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Dr. John Donne

1573 AD — 1631 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Historical source references

Divine Poems
Funeral Elegies
Elegy 8
The Triple Fool
Travel · anthology attribution: Donne
Printed citation: Donne
Page 33 · printed citation: Donne · subject: APOSTLES
Page 242 · printed citation: Donne · subject: Sleep

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01c. 1602 AD

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.

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02c. 1602 AD

We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.

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03c. 1602 AD

She and comparisons are odious.

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04c. 1602 AD

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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05Undated

To roam giddily, and be everywhere but at home, such freedom doth a banishment become.

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06Undated

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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07Undated

For good and evil must in our actions meet; / Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

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08Undated

Who is sure he hath a soul, unless / It see and judge, and follow worthiness, / And by deeds praise it? He who doth not this / May lodge an inmate soul, but 'tis not his.

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09Undated

When because faith is in too low degree, I thought it some apostleship in me, To speak things which by faith alone I see.

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10Undated

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all offices of death, except to kill.

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Dr. John Donne

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