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John Donne

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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.


— John Donne


#love #beauty

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.


— John Donne


#built #dies #love #soon

This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts Make of so noble individual parts One fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.


— John Donne


#marriage #union #art

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.


— John Donne


#faith #faith

...but come bad chance And wee joyne to it our strength And wee teach it art and length It selfe o'er us to advance.


— John Donne


#art

Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.


— John Donne


#art

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love


— John Donne


#love

Του κάθε ανθρώπου ο θάνατος, εμένα λιγοστεύει.


— John Donne


#death

But, O alas! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear?


— John Donne


#love

O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.


— John Donne


#crisis-of-faith #religion #faith






About John Donne

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Did you know about John Donne?

During this time Donne wrote but did not publish Biathanatos his defence of suicide. During his convalescence he wrote a series of meditations and prayers on health pain and sickness that were publiJohn Donned as a book in 1624 under the title of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. Legacy
Donne is commemorated as a priest in the calendar of the Church of England and in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on 31 March.

In 1615 he became an Anglican priest although he did not want to take Anglican orders. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits. He also served as a member of parliament in 1601 and in 1614.

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