John Donne — English Poetry Library

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John Donne1572–163116th century John Donne was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631). He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs and satires. He is also known for his sermons.

Poems

150 poems

19. On the blessed Virgin Mary.4 lines
A Burnt Ship6 lines
A Fever28 lines
A Hymn To God The Father18 lines
A Jet Ring Sent12 lines
A Lecture Upon the Shadow26 lines
A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day46 lines
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning36 lines
A Valediction: Of My Name, in the Window76 lines
A Valediction: Of Weeping27 lines
Air And Angels28 lines
APPENDIX C36 lines
Audio formats available:5 lines
B. JON.58 lines
B. JONS.19 lines
Break of Day18 lines
CANON.109 lines
Celestial Music39 lines
Community24 lines
Compassion in the world againe is bred:11 lines
Confined Love21 lines
CONTENTS OF VOL. I8 lines
DEATH.89 lines
EDITIONS OCCASIONALLY CITED.9 lines
ELEGIE I.57 lines
ELEGIE II.91 lines
ELEGIE III.64 lines
ELEGIE IV.109 lines
ELEGIE V.45 lines
ELEGIE VI.58 lines
ELEGIES21 lines
Elegy IX: The Autumnal50 lines
EPICEDES AND OBSEQUIES UPON THE11 lines
EPIGRAMS.75 lines
EPITAPHS5 lines
EPITHALAMIONS, OR MARRIAGE SONGS6 lines
Ev'ry thy hair _1633_6 lines
Farewell to Love40 lines
For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love.15 lines
Had we never lov'd sae kindly68 lines
Had we never loved sae kindly83 lines
His steeds nill be restrain'd5 lines
Holy Sonnet I: Tho Has Made Me14 lines
Holy Sonnet II: As Due By Many Titles I Resign14 lines
Holy Sonnet III: O Might Those Sighs And Tears Return Again14 lines
Holy Sonnet IV: Oh My Black Soul! Now Art Thou Summoned14 lines
Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree14 lines
Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Made Cunningly14 lines
Holy Sonnet VI: This Is My Play's Last Scene, Here Heavens Appoint14 lines
Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow14 lines
Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified14 lines
Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud14 lines
Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jews, And Pierce My Side14 lines
Holy Sonnet XII: Why Are We By All Creatures Waited On?14 lines
Holy Sonnet XIII: What If This Present Were The World's Last Night?14 lines
Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One14 lines
Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God, As He Thee? Then Digest14 lines
Holy Sonnet XVI: Father, Part Of His Double Interest14 lines
Holy Sonnet XVII: Since She Whom I Loved14 lines
Holy Sonnet XVIII: Show me, dear Christ, thy Spouse, so bright and clear14 lines
HOLY SONNETS46 lines
I.6 lines
If in his Studie he hath so much care52 lines
II.6 lines
III.6 lines
IIII.14 lines
Incerti.8 lines
IV5 lines
IX.6 lines
Language: English62 lines
LATIN POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS6 lines
LETTERS TO SEVERALL PERSONAGES37 lines
LIST OF EDITIONS REGULARLY CITED IN NOTES.5 lines
LIST OF MS. SIGLA37 lines
LONDON.36 lines
Love's Alchemy24 lines
Love's Deity28 lines
Love's Diet30 lines
Love's Exchange42 lines
Love's Growth29 lines
Love's Usury24 lines
Lovers' Infiniteness33 lines
Negative Love18 lines
No use of lanthorns; and in one place lay148 lines
NOTE27 lines
October 20066 lines
Oxford5 lines
PLATES6 lines
Play _D:_ play _1633-69_]8 lines
POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN DONNE IN THE OLD EDITIONS12 lines
Realmes] names _1669_]21 lines
Section 2.15 lines
Section 3.16 lines
Section 4.27 lines
Section 5.23 lines
Self-Love25 lines
Since there must reside10 lines
Some ACCOUNT of the LIFE25 lines
Song (Go And Catch A Falling Star)27 lines
Song: Sweetest love, I do not go40 lines
Stars are not by the sunne enlarg'd; but showne50 lines
TEXT47 lines
The Anniversary30 lines
The Blossom40 lines
The Broken Heart32 lines
The Canonization45 lines
The Computation10 lines
The Curse32 lines
The Damp24 lines
The Dissolution24 lines
The Dream30 lines
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame.20 lines
The Expiration12 lines
The Flea27 lines
THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE7 lines
The Funeral24 lines
The Good-Morrow21 lines
The Indifferent27 lines
The Legacy24 lines
The Message24 lines
The Paradox20 lines
The Primrose30 lines
The Primrose, Being at Montgomery Castle, Upon the Hill, on Which It Is Situate30 lines
The Prohibition24 lines
The Relic33 lines
The Sun Rising30 lines
The Token18 lines
The Triple Fool22 lines
The Undertaking28 lines
The Will54 lines
This file should be named 19784.txt.19 lines
Those things which elemented it _1633_62 lines
Thou shalt be a Mary _Magdalen_ and I48 lines
TO JOHN DONNE.12 lines
To the Right Honourable35 lines
TO WHICH39 lines
To which is added35 lines
Transcriber's note:16 lines
Twickenham Garden27 lines
UNDERSTANDERS.62 lines
V.6 lines
Valediction To His Book63 lines
VI.6 lines
VII.6 lines
VIII.6 lines
Whose mortal taste109 lines
Witchcraft by a Picture14 lines
Woman's Constancy17 lines
X.6 lines
You have refin'd me98 lines