii.
  108. 108His parting from her
  109. 109Elegie Xiii.
  110. 110Iulia
  111. 111Elegie Xiv.
  112. 112A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife
  113. 113Elegie Xv.
  114. 114The Expostulation
  115. 115Elegie Xvi.
  116. 116On his Mistris
  117. 117Elegie Xvii.
  118. 118Variety
  119. 119Elegie Xviii.
  120. 120Loves Progress
  121. 121Elegie Xix.
  122. 122Going to Bed
  123. 123Elegie Xx.
  124. 124Loves Warre
  125. 125Heroicall Epistle.
  126. 126Epithalamions,
  127. 127OR
  128. 128Marriage Songs.
  129. 129I.
  130. 130II.
  131. 131III.
  132. 132IIII.
  133. 133V.
  134. 134VI.
  135. 135VII.
  136. 136VIII.
  137. 137Ecclogue.
  138. 138Allophanes
  139. 139Allophanes
  140. 140Idios
  141. 141Epithalamion.
  142. 142I.
  143. 143II.
  144. 144III.
  145. 145IIII.
  146. 146Raising of the Bride
  147. 147V.
  148. 148Her Apparrelling
  149. 149VI.
  150. 150Going to the Chappell
  151. 151VII.
  152. 152The Benediction
  153. 153VIII.
  154. 154Feasts and Revells
  155. 155IX.
  156. 156The Brides going to bed
  157. 157X.
  158. 158The Bridegroomes comming
  159. 159XI.
  160. 160The good-night
  161. 161Idios
  162. 162Allophanes
  163. 163Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne
  164. 164Satyres.
  165. 165Satyre I
  166. 166Satyre II
  167. 167Satyre III
  168. 168Satyr IIII
  169. 169Satyre V
  170. 170Vpon Mr. Thomas Coryats Crudities
  171. 171I. D
  172. 172In eundem Macaronicon
  173. 173Explicit Joannes Donne
  174. 174Letters
  175. 175To Severall Personages.
  176. 176Donne:
  177. 177H: W: in Hiber: belligeranti
  178. 178To the Countesse of Bedford
  179. 179Madame,
  180. 180To the Countesse of Bedford
  181. 181Madame,
  182. 182To the Countesse of Bedford
  183. 183On New-yeares day
  184. 184To the Countesse of Huntingdon
  185. 185Madame,
  186. 186To the Countesse of Bedford
  187. 187Begun in France but never perfected
  188. 188Desunt cætera
  189. 189Madame,
  190. 190To the Lady Bedford
  191. 191An Anatomie Of The World.
  192. 192The first Anniversary
  193. 193Of The Progresse Of The Soule.
  194. 194The Harbinger to the
  195. 195Progresse.
  196. 196Of The Progresse Of The Soule.
  197. 197The second Anniversarie
  198. 198Epicedes And Obseqvies
  199. 199Vpon
  200. 200Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry
  201. 201Madame,
  202. 202Elegie.
  203. 203Death
  204. 204Elegie on the L. C
  205. 205An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton
  206. 206To Sir Robert Carr
  207. 207Sir,
  208. 208I. D.
  209. 209Epitaphs.
  210. 210Epitaph On Himselfe.
  211. 211To the Countesse of Bedford
  212. 212Madame,
  213. 213Omnibus
  214. 214Infinitati Sacrum,
  215. 215Metempsychosis.
  216. 216Poêma Satyricon
  217. 217Epistle.
  218. 218First Song
  219. 219I.
  220. 220II.
  221. 221III.
  222. 222IV.
  223. 223V.
  224. 224VI.
  225. 225VII.
  226. 226VIII.
  227. 227IX.
  228. 228X.
  229. 229XI.
  230. 230XII.
  231. 231XIII.
  232. 232XIV.
  233. 233XV.
  234. 234XVI.
  235. 235XVII.
  236. 236XVIII.
  237. 237XIX.
  238. 238XX.
  239. 239XXI.
  240. 240XXII.
  241. 241XXIII.
  242. 242XXIV.
  243. 243XXV.
  244. 244XXVI.
  245. 245XXVII.
  246. 246XXVIII.
  247. 247XXIX.
  248. 248XXX.
  249. 249XXXI.
  250. 250XXXII.
  251. 251XXXIII.
  252. 252XXXIV.
  253. 253XXXV.
  254. 254XXXVI.
  255. 255XXXVII.
  256. 256XXXVIII.
  257. 257XXXIX.
  258. 258XL.
  259. 259XLI.
  260. 260XLII.
  261. 261XLIII.
  262. 262XLIV.
  263. 263XLV.
  264. 264XLVI.
  265. 265XLVII.
  266. 266XLVIII.
  267. 267XLIX.
  268. 268L.
  269. 269LI.
  270. 270LII.
  271. 271The end of the Progresse of the Soule
  272. 272Divine Poems.
  273. 273To the Lady Magdalen Herbert: of St. Mary Magdalen
  274. 274J.D.
  275. 275Holy Sonnets.
  276. 276La Corona
  277. 277Annvnciation.
  278. 278Nativitie.
  279. 279Temple.
  280. 280Crvcifying.
  281. 281Resvrrection.
  282. 282Ascention.
  283. 283Holy Sonnets
  284. 284I.
  285. 285II.
  286. 286III.
  287. 287IV.
  288. 288V.
  289. 289VI.
  290. 290VII.
  291. 291VIII.
  292. 292IX.
  293. 293X.
  294. 294XI.
  295. 295XII.
  296. 296XIII.
  297. 297XIV.
  298. 298XV.
  299. 299XVI.
  300. 300XVII.
  301. 301XVIII.
  302. 302XIX.
  303. 303The Crosse
  304. 304Resurrection, imperfect
  305. 305Desunt cætera
  306. 306The Annuntiation and Passion
  307. 307Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward
  308. 308I.
  309. 309II.
  310. 310III.
  311. 311IV.
  312. 312V.
  313. 313VI.
  314. 314The Angels
  315. 315VII.
  316. 316The Patriarches
  317. 317VIII.
  318. 318The Prophets
  319. 319IX.
  320. 320The Apostles
  321. 321X.
  322. 322The Martyrs
  323. 323XI.
  324. 324The Confessors
  325. 325XII.
  326. 326The Virgins
  327. 327XIII.
  328. 328The Doctors
  329. 329XIV.
  330. 330XV.
  331. 331XVI.
  332. 332XVII.
  333. 333XVIII.
  334. 334XIX.
  335. 335XX.
  336. 336XXI.
  337. 337XXII.
  338. 338XXIII.
  339. 339XXIV.
  340. 340XXV.
  341. 341XXVI.
  342. 342XXVII.
  343. 343XXVIII.
  344. 344and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sister
  345. 345Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne
  346. 346I. D
  347. 347To Mr Tilman after he had taken orders
  348. 348A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany
  349. 349Chap. I.
  350. 350Chap. Ii.
  351. 351Chap. Iii.
  352. 352Chap. Iv.
  353. 353Chap. V.
  354. 354Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse
  355. 355A Hymne to God the Father:
  356. 356I.
  357. 357II.
  358. 358III.
  359. 359To Christ

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