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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.
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For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.
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But think that we
Are but turned aside to sleep.
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Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear.
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Yesternight the sun went hence,
And yet is here today.
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Change is the nursery
Of music, joy, life, and eternity.
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She is all states, and all princes, I,
Nothing else is.
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Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.
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Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.
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I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.
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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
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Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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When I died last, and dear, I die
As often as from thee I go.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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And dare love that, and say so too,
And forget the He and She.
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Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.
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But I do nothing upon my self, and yet I am mine own Executioner.
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
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Oh do not die, for I shall hate
All women so, when thou art gone.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
John Donne
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Born:
January 22, 1572
Died:
March 31, 1631
(aged 59)
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