Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WITCHCRAFT BY A PICTURE, by JOHN DONNE


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First Line: I fixe mine eye on thine, and there
Last Line: Being in thine owne heart, from all malice free.
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters


I Fixe mine eye on thine, and there
Pitty my picture burning in thine eye,
My picture drown'd in a transparent teare,
When I looke lower I espie;
Hadst thou the wicked skill
By pictures made and mard, to kill,
How many wayes mightst thou performe thy will?

But now I have drunke thy sweet salt teares,
And though thou poure more I'll depart;
My picture vanish'd, vanish feares,
That I can be endamag'd by that art;
Though thou retaine of mee
One picture more, yet that will bee,
Being in thine owne heart, from all malice free.





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