Perhaps you treat me as men treat torches which are kept at hand to be lit and quenched again. Verse 2: If that should occur in a time or reign where Catholicism (mis-devotion, i.e. To view the original texts you can access the excellent Digital Donne website which contains texts and images of the source volumes. But we by a love so much refined, I cannot breathe one other sigh, to move. Meet at this grave, and make a little stay? For he thinks that no one else can say, I love: nor that anyone can be in love but himself. [14], Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,    Though I must go, endure not yet And give honour or conscience as their excuse for abandoning him, things which are idle fantasies, as idle as are they themselves and their privilege. Your fellow deities (ironic) at Court every day teach the arts of verse, hunting, and gambling to those who were already in thrall to the Court and its courtiers. ‘Twas neither very sound, nor meant to me. I brought my heart into the room, but did not carry it away again. Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is. A bracelet of bright hair about the bone. A breach, but an expansion, Or it’s like a pair of compasses, where you are the one in the centre and I the one which circles it: you stay on the same spot, yet you still move, since you revolve as I move around the perimeter. I can love all of you and any of you, so long as you are not faithful.     No teare-floods, nor sigh-tempests move, Verse 4: May the venom of all stepmothers, the bitterness of all gamesters, everything that tyrants wish regarding their subjects and subjects wish regarding their tyrants, whatever ills plants, mines, beasts, fowl, and fish can contribute, all ill that prophets or poets declared, and all ill that shall be added in formal lists to this, by me, fall on that man.    To tell the laity our love. A kind of sorrowing dullness to the mind. yield to me). — A short overview and explanation of Metaphysical Poetry, provided by the Academy of American Poets. But we conspire with bad luck to make things worse.    And grows erect, as that comes home. But if this medicine, love, which cures all sorrow. Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow? In that way, you will remember me correctly while forgetting me, and will write to me, though you are unaware of it. Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den? Moving of th’ earth brings harms and fears, Men reckon what it did, and meant; But trepidation of the … She heard not this till now; and that it should be so no more. A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead; And pampered swells with one blood made of two.     The breath goes now, and some say, no: Verse 2: Alas, alas, who is hurt by my love? When I had ripped, and searched where hearts should lie, It killed me again, that I who still was true. And cut their legs with shells and weeds. Bind but till sleep, death’s image, them unloose? And, in false sleep, will from thee shrink : And then, poor aspen wretch, neglected thou. Verse 3: Firstly, we loved well and faithfully (a miracle in itself), yet had no idea what or why we loved. Perchance might kiss, but not between those meals; Which nature, injured by late law, sets free. And let ourselves benight our happiest day. This meant rescuing human love from both the angelic mysticism and the erotic formalism of the Italian tradition and restoring it to its proper domain: humanity. Elizabeth soon remarried to a wealthy doctor, ensuring that the family remained comfortable; as a result, despite being the son of an ironmonger and portraying himself in his early poetry as an outsider, Donne refused to accept that he was anything other than a gentleman. Verse 1: Come and live with me and be my love, and we will discover some new pleasures among golden sands and crystal brooks, with silken lines and silver hooks. [20] Achsah Guibbory identifies a pun in "the fix'd foot... Thy firmness makes my circle just"; a circle with a dot in the middle is the alchemical symbol for gold, an element referred to in a previous stanza. And when I come to where beautiful women are that might move me to love, I will shun their passion though admiring their power, as men do when the summer sun is hot and they shun its heat. Love, never let me be aware that this which I feel is love, or that love is childish. Of letters, which have past ’twixt thee and me; Thence write our annals, and in them will be. Verse 2: If you’re born to achieve such impossibilities, to see strange things and invisible sights, then ride for ten thousand days and nights till your hair turns white with age. LitCharts Teacher Editions. Verse 4: But I am none of these; nor will my sun grow in power again like the sun of the coming year. To write threescore; this is the second of our reign. Who claims that my tears have overflowed onto his land? When they shall find your picture in my heart. Such wilt thou be to mee, who must Verse 2: Or if you gave me all your love then, it was simply the sum of all that you had then, and if new love has been created in your heart since then, by other men, who still have their wealth of tears, sighs, oaths and letters to expend, and so can outbid me, then this new love adds to my fears, since it is not included in the love you then vowed to me. And makes me end where I begun. Morning shadows grow shorter, but afternoon shadows lengthen all the rest of the day until sunset, though love’s day is short in duration if love is decaying. Verse 1: Go and do impossible things – catch a meteor; get a mandrake root (the root of Mandragora officinarum, thought to resemble human form) with child; say where past years are; who cleft the devil’s foot; and teach me impossible things too – how to hear the song of the mermaid; how to prevent envy’s sting; and what serves to advance the prospects of an honest mind. Mine eyes to Argus, if mine eyes can see; If they be blind, then, Love, I give them thee; My tongue to Fame; to ambassadors mine ears; By making me serve her who had twenty more. Verse 4: Here love’s theologians (since love is all divinity or miracle it has its own divines or theologians) may find all they are looking for, whether they prefer abstract spiritual love, their souls breathed out in what is invisible, or whether, reluctant to run the risk of testing the fragility of faith by abstractions, they prefer something solid that they can see and make use of (also employ in the sexual sense). Verse 3: If that is not the case, then what else happened to my heart when I first saw you? Sure, they which made him god, meant not so much. When by thy scorn, O murd’ress, I am dead. Where we almost, yea, more than married are. And you will be better able to remain wholly constant like this, because you will have it before you as an example. ‘Therefore, although I must physically leave you, our souls don’t feel there’s any distance between us: it feels more like an expansion, much as when gold is beaten out into thin sheets so it covers a greater area. Verse 14: Just as the stars work on man only by first imprinting the air with their influence, so soul may flow into the combined soul, though it first inhabits the body. Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die. My tears before thy face, whilst I stay here.     (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Verse 6: So though I must depart, our two souls, which are as one, do not suffer a separation but an expansion, like gold sheet beaten to an airy thinness. Interesting Literature is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon.co.uk. This kinship between their souls means that they can transcend the physical basis of their relationship and so endure time apart from each other, while Donne is on the Continent and his wife remains back at home. Verse 2: If Nature had originally chosen to make each woman either good or bad, then we would hate those who were bad and love those who were good. It leans and hearkens after it,  Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show Such wilt thou be to me, who must,  If your eye has not been blinded by her bright eyes, look and tell me, late tomorrow after the whole earth has passed beneath your gaze, whether both the East and West Indies and their spice and mines are still where you left them yesterday (last night), or lie here beside me. Verse 2: Little do you know, my poor heart, that still endeavours to find a nest, and thinks by hovering here to make a conquest of a forbidden (married?) And love; all, all some properties invest. You must not touch that symbol, that secret charm, because it is my external soul. Ptolemaic Astronomy    Though I must go, endure not yet  Sometimes I rest, neglecting the sport. My truth to them who at the court do live; Thou, Love, taught’st me, by appointing me. [15], Theresa M. DiPasquale notes the use of "refined" as a continuation of an alchemical theme set in the earlier stanzas, with the phrase "so much refined" ambiguous as to whether it is modifying "love", or the couple themselves are being refined by the love they share. [23], Targoff argues that "A Valediction" follows on from Donne's earlier poem "A Valediction: of my Name, in the Window" in theme, with the opening stanza of one, like the closing stanza of the other, concerning itself with dying men,[24] while J.D. Verse 3: But every modern god has now extended his sovereign rights to cover the same extent as Jupiter’s. So if you don’t wish your love to be frustrated by my dying, then if you love me, beware of loving me.

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