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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

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JOHN DONNE Send me nor this, nor that, to increase my store,
But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no m...
JOHN DONNE Annunciation

Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is all every...
JOHN DONNE And Jacob came clothed in vile harsh attire, But to supplant, and with gainful intent; God clothed H...
JOHN DONNE Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call,
for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
JOHN DONNE I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost
Who died before the god of Love was born.
JOHN DONNE Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE How blest am I in this discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds is to be free;
Then where...
JOHN DONNE Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs...
JOHN DONNE This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts
Make of so noble individual parts
On...
JOHN DONNE If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
JOHN DONNE True and false fears let us refrain,
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years an...
JOHN DONNE Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
JOHN DONNE My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares,
And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, JOHN DONNE The Good-Morrow

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov'd? We...
JOHN DONNE Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to me...
JOHN DONNE Death Be Not Proud

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty ...
JOHN DONNE Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;
She gives the best light to his sphere;
Or each ...
JOHN DONNE A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said,
Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,
JOHN DONNE No man is an island, entire of itself.
JOHN DONNE Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book
JOHN DONNE Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast...
JOHN DONNE For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNE No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if...
JOHN DONNE I am two fools, I know, for loving and saying so.
JOHN DONNE Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy...
JOHN DONNE As I do no good action here, merely for the interpretation of good men, though that be one good and ...
JOHN DONNE Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, ...
JOHN DONNE Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our...
JOHN DONNE This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so t...
JOHN DONNE Men perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that the...
JOHN DONNE Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday...
JOHN DONNE Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, Fi...
JOHN DONNE He that asks me what heaven is, means not to hear me, but to silence me; He knows I cannot tell him....
JOHN DONNE Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations o...
JOHN DONNE Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 Our critical day is not the very day of our deat...
JOHN DONNE Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179 That earth and that heaven, which spent God...
JOHN DONNE Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Though natural men, who have induced secondary an...
JOHN DONNE Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we...
JOHN DONNE All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death
JOHN DONNE This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint / My pilgrimage's last mile.
JOHN DONNE Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless f...
JOHN DONNE Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which too long have dwelt on thee
JOHN DONNE As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery
JOHN DONNE As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of famili...
JOHN DONNE But O alas, so long, so far / Our bodies why do we forbear? / They're ours, though they're not we, w...
JOHN DONNE There is a hook in every benefit that sticks in his jaws that takes the benefit, and draws him whith...
JOHN DONNE Licence my roving hands, and let them goBefore, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which...
JOHN DONNE No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know fo...
JOHN DONNE All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of t...
JOHN DONNE One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNE Whoever loves, if he do not propose the right true end of love, he's one that goes to sea for nothin...
JOHN DONNE Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us aw...
JOHN DONNE If our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.
JOHN DONNE Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JOHN DONNE Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crysta...
JOHN DONNE Yet call not this long life; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?
JOHN DONNE But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
JOHN DONNE Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy...
JOHN DONNE Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were
JOHN DONNE The day breaks not, it is my heart.
JOHN DONNE Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant - the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time
JOHN DONNE Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill
JOHN DONNE For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNE like gold to airy thinness beat
JOHN DONNE Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For ...
JOHN DONNE Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
JOHN DONNE And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
JOHN DONNE So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn th...
JOHN DONNE Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side.
JOHN DONNE Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right,
By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know fo...
JOHN DONNE When I died last, and, Dear, I die / As often as from thee I go, / Though it be but an hour ago, / A...
JOHN DONNE On a round ball / A workman that hath copies by, can lay / An Europe, Africa and an Asia, / And quic...
JOHN DONNE That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
JOHN DONNE She, and comparisons are odious.
JOHN DONNE I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
JOHN DONNE So, if I dream I have you, I have you, / For all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm / Nor question much / That subtle wreath of hair, which cro...
JOHN DONNE By our first strange and fatal interview.
JOHN DONNE Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none...
JOHN DONNE I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
JOHN DONNE When my grave is broke up again / Some second guest to entertain.
JOHN DONNE ...but come bad chance
And wee joyne to it our strength
And wee teach it art and length JOHN DONNE My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.
JOHN DONNE For, thus friends absent speak.
JOHN DONNE Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
JOHN DONNE Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JOHN DONNE My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...
DR. JOHN DONNE No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face; Young beauti...
DR. JOHN DONNE I have just got a new theory of eternity.
DR. JOHN DONNE If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time,...
DR. JOHN DONNE He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it; And what that word did make it,...
DR. JOHN DONNE We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distin...
DR. JOHN DONNE When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s...
ELENA DELLE DONNE That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'...
ELENA DELLE DONNE I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than fak...
ELENA DELLE DONNE Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.
ELENA DELLE DONNE I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything fr...
ELENA DELLE DONNE As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real c...
ELENA DELLE DONNE It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emo...
ELENA DELLE DONNE I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and a...
ELENA DELLE DONNE My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

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