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“Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!”

No. 48, preached upon the Day of St. Paul's Conversion, January 25, 1629
LXXX Sermons (1640)

“When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.”

No. 76 http://books.google.com/books?id=eypXAAAAYAAJ&q=%22When+God's+hand+is+bent+to+strike+it+is+a+fearful+thing+to+fall+into+the+hands+of+the+living+God+but+to+fall+out+of+the+hands+of+the+living+God+is+a+horror+beyond+our+expression+beyond+our+imagination%22&pg=PA386#v=onepage, preached at Sion to The Earl of Carlisle and company (c. 1622) <br class="br">LXXX Sermons (1640)

“The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I
Abjure my so much loved variety.”

No. 17, Variety, line 1
Elegies

“For I am every dead thing,
In whom love wrought new alchemy.
For his art did express
A quintessence even from nothingness,
From dull privations, and lean emptiness
He ruined me, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.”

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, stanza 2

“I observe the physician, with the same diligence, as he the disease; I see he fears, and I fear with him…”

VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

“And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?”

No. 54, preached to the King at Whitehall, April 5, 1628
LXXX Sermons (1640)

“Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be,
To taste whole joys.”

John Donne book Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed

No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 33
Elegies

“Age is a sicknesse, and Youth is an ambush.”

Meditation 7
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

“I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.”

Love's Deity, stanza 1

“Who are a little wise, the best fools be.”

The Triple Fool, stanza 2

“When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.”

XXVI Sermons, No. 26, Death's Duel, last sermon, February 15, 1631

“Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?”

The Sun Rising, stanza 1

“What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?”

No. 76, preached to the Earl of Carlisle, c. autumn 1622
LXXX Sermons (1640)

“But he who loveliness within
Hath found, all outward loathes,
For he who color loves, and skin,
Loves but their oldest clothes.”

The Undertaking, stanza 4

“And new philosophy calls all in doubt,
The element of fire is quite put out;
The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit,
Can well direct him where to look for it.
And freely men confess that this world's spent,
When in the planets, and the firmament
They seek so many new; then see that this
Is crumbled out again to his atomies.
'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone;
All just supply, and all relation:
Prince, subject, Father, Son, are things forgot.”

An Anatomy of the World, The First Anniversary

“O my America! my new-found land.”

John Donne book Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed

No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 27
Elegies

“And dare love that, and say so too,
And forget the He and She.”

The Undertaking, stanza 5

“All Kings, and all their favorites,
All glory of honors, beauties, wits
The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass,
Is elder by a year, now, than it was
When thou and I first one another saw:
All other things, to their destruction draw,
Only our love hath no decay;
This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running, it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.”

The Anniversary, stanza 1

“When I died last, and dear, I die
As often as from thee I go.”

The Legacy, stanza 1

“I know not what fear is, nor I know not what it is that I fear now; I fear not the hastening of my death, and yet I do fear the increase of the disease… my weakness is from nature, who hath but her measure, my strength is from God, who possesses and distributes infinitely.”

VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)