The Complete English Poems

, by Donne, John (Author); Smith, A. J. (Editor/introduction)

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ISBN: 9780140422092 | 0140422099
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Copyright: 8/1/1977

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No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, is an intensity of feeling and expression and complexity of argument that is as evident in religious meditations such as 'Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward' as it is in secular love poems such as 'The Sun Rising' or 'The Flea'. 'The intricacy and subtlety of his imagination are the length and depth of the furrow made by his passion,' wrote Yeats, pinpointing the unique genius of a poet who combined ardour and intellect in equal measure.

Preface

(4)

Table of Dates

(9)

Further Reading

(7)

A Note on the Metre

(8)

Songs and Sonnets

Air and Angels

(1)

The Anniversary

(1)

The Apparition

(1)

The Bait

(1)

The Blossom

(1)

Break of Day

(1)

The Broken Heart

(1)

The Canonization

(1)

Community

(1)

The Computation

(1)

Confined Love

(1)

The Curse

(1)

The Damp

(1)

The Dissolution

(1)

The Dream

(1)

The Ecstasy

(3)

The Expiration

(1)

Farewell to Love

(1)

A Fever

(1)

The Flea

(1)

The Funeral

(1)

The Good Morrow

(1)

The Indifferent

(1)

A Jet Ring Sent

(1)

A Lecture upon the Shadow

(1)

The Legacy

(1)

Lovers' Infiniteness

(1)

Love's Alchemy

(1)

Love's Deity

(1)

Love's Diet

(1)

Love's Exchange

(2)

Love's Growth

(1)

Love's Usury

(1)

The Message

(1)

Negative Love

(1)

A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day

(1)

The Paradox

(1)

The Primrose

(1)

The Prohibition

(1)

The Relic

(1)

Self Love

(1)

Song (Go, and catch a falling star)

(1)

Song (Sweetest love, I do not go)

(1)

Sonnet. The Token

(1)

The Sun Rising

(1)

The Triple Fool

(1)

Twicknam Garden

(1)

The Undertaking

(1)

A Valediction: forbidding Mourning

(1)

A Valediction: of the Book

(2)

A Valediction: of my Name in the Window

(2)

A Valediction: of Weeping

(1)

The Will

(1)

Witchcraft by a Picture

(1)

Woman's Constancy

(3)

Elegies

Jealousy

(1)

The Anagram

(1)

Change

(1)

The Perfume

(2)

His Picture

100

(1)

Oh, let me not serve so

101

(1)

Nature's lay idiot

102

(1)

The Comparison

103

(2)

The Autumnal

105

(1)

The Dream

106

(1)

The Bracelet

107

(3)

His Parting from Her

110

(3)

Julia

113

(1)

A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife

114

(2)

The Expostulation

116

(2)

On his Mistress

118

(1)

Variety

119

(3)

Love's Progress

122

(2)

To his Mistress Going to Bed

124

(2)

Love's War

126

(7)

Sappho to Philaenis

127

(6)

Epithalamions or Marriage Songs

Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn

133

(2)

An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine being Married on St Valentine's Day

135

(4)

Eclogue 1613. December 26

139

(3)

Epithalamion

142

(7)

Epigrams

Hero and Leander

149

(1)

Pyramus and Thisbe

149

(1)

Niobe

149

(1)

A Burnt Ship

149

(1)

Fall of a Wall

149

(1)

A Lame Beggar

150

(1)

Cales and Guiana

150

(1)

Sir John Wingfield

150

(1)

A Self Accuser

150

(1)

A Licentious Person

150

(1)

Antiquary

151

(1)

Disinherited

151

(1)

Phryne

151

(1)

An Obscure Writer

151

(1)

Klockius

151

(1)

Raderus

151

(1)

Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus

152

(1)

Ralphius

152

(1)

The Liar

152

(1)

Manliness

152

(3)

Satires

Away thou fondling motley humourist

155

(3)

Sir; though (I thank God for it) I do hate

158

(3)

Kind pity chokes my spleen

161

(3)

Well; I may now receive, and die

164

(6)

Thou shalt not laugh in this leaf, Muse

170

(6)

Upon Mr Thomas Coryat's Crudities

173

(3)

The Progress of the Soul (Metempsychosis)

176

(175)

Verse Letters

The Storm

197

(2)

The Calm

199

(1)

To Mr B. B.

