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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EXPIRATION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss Last Line: Being double dead: going, and bidding go. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | |||
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapours both, away; Turn thou, ghost, that way, and let me turn this, And let our selves benight our happiest day. We asked none leave to love, nor will we owe Any so cheap a death as saying, Go. Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee, Ease me with death by bidding me got too. Oh, if it have, let my word work on me, And a just office on a murderer do. Except it be too late to kill me so, Being double dead: going, and bidding go. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A HYMN TO CHRIST, AT THE AUTHOR'S LAST GOING INTO GERMANY by JOHN DONNE |
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