...this, All honour's mimic; all wealth alchemy. 25 Thou sun art half as happy as we, In that the world's contracted thus; Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; 30 This bed thy centre is, these...

...world's contracted4 thus; Thine age askes ease3, and since thy duties bee To warme the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art every where; This bed thy centre is, these wall, thy spheare6. Throughout this whole stanza, as throughout the whole poem, Donne's expression...

...this, All honour's mimic; all wealth alchemy. Thou sun art half as happy as we, In that the world's contracted thus; Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy centre is, these...

...this, All honor's mimic; all wealth alchemy. Thou sun art half as happy as we, In that the world's contracted thus; Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy center is, these...

...this, All honour's mimic; all wealth alchemy.0 Thou sun art half as happy as we, In that the world's contracted thus; Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, mat's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy centre is, these...

...of beguiling lyrics, a young John Donne will consider how to render private experience into a world: "Shine here to us, and thou art every where; / This bed thy center is, these walls, thy spheare" (1: 12) But Donne's feat of worldmaking, from the standpoint of...

...world's contracted thus; Thine age askes ease, and since thy duties bee To \\arme the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art every where; This bed thy center is, these walls, thy spheare. A lover complains extravagantly to the sun for disturbing his...

...not blinded thine' the sun is instructed to circle round the room and to warm 'us' with its beams: Shine here to us, and thou art every where; This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere. But if the sun should be unable to do its duty that will not matter,...

...mimic; all wealth alchemy. THE HUMAN Thou, sun, art half as happy as we, CONDITION In that the world's contracted thus; Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere: This bed thy center is, these...

...All here in one bed lay. She' is all states, and all princes, I, Nothing else is. In that the world's contracted thus; Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy centre is, these...