The Love Poems of John Donne: Selected and Ed. by Charles Eliot NortonHoughton, Mifflin, 1905 - 85 páginas |
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... poet to exclude from these pages poems the existence of which he regretted , and it is doing a service to lovers of poetry to present to them those others which justify Ben Jonson's saying to Drummond of Hawthornden that ' he esteemed ...
... poet to exclude from these pages poems the existence of which he regretted , and it is doing a service to lovers of poetry to present to them those others which justify Ben Jonson's saying to Drummond of Hawthornden that ' he esteemed ...
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... poet . His nature was extraordinarily complex . Heaven and Earth contended in it with a force that made his life a succession of alternating exaltation and depres- sion , loftiness and baseness , rapture and despair . His work , whether ...
... poet . His nature was extraordinarily complex . Heaven and Earth contended in it with a force that made his life a succession of alternating exaltation and depres- sion , loftiness and baseness , rapture and despair . His work , whether ...
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... poet in the world , so Dry- den , with equal justice , could speak of him as the greatest wit , though not the greatest poet of our nation . ' - The reader who has been unacquainted with Donne's poetry will be struck by the difference ...
... poet in the world , so Dry- den , with equal justice , could speak of him as the greatest wit , though not the greatest poet of our nation . ' - The reader who has been unacquainted with Donne's poetry will be struck by the difference ...
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... poets , and there is truth in the saying of Coleridge that to read Dryden , Pope , etc. , you need only count ... poet's suscept- ible fancy in a transient bondage , the second of those when his affections were fixed and his heart ...
... poets , and there is truth in the saying of Coleridge that to read Dryden , Pope , etc. , you need only count ... poet's suscept- ible fancy in a transient bondage , the second of those when his affections were fixed and his heart ...
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... poets did ever equal them . ' ' This poem , ' said Mr. Lowell , in his unpublished lecture on Poetic Diction , ' is a truly sacred one and fuller of the soul of poetry than a whole Alexandrian library of common love verses . ' 21. V.11 ...
... poets did ever equal them . ' ' This poem , ' said Mr. Lowell , in his unpublished lecture on Poetic Diction , ' is a truly sacred one and fuller of the soul of poetry than a whole Alexandrian library of common love verses . ' 21. V.11 ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Angels belief Of mutual body braver thence braver thing breath CHARLES ELIOT NORTON Countess of Bed dead death decay dost drown'd ECSTACY edition Falsehood fears fish fools ghost give given death's-head keep gone Goth grave grow hair hath heed of hating heed of loving help Lucan Homer did find hour idolatry JET RING SENT JOHN DONNE kill kill'd lest let me love Little think'st thou live love and hate LOVE POEMS love This wonder LOVE'S DIET LOVE'S EXCHANGE LOVE'S RECORDS lovers mandrake Marriage meant mistress mix'd Montgomery Castle move oaths Pindar plague plaguy bill poet poetry PRIMROSE quintessence recòrds sense shadows SONG sonnet specular stone spheres spring stanzas stay sweet salt tears take heed taught'st thee thine eye things thou art thou wast thought thy heart thy love to-morrow triumph true TWICKENHAM twixt unto VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING VALEDICTION OF WEEPING vulgar prove
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Página 4 - Song Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.
Página 61 - Song Sweetest love, I do not go For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me...
Página 22 - Come, live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Página 60 - Eagle and the Dove. The Phoenix ridle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral! thing both sexes fit, Wee dye and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.
Página viii - To read Dryden, Pope, &c. you need only count syllables ; but to read Donne you must measure time, and discover the time of each word by the sense and passion.
Página 6 - Garden Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with tears, Hither I come to seek the spring, And at mine eyes, and at mine ears, Receive such balms, as else cure everything; But O, self-traitor, I do bring The spider love, which transubstantiates all, And can convert manna to gall, And that this place may thoroughly be thought True paradise, I have the serpent brought.
Página 75 - Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say 'The breath goes now,' and some say 'No'; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th...
Página 36 - twas of my mind, seizing thee, Though it in thee cannot persever. For I had rather owner be Of thee one hour, than all else ever. Air and Angels Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name...
Página 1 - Then as th' earth's inward narrow crooked lanes Do purge sea-water's fretful salt away, I thought, if I could draw my pains Through rhyme's vexation, I should them allay. Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
Página 44 - So to'entergraft our hands, as yet Was all the meanes to make us one, And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation.