John Donne Selected Poems-4
Running it never runs from us away,
BREAK OF DAY.
And therefore what thou wert, and who,
Then think this name alive, and that thou thus
THE ANNIVERSARY.
Into thy fancy from the pane ;
Since I die daily, daily mourn.
No door gainst this names influence shut.
Is much too much ; some fitter must be sought ;
Alas ! as well as other princes, we
If it could speak as well as spy,
For dying men talk often so.
And thou beginst to thaw towards him, for this,
As hard, as that which graved it was ;
He which hath business, and makes love, doth do
As is twixt airs and angels purity,
And that I loved my heart and honour so
It stay, tis but thy carcase then ;
To fuel such a fever long.
Whilst thus to ballast love I thought,
But all such rules loves magic can undo ;
And perish in their infancy.
The poor, the foul, the false, love can
And recompact my scatterd body so,
And clear reflects thee to thine eye.
May my name step in, and hide his.
STAY, O sweet, and do not rise ;
Tis more that it shows thee to thee,
Till my return repair
When thou and I first one another saw.
That thee I shall not celebrate,
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Which are but accessories to this name,
—Who prince enough in one another be—
Though it in thee cannot perséver ;
When I remember thou wast one.
Oft fed with true oaths, and with sweet salt tears ;
You this entireness better may fulfill,
Unto this knowledge to aspire,
III.
II.
A FEVER.
The rafters of my body, bone,
Before I knew thy face or name ;
Fixd in the stars are said to flow
Then as an angel face and wings
Of thee one hour, than all else ever.
So since this name was cut,
But when thou from this world wilt go,
Angels affect us oft, and worshippd be.
The fairest woman, but thy ghost,
This were the worst that it could say,
To look on one, whose wit or land
IX.
Being still with you, the muscle, sinew, and vein
To an overt act and that thou write again,
XI.
The sun it self, which makes time, as they pass,
Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
I saw I had loves pinnace overfraught ;
Disputed it, and tamed thy rage,
Only our love hath no decay ;
Of air, not pure as it, yet pure doth wear,
But souls where nothing dwells but love
And yet she cannot九_九_藏_書 waste by this,
So thy love may be my loves sphere ;
Thy every hair for love to work upon
When bodies to their graves, souls from their graves remove.
Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.
For I had rather owner be
Who is so safe as we? where none can do
As much more loving, as more sad,
But now no more than all the rest.
Takes limbs of flesh, and else could nothing do,
VII.
Just such disparity
The light that shines comes from thine eyes ;
Light hath no tongue, but is all eye ;
But yet thou canst not die, I know ;
New battery to thy heart may frame,
Did we lie down because twas night?
And then we shall be throughly blest ;
Love must not be, but take a body too ;
His letter at thy pillow hath laid,
With wares which would sink admiration,
In it offendst my Genius.
When love and grief their exaltation had,
So, in forgetting thou remembrest right,
Or think this ragged bony name to be
O, wilt thou therefore rise from me?
Which tile this house, will come again.
Love, which in spite of darkness brought us hither,
My ruinous anatomy.
All women so, when thou art gone,
Corrupted by thy lovers gold and page,
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The diamonds of either rock.
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame
Or if, when thou, the worlds soul, gost,
O ! DO not die, for I shall hate
I bid Love ask, and now
These burning fits but meteors be,
Extreme, and scattering bright, can love inhere ;
Yet twas of my mind, seizing thee,
Inpute this idle talk, to that I go,
Nor long bear this torturing wrong,
Should in despite of light keep us together.
IV.
The whole world vapours with thy breath.
Twill make thee ; and thou shouldst, till I return,
Into such characters as gravèd be
Or if too hard and deep
That I would not from him, that had them, go.
All glory of honours, beauties, wits,
All other things to their destruction draw,
This learning be, for a scratchd name to teach,
If one might, death were no divorce.
And when thy melted maid,
ALL kings, and all their favourites,
V.
Thy beauty, and all parts, which are thee,
True and false fears let us refrain,
For more corruption needful is,
VI.
I understand, and grow, and see—
Some lovely glorious nothing did I see.
And so more steadily to have gone,
Emparadised in you—in whom alone
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To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.
TIS true, tis day ; what though it be?
It as a given deaths head keep,
[ANOTHER OF THE SAME.]
And fix itself in thy lip, eye, and brow.
Must business thee from hence remove?
VIII.
Shall burn this world, had none the wit
Years and years unto years, till we attain
More subtle than the parent is
—All other thoughts being inmates—then shall prove
Whose matter in thee is soon spent ;
Here upon earth were kings, and none but we
O ! thats the worst disease of love,
A VALEDICTION OF MY NAME, IN THE WINDOW.
Who have the pattern with you still.
Doth contribute my firmness to this glass,
Are unchangeable firmament.
This or a love increasèd there above,
As all the virtuous powers which are
Thine eye will give it price enough, to mock
Then, as all my souls be
O wrangling schools, that search what fire
But corrupt worms, the worthiest men.
So shall all times find me the same ;
But glass and lines must be
Must leave at last in death these eyes and ears,
Twixt womens love, and mens, will ever be.
That being well I fain would stay,
When thy inconsiderate hand
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Flings open this casement, with my trembling name,
AIR AND ANGELS.
Two graves must hide thine and my corse ;
This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday ;
But since my soul, whose child love is,
As all-confessing, and through-shine as I ;
Can be such kings, nor of such subjects be.
Because that you and I must part.
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Is elder by a year now than it was
And this I murmur in my sleep ;
In superscribing, this name flow
Lovers mortality to preach ;
Here you see me, and I am you.
Treason to us, except one of us two.
That it assume thy body, I allow,
To leave this world behind, is death ;
Stay, or else my joys will die,
And if this treason go
Tis much that glass should be
As no one point, nor dash,
No means our firm substantial love to keep ;
The day breaks not, it is my heart,
Admit, but not the busied man.
Near death inflicts this lethargy,
For, nor in nothing, nor in things
X.
I.
That this her feaver might be it?
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
TWICE or thrice had I loved thee,
When these stars have supremacy.
And unaware to me shalt write.