Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOLY SONNET: 6, by JOHN DONNE


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First Line: This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint
Last Line: For thus I leave the world, the flesh, and devil.
Variant Title(s): "holy Sonnets: 3;""this Is My Play's Last Scene, Here Heavens Appoint"";
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint
My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race
Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace,
My span's last inch, my minute's latest point,
And gluttonous death, will instantly unjoint
My body, and soul, and I shall sleep a space,
But my'ever-waking part shall see that face,
Whose fear already shakes my every joint:
Then, as my soul, to heaven her first seat, takes flight,
And earth-born body, in the earth shall dwell,
So, fall my sins, that all may have their right,
To where there are bred, and would press me, to hell.
Impute me righteous, thus purged of evil,
For thus I leave the world, the flesh, and devil.




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