Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons… — John Donne Copy Share Image
My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Love is the only angel, who can bid the gates unroll, and when he comes to call thee, arise and follow fast,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that… — John Donne Copy Share Image
But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“He is stark mad, whoever says, That he hath been in love an hour, Yet not that love so soon decays, But… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.” — John Donne Copy Share Image
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on… — John Donne Copy Share Image
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet? — John Donne Copy Share Image
And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other… — John Donne Copy Share Image
When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so? — John Donne Copy Share Image
This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life. — John Donne Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but… — John Donne Copy Share Image
We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Various content To your eyes, ears, and tongue, and every part. If then your body go, what need you a heart? — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. — John Donne Copy Share Image
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull… — John Donne Copy Share Image
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by… — John Donne Copy Share Image
