About John Donne
1572 - 1631/Male/EnglishA poet and cleric, Donne wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems, and is known for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.
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Poetry & Stories
Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene
This is my play's last scene; here heavens appointMy pilgrimage's last mile; and my race,
Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
If poisonous minerals, and if that treeWhose fruit threw death on else immortal us,
Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree
If poisonous minerals, and if that treeWhose fruit threw death on else immortal us,
Witchcraft By A Picture
I fix mine eye on thine, and therePity my picture burning in thine eye;
A Lame Beggar
I am unable, yonder beggar cries,To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies.
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Who is John Donne?
1572 - 1631/Male/EnglishA poet and cleric, Donne wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems, and is known for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.
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Poems & Stories by John Donne
Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene
This is my play's last scene; here heavens appointMy pilgrimage's last mile; and my race,
Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
If poisonous minerals, and if that treeWhose fruit threw death on else immortal us,
Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree
If poisonous minerals, and if that treeWhose fruit threw death on else immortal us,
Witchcraft By A Picture
I fix mine eye on thine, and therePity my picture burning in thine eye;
A Lame Beggar
I am unable, yonder beggar cries,To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies.
The Sun Rising
Busy old fool, unruly sun,Why dost thou thus,
Holy Sonnet III: O Might Those Sighs And Tears Return Again
O might those sighs and tears return againInto my breast and eyes, which I have spent,
John Donne - The Paradox
No Lover saith, I love, nor any otherCan judge a perfect Lover;
The Legacy
When I died last, and, Dear, I dieAs often as from thee I go,
An Anatomy Of The World...
AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD Wherein, by occasion of the untimely death ofMistress Elizabeth Drury, the frailty and the decay of this whole world is
A Fever
Oh do not die, for I shall hateAll women so, when thou art gone,
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)
Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;
Selected Quotes by John Donne (चुनिंदा उद्धरण)
Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;
AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD Wherein, by occasion of the untimely death ofMistress Elizabeth Drury, the frailty and the decay of this whole world is
If poisonous minerals, and if that treeWhose fruit threw death on else immortal us,
Busy old fool, unruly sun,Why dost thou thus,
When I died last, and, Dear, I dieAs often as from thee I go,
O might those sighs and tears return againInto my breast and eyes, which I have spent,
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