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Subject: DONNE, JOHN (1572-1631)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIALOGUE, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1580-1630)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If her disdain least change in you can move
Last Line: Which never should to publique tend?
Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, 3d Earl Of
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets; Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639)


A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: My swirling wants. Your frozen lips
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Pain; Poetry & Poets; Suffering; Misery


AN ELEGIE ON DR. DONNE, by LUCIUS CARIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poets attend, the elegie I sing
Last Line: His age saw visions, though his youth dream'd dreams.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


AN ELEGIE UPON DR. DONNE, by IZAAK WALTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is donne, great donne deceas'd? Then england say
Last Line: Write no encomium, but an elegie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Walton, Isaac
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


AN ELEGIE UPON THE INCOMPARABLE DR. DONNE, by HENRY VALENTINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: All is not well when such a one as I
Last Line: His glory is as his gifts, 'bove others farre.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF DOCTOR DONNE, DEAN OF PAUL'S, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can we not force from widowed poetry
Last Line: Apollo's first, at last the true god's priest.
Variant Title(s): An Elegy Upon The Death Of The Dean Of Paul's, John Donne
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


ANN WISHES SHE'D TAKEN A LITTLE MORE HEED, by KATHERINE MCALPINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though sweet to lie, my lovely lay
Last Line: Yes, once again we've been undone
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


DEAD FLEA, by KAREN DONNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis true I am not weakened by this death
Last Line: Go scratch your itching in some other place
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


ELEGIE ON D.D., by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, by one yeare, time and our frailtie have
Last Line: Of what you were, then what you are, expresse.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


ELEGY FOR DOCTOR DONNE, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What though the vulgar and received praise
Last Line: Such vice avail more than their virtues can.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies deane donne; enough; those words alone
Last Line: "his spirit, will day, it is lesse bold than true"
Subject(s): "donne, John (1572-1631);epitaphs;poetry & Poets;


EPITAPH UPON DR. DONNE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This decent urne a sad inscription weares
Last Line: "which with amazements, we may now reherse"
Subject(s): "donne, John (1572-1631);epitaphs;poetry & Poets;


HEXASTICHON AD BIBLIOPOLAM; INCERTI, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In thy impression of donnes poems rare
Last Line: "he, we, and thou shall live t' eternity"
Subject(s): "donne, John (1572-1631);poetry & Poets;


HEXASTICHON BIBLIOPOLAE, by JOHN MARRIOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see in his last preach'd, and printed booke
Last Line: You have him living to eternity.
Variant Title(s): On John Donne's Book Of Poems
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


HIT, by DIANE SEUSS-BRAKEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Batter my heart, three-personed
Last Line: I walk this dark minefield %searching for you
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry And Poets


IN MEMORY OF DOCTOR DONNE, by R. B.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Donne dead? 'tis here reported true, though I
Last Line: And now beleeve that miracles are ceas'd.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


JOHN DONNE, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the dark viands of the church
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry And Poets


JOHN DONNE, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art coming home?' god said to me
Last Line: That you and god had loved me so?
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


JOHN DONNE', by STEPHEN OLDFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keep on the right side of language
Last Line: The grass grows, thus %do the done things %and put down %a result
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry And Poets


LETTER TO JOHN DONNE, by CHARLES HUBERT SISSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I understand you well enough, john donne
Last Line: Are the natural prey of the incarnate christ
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry And Poets


MEMORIZING €ŚTHE SUN RISING€? BY JOHN DONNE, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every reader loves the way he tells off
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631)


ON DOCTOR DONNE, by RICHARD CORBET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hee that would write an epitaph for thee
Last Line: He must be dead first, let'it alone for mee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, Richard
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


ON DONNE'S FIRST POEM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be proud, as spaniards! And leap for pride, ye fleas
Last Line: The natural alien of their negative eye.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


ON DONNE'S POETRY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With donne, whose muse on dromedary trots
Last Line: Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


ON DR. DONNES DEATH, by JASPER MAYNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Who shall presume to mourn thee, donne, unlesse
Last Line: Wee cannot hope the like, till thou returne.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


ON DR. JOHN DONNE, LATE DEANE OF S. PAULES, LONDON, by I. CHUDLEIGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long since this taske of teares from you was due
Last Line: Must weep here if he have ambition.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


ON THE DEATH OF DR. DONNE, by EDWARD HYDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot blame those men, that knew thee well
Last Line: Here lyes the best divinitie, all the arts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clarendon, 1st Earl Of
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


OUT THERE, by ANNE KENNEDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners'
Last Line: The edge of the universe
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry And Poets


PREFATORY POEMS TO DONNE'S ANNIVERSARIES: THE HARBINGER OF THE SOUL, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two soules move here, and mine (a third) must move
Last Line: Which praise those awfull powers that make them blest.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


PREFATORY POEMS TO DONNE'S ANNIVERSARIES: TO THE PRAISE OF THE DEAD, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well dy'd the world, that we might live to see
Last Line: Till wee shall sing thy ditty and thy note.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


SEASON'S LOVERS, by MIRIAM DWORKIN WADDINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the daisied lap of summer
Last Line: Unless you read love's double mind %or invent its polar map
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry And Poets


THE FOURTH SATIRE OF DR. JOHN DONNE, VERSIFYED, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, if it be time to quit the stage
Last Line: In time to come, may pass for holy writ.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


THE SECOND SATIRE OF DR. JOHN DONNE, VERSIFYED, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes; thank my stars! As early as I knew
Last Line: Within the reach of treason, or the law.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


TO DONNE RHYMING, by MARY HOLTBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Busy young fool, unruly donne
Last Line: (the afternoon might be a better time)
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


TO JOHN DONNE (1), by BEN JONSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who shall doubt, donne, where I a poet be
Last Line: A man should seek great glory, and not broad.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


TO JOHN DONNE (2), by BEN JONSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Donne, the delight of phoebus and each muse
Last Line: But leave, because I cannot as I should!
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


TO LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD, WITH MR. DONNE'S SATIRES, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lucy, you brightness of our sphere, who are
Last Line: The muses evening, as their morning-starre.
Subject(s): Bedford, Lucy, Countess Of (1581-1627); Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets; Russell, Lucy, Countess Of Bedford


TO MY OLD AND MOST WORTHY FRIEND MR. IZAAK WALTON, ON LIFE OF DONNE, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, to a nation's loss, the virtuous die
Last Line: I think an honester can not be read.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)


TO THE DECEASED AUTHOR, UPON THE PROMISCUOUS PRINTING OF HIS POEMS, by THOMAS BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When thy loose raptures, donne, shall meet with those
Last Line: That they would buy thy goodnesse, with thy crimes.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


UPON MR. J. DONNE, AND HIS POEMS, by ARTHUR WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who dares say thou art dead, when he doth see
Last Line: In panegyrique alleluiaes.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


UPON THE DEATH OF MY EVER CONSTANT FRIEND DOCTOR DONNE, DEAN OF PAUL'S, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To have lived eminent, in a degree
Last Line: To forme the diamond, but the diamonds dust.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My swirling wants. Your frozen lips
Last Line: To do something very common, in my own way
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Pain; Poetry And Poets