200

(1)

To Mr C. B.

201

(1)

To Mr S. B.

202

(1)

To Mr E. G.

202

(1)

To Mr I. L. (Blessed are your north parts)

203

(1)

To Mr I. L. (Of that short roll of friends)

203

(1)

To Mr R. W. (If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be)

204

(1)

To Mr R. W. (Kindly I envy thy song's perfection)

205

(1)

To Mr R. W (Muse not that by thy mind thy body is led)

205

(1)

To Mr R. W. (Zealously my Muse doth salute all thee)

206

(1)

To Mr Rowland Woodward

206

(1)

To Mr T. W. (All hail, sweet poet)

207

(1)

To Mr T. W. (At once, from hence)

208

(1)

To Mr T. W. (Haste thee harsh verse)

209

(1)

To Mr T. W. (Pregnant again with th' old twins)

209

(1)

To Sir Henry Goodyer

210

(2)

A Letter Written by Sir H. G. and J. D. alternis vicibus

212

(1)

To Sir Henry Wotton (Here's no more news)

213

(1)

To Sir Henry Wotton (Sir, more than kisses)

214

(2)

To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going Ambassador to Venice

216

(1)

H. W. in Hibernia Belligeranti

217

(1)

To Sir Edward Herbert, at Juliers

218

(1)

To Mrs M. H.

219

(2)

To the Countess of Bedford at New Year's Tide

221

(2)

To the Countess of Bedford (Honour is so sublime perfection)

223

(2)

To the Countess of Bedford (Reason is our soul's left hand)

225

(1)

To the Countess of Bedford (Though I be dead)

226

(1)

To the Countess of Bedford (To have written then)

227

(2)

To the Countess of Bedford (You have refined me)

229

(2)

To the Lady Bedford

231

(2)

Epitaph on Himself

233

(1)

A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mistress Essex Rich, from Amiens

234

(2)

To the Countess of Huntingdon (Man to God's image)

236

(2)

To the Countess of Huntingdon (That unripe side of earth)

238

(4)

To the Countess of Salisbury

242

(5)

Epicedes and Obsequies

Elegy on the L. C.

247

(1)

Elegy on the Lady Markham

247

(2)

Elegy on Mistress Boulstred

249

(2)

An Elegy upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred

251

(2)

Elegy upon the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry

253

(3)

Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Lady Lucy, Countess of Bedford

256

(7)

An Hymn to the Saints, and to Marquis Hamilton

263

(6)

The Anniversaries

An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary

269

(1)

To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy

269

(1)

An Anatomy of the World

270

(13)

A Funeral Elegy

283

(3)

Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary

286

(1)

The Harbinger to the Progress

286

(1)

Of the Progress of the Soul

287

(22)

Divine Poems

To E. of D. with Six Holy Sonnets

305

(1)

To Mrs Magdalen Herbert: of St Mary Magdalen

305

(1)

Holy Sonnets

306

(1)

La Corona

306

(3)

Divine Meditations

309

(1)

Thou hast made me

309

(1)

As due by many titles

309

(1)

O might those sighs and tears

310

(1)

Oh my black soul!

310

(1)

I am a little world

310

(1)

This is my play's last scene

311

(1)

At the round earth's imagined corners

311

(1)

If faithful souls be alike glorified

312

(1)

If poisonous minerals

312

(1)

Death be not proud

313

(1)

Spit in my face ye Jews

313

(1)

Why are we by all creatures waited on?

313

(1)

What if this present were the world's last night?

314

(1)

Batter my heart, three-personed God

314

(1)

Wilt thou love God, as he thee?

315

(1)

Father, part of his double interest

315

(1)

Since she whom I loved

316

(1)

Show me dear Christ

316

(1)

Oh, to vex me

316

(35)

A Litany

317

(9)

The Cross

326

(1)

Resurrection, imperfect

327

(1)

Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608

328

(1)

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward

329

(2)

To Mr Tilman after he had taken orders

331

(1)

Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney, and the Countess of Pembroke his Sister

332

(2)

The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremellius

334

(12)

A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's last going into Germany

346

(1)

Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness

347

(1)

A Hymn to God the Father

348

(3)

Notes

351

(318)

Index of Titles

669

(6)

Index of First Lines

675

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