The Good-Morrow

BY JOHN DONNE
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
r snorted we in the !even !leepers" den?
"Twas so# but this, all pleasures $ancies be%
I$ ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and &ot, "twas but a dream o$ thee%
'nd now &ood-morrow to our wakin& souls,
Which watch not one another out o$ $ear#
(or love, all love o$ other si&hts controls,
'nd makes one little room an everywhere%
)et sea-discoverers to new worlds have &one,
)et maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
)et us possess one world, each hath one, and is one%
My $ace in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
'nd true plain hearts do in the $aces rest#
Where can we $ind two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declinin& west?
Whatever dies, was not mi*ed e+ually#
I$ our two loves be one, or, thou and I
)ove so alike, that none do slacken, none can die%
' ,')-DI.TI/ (0BIDDI/G M10/I/G%
by 2ohn Donne
AS virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."
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So let us melt, and mae no noise, !
No tear"floods, nor sigh"tempests move #
$%were profanation of our &oys
%o tell the laity our love.
'oving of th$ earth brings harms and fears #
'en re(on what it did, and meant # 1)
*ut trepidation of the spheres,
%hough greater far, is inno(ent.
+ull sublunary lovers$ love
,Whose soul is sense,(annot admit
-f absen(e, $(ause it doth remove 1!
%he thing whi(h elemented it.
*ut we by a love so mu(h refined,
%hat ourselves now not what it is,
.nter"assur/d of the mind,
0are less, eyes, lips and hands to miss. 1)
-ur two souls therefore, whi(h are one,
%hough . must go, endure not yet
A brea(h, but an e2pansion,
3ie gold to aery thinness beat.
.f they be two, they are two so 1!
As stiff twin (ompasses are two #
%hy soul, the fi2$d foot, maes no show
%o move, but doth, if th$ other do.
And though it in the (entre sit,
4et, when the other far doth roam, 5)
.t leans, and hearens after it,
And grows ere(t, as that (omes home.
Su(h wilt thou be to me, who must,
3ie th$ other foot, obli6uely run #
%hy firmness maes my (ir(le &ust, 5!
And maes me end where . begun.

Woman3s .onstancy
BY JOHN DONNE
/ow thou has loved me one whole day,
Tomorrow when you leav"st, what wilt thou say?
Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow?
r say that now
We are not 4ust those persons which we were?
r, that oaths made in reverential $ear
$ )ove, and his wrath, any may $orswear?
r, as true deaths true marria&es untie,
!o lovers" contracts, ima&es o$ those,
Bind but till sleep, death"s ima&e, them unloose?
r, your own end to 4usti$y,
(or havin& purposed chan&e and $alsehood, you
.an have no way but $alsehood to be true?
,ain lunatic, a&ainst these 5scapes I could
Dispute and con+uer, i$ I would,
Which I abstain to do,
(or by tomorrow, I may think so too%
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by 2ohn Donne
M'07 but this $lea, and mark in this,
6ow little that which thou deniest me is #
It suck3d me $irst, and now sucks thee,
'nd in this $lea our two bloods min&led be%
Thou know3st that this cannot be said
' sin, nor shame, nor loss o$ maidenhead #
8et this en4oys be$ore it woo,
'nd pamper3d swells with one blood made o$ two #
'nd this, alas 9 is more than we would do%
stay, three lives in one $lea spare,
Where we almost, yea, more than married are%
This $lea is you and I, and this
ur marria&e bed, and marria&e temple is%
Thou&h parents &rud&e, and you, we3re met,
'nd cloister3d in these livin& walls o$ 4et%
Thou&h use make you apt to kill me,
)et not to that sel$-murder added be,
'nd sacrile&e, three sins in killin& three%
.ruel and sudden, hast thou since
:urpled thy nail in blood o$ innocence?
Wherein could this $lea &uilty be,
-*cept in that drop which it suck3d $rom thee?
8et thou triumph3st, and say3st that thou
(ind3st not thysel$ nor me the weaker now%
3Tis true # then learn how $alse $ears be #
2ust so much honour, when thou yield3st to me,
Will waste, as this $lea3s death took li$e $rom thee%
THE SUN RISING.
by John Donne
BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through !ndos, "nd through #urt"!ns, #"ll on us $
%ust to thy &ot!ons lo'ers( se"sons run $
S"u#y )ed"nt!# ret#h, go #h!de
*"te s#hool+boys "nd sour )rent!#es,
Go tell #ourt+hunts&en th"t the ,!ng !ll r!de,
-"ll #ountry "nts to h"r'est o.#es /
*o'e, "ll "l!,e, no se"son ,nos nor #l!&e,
Nor hours, d"ys, &onths, h!#h "re the r"gs of t!&e.
Thy be"&s so re'erend, "nd strong
Why shouldst thou th!n, $
I #ould e#l!)se "nd #loud the& !th " !n,,
But th"t I ould not lose her s!ght so long.
If her eyes h"'e not bl!nded th!ne,
*oo,, "nd to+&orro l"te tell &e,
Whether both th( Ind!"s of s)!#e "nd &!ne
Be here thou left(st the&, or l!e here !th &e.
0s, for those ,!ngs ho& thou s"(st yesterd"y,
0nd thou sh"lt he"r, 10ll here !n one bed l"y.1
She(s "ll st"tes, "nd "ll )r!n#es I /
Noth!ng else !s /
2r!n#es do but )l"y us / #o&)"red to th!s,
0ll honour(s &!&!#, "ll e"lth "l#he&y.
Thou, Sun, "rt h"lf "s h"))y "s e,
In th"t the orld(s #ontr"#ted thus /
Th!ne "ge "s,s e"se, "nd s!n#e thy dut!es be
To "r& the orld, th"t(s done !n "r&!ng us.
Sh!ne here to us, "nd thou "rt e'eryhere /
Th!s bed thy #enter !s, these "lls thy s)here.