John Donne on Women
1572–1631 England
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Just such disparity
As is ’twixt air and angels’ purity,
’Twixt women’s love, and men’s will ever be.
Poems (1633)
Oh do not die, for I shall hate
All women so, when thou art gone.
Poems (1633)
A naked thinking heart, that makes no show,
Is to a woman, but a kind of ghost.
Poems (1633)
Licence my roving hands, and let them go,
Behind, before, above, between, below.
O, my America, my New-found-land,
My kingdom, safeliest when with one man mann'd.
Be then thine own home, and in thyself dwell;
Inn anywhere;
And seeing the snail, which everywhere doth roam,
Carrying his own home still, still is at home,
Follow (for he is easy-paced) this snail:
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.