Stand still, and I will read to thee
A lecture, love, in love’s philosophy.
Quotes from Poems — John Donne
1572–1631 England
86 quotes
I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite.
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So, if I dream I have you, I have you,
For, all our joys are but fantastical.
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Now thou hast loved me one whole day,
To-morrow when thou leavest, what wilt thou say?
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Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee,
Only in this, that you both painted be.
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Shall I leave all this constant company,
And follow headlong, wild uncertain thee?
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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
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As well a well-wrought urn becomes
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
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Oh do not die, for I shall hate
All women so, when thou art gone.
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
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If yet I have not all thy love,
Dear, I shall never have it all.
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For I had rather owner be
Of thee one hour, than all else ever.
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Yesternight the sun went hence,
And yet is here today.
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Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear.
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But think that we
Are but turned aside to sleep.
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A naked thinking heart, that makes no show,
Is to a woman, but a kind of ghost.
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I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Donne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.