...art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like ( Write it!) like disaster. John Donne 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...

...circle around a central point). FORM : Tetrameter quatrains rhyming abab, Go and Catch a Falling Star 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...

...upon Akar Black Head though and she worried for her lover. Prince Michael of the Ants began to quote: 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. 'Oh, yes!' he cried,...

...ahead. Call her. — Haven't you ever been kissed? No. Only in books. By William Blake and John Donne. "Go, and catch a falling star, /Get with child a mandrake root." — Those are your lovers but they've got cold lips. They've been in the ground so long not even April...

...the bravura sweep and daring of its conceptualization. Turner died in 1997, at the age of eighty-two. Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root . . . — From the song, "Go, and catch", by John Donne Four stars make Capella: two G-type suns sharing...

...not long before I found this same eerie, spellbinding quality in other places, such as John Donne's "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...

...Donne, we can also see further evidence of this belief, and also its associations with the black arts: Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root. Tell me, where all the past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot. The root also possessed supposed aphrodisiac properties,...

...equally;0 If our two loves be one, or, thou and I 20 Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die. Song Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root,0 Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids...

...shriek when pulled out of the ground. Its shape resembled a human form. 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. If thou beest born to strange...

...us, and we drown. In "Song," Donne gives a list of impossible achievements of knowledge and power: 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 . . . But Donne doesn't...