Poems
John Donne's love poetry is a magnetic mix of the soul singing, intellectual rigor, and the lascivious prod. Seductions abound, but go hand in hand with metaphors of science, discovery, and conquest: "License my roving hands, and let them go, / Behind, before, above, between, below. / O my America! my new-found-land, / My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned ..." In "The Flea," the speaker even uses a revolting parasite to persuade his young woman to bed. Since the flea has bitten both of them already, he urges, why should they not commingle on a larger scale? But in one of Donne's trademark reversals, the argument fails when the woman squashes the offending insect. "The Good Morrow" is a good deal more romantic, opening: "I wonder by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?" Lines such as "And now good morrow to our waking souls, / Which watch not one another out of fear; / For love all love of other sights controls, / And makes one little room an everywhere" have even made the poem a wedding standard. ("The Sun Rising" is another nuptial favorite.) As usual, however, the poet adds a tincture of imperfection to the vision: the persona's excuse (charming but dubious), "If ever any beauty I did see, / Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee." Though readers might concentrate on the love songs and sonnets, John Carey's edition of the Selected Poetry offers much more, including satires, epigrams, and Donne's brilliant holy sonnets. As rugged, brilliantly contorted, and fraught with feeling as his more diurnal poetry, they are also equally concerned with inconstancy--Donne was born a Catholic, but converted to Anglicanism in 1593. "Batter my heart, three-personed God" ends: "Take me to You, imprison me, for I / Except You' enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except You ravish me."
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Poems
128 págs.
Aug 25, 1997
John Donne
160 págs.
May 17, 2012
The Poems of John Donne
198 págs.
Jan 1, 1970
Poems
135 págs.
Jan 1, 2006
The Poems of John Donne
404 págs.
Jan 1, 1951
Poems
376 págs.
Mar 23, 2021
Poems of John Donne
346 págs.
Mar 10, 2016
Poems
320 págs.
Aug 1, 1975
John Donne Poems
Jan 1, 1946
John Donne: Poems
Poems
135 págs.
Apr 1, 1999
John Donne Poems
Jan 1, 1985
John Donne: Poems
Jan 1, 1978
JOHN DONNE - POEMS
Jan 1, 1976
Poems
340 págs.
Apr 22, 2016
Poems
310 págs.
Sep 10, 2011
Poems
310 págs.
Apr 22, 2016
Poems
290 págs.
Jan 1, 1960
Poems
340 págs.
Sep 10, 2011
Poems
332 págs.
Mar 15, 2015
Poems, 1633
406 págs.
Jan 1, 1969
Poems of John Donne
314 págs.
May 22, 2016
Poems of John Donne
336 págs.
Mar 8, 2019
Poems of John Donne
304 págs.
Aug 24, 2018
Poems of John Donne
306 págs.
Aug 24, 2018
Poems of John Donne
346 págs.
Apr 22, 2016
Poems of John Donne
376 págs.
Mar 23, 2021
Poems of John Donne
314 págs.
Mar 5, 2010
Poems of John Donne
338 págs.
Dec 4, 2009
Poems of John Donne
346 págs.
Sep 10, 2011
Poems of John Donne
338 págs.
Nov 25, 2009
Poems of John Donne
336 págs.
Mar 8, 2019
Poems of John Donne,
Jan 1, 1937
The poems of John Donne
Jan 1, 1931
The Poems of John Donne
510 págs.
Apr 22, 2016
The Poems of John Donne
802 págs.
May 24, 2022
The Poems of John Donne
916 págs.
Mar 29, 2025
The Poems of John Donne
Jan 1, 1957
The Poems of John Donne
Jan 1, 1945
The Poems of John Donne
199 págs.
Jan 1, 1968
The Poems of John Donne
444 págs.
Aug 27, 2016
The Poems of John Donne
916 págs.
Mar 29, 2025
The Poems of John Donne
855 págs.
May 8, 2024
The Poems of John Donne
696 págs.
May 8, 2024
The Poems of John Donne
Jan 1, 1966
The Poems of John Donne
Jan 1, 1949
The Poems of John Donne
Jan 1, 1970
The Poems of John Donne
444 págs.
Jun 27, 2013
The Poems of John Donne
444 págs.
Aug 27, 2016
The Poems of John Donne
199 págs.
Jan 1, 1968
The Poems of John Donne
24 págs.
May 25, 2010
The Poems of John Donne
24 págs.
May 25, 2010
THE POEMS OF JOHN DONNE
404 págs.
Jan 1, 1960
The Poems of John Donne. Ed. H J C Grierson.
The Poems of John Donne, from the Text of the Edition of 1633 Revised by James Russell Lowell. with the Various Readings of the Other Editions
122 págs.
Dec 31, 2009
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