Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LITANY: 19, by JOHN DONNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And through that bitter agony Last Line: Wee may not, and we may blinde unjust men. | ||||||||
And through that bitter agonie, Which is still the agonie of pious wits, Disputing what distorted thee, And interrupted evennesse, with fits; And through thy free confession Though thereby they were then Made blind, so that thou might'st from them have gone, Good Lord deliver us, and teach us when Wee may not, and we may blinde unjust men. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A HYMN TO CHRIST, AT THE AUTHOR'S LAST GOING INTO GERMANY by JOHN DONNE A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER by JOHN DONNE A LECTURE UPON THE SHADOW by JOHN DONNE A NOCTURNAL UPON ST. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY by JOHN DONNE A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING by JOHN DONNE A VALEDICTION: OF MY NAME IN THE WINDOW by JOHN DONNE A VALEDICTION: OF THE BOOKE by JOHN DONNE A VALEDICTION: OF WEEPING by JOHN DONNE AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY by JOHN DONNE ELEGY: 11. THE BRACELET; UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESS'S CHAIN by JOHN DONNE |
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