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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

— John Donne Poems (1633)

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Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.

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Fill'd with her love, may I be rather grown
Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend,
All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant,
The only harmless great thing.

The Progress of the Soul (1601)

Hail Bishop Valentine, whose day this is;
All the air is thy diocese.

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