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“The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.”

John Donne

Meditation 12
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

“So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss,
Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.”

John Donne

The Expiration, stanza 1

“That subtle knot which makes us man:
So must pure lovers' souls descend
T' affections, and to faculties,
Which sense may reach and apprehend,
Else a great Prince in prison lies.”

John Donne

The Extasy, line 64

“One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”

John Donne book Holy Sonnets

No. 10, line 13
Holy Sonnets (1633)

“Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all.”

John Donne

Meditation 7
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

“Twice and thrice had I loved thee,
Before I knew thy face or name.”

John Donne

Air and Angels, stanza 1

“And then as the other world produces serpents, and vipers, malignant, and venomous creatures, and worms, and caterpillars, that endeavour to devour that world produces them, and monsters compiled and complicated of diverse parents, and kinds, so this world, ourselves produces all these in us, in producing diseases and sicknesses of all those sorts; venomous and infectious diseases, feeding and consuming diseases…”

John Donne

IV. Mediscque Vocatur; The physician is sent for.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

“I have done one braver thing
Than all the Worthies did;
And yet a braver thence doth spring,
Which is to keep that hid.”

John Donne

The Undertaking, stanza 1

“The world's whole sap is sunk:
The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk,
Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk,
Dead and interred; yet all these seem to laugh,
Compared with me, who am their epitaph.”

John Donne

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, stanza 1

“He was the Word, that spake it:
He took the bread and brake it;
And what that Word did make it,
I do believe and take it.”

John Donne

Divine Poems, "On the Sacrament"; attributed by many writers to Elizabeth I. It is not in the original edition of Donne, but first appears in the edition of 1654, p. 352.
Disputed

“On a huge hill, Cragged and steep, Truth stands,
and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe;
And what the hills suddenness resists, winne so;
Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest,
for none can worke in that night.”

John Donne

Satyre III (c. 1598)

“Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell;
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke.”

John Donne book Holy Sonnets

No. 10, line 9
Holy Sonnets (1633)

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

John Donne

Love's Deity, stanza 3

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

John Donne book Holy Sonnets

No. 7, line 6
Holy Sonnets (1633)

“It is too little to call man a little world, except God, man is a diminutive to nothing. Man consists of more pieces, more parts, than the world; than the world doth, nay, than the world is.”

John Donne

IV. Mediscque Vocatur The physician is sent for
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

“Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be?
O wilt thou therefore rise from me?
Why should we rise, because 'tis light?
Did we lie down, because 'twas night?
Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither
Should in despite of light keep us together.”

John Donne

Break of Day, stanza 1

“Whilst my physicians by their love are grown
Cosmographers, and their map, who lie
Flat on this bed.”

John Donne

Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness, stanza 2

“And swear
No where
Lives a woman true and fair.
If thou find'st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet,
Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False, ere I come, to two, or three.”

John Donne

Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star), stanzas 2-3

“Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.”

John Donne

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, stanza 4