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Whilst my Physitians by their love are growne Cosmographers, and I their Mapp, who lie Flat on this bed, that by them may be showne That this is my South-west discoverie per-fretum febris, by these streights to die.
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Man has weav'd out a net, and this net throwne Upon the Heavens, and now they are his owne.
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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
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Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.
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Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
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Born:
January 22, 1572
Died:
March 31, 1631
(aged 59)
Bio:
John Donne was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets.
Known for:
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Holy Sonnets
The Good-Morrow
Death Be Not Proud
The Canonization
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