A Lame Beggar

John DonneJohn Donne

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John Donne
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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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    If poisonous minerals, and if that treeWhose fruit threw death on else immortal us,

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    If poisonous minerals, and if that treeWhose fruit threw death on else immortal us,

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    I fix mine eye on thine, and therePity my picture burning in thine eye;

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