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The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2): Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous ManuscriptsDonne, John

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The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2): Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts

Name: The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2): Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts
Author: Donne, John

Donne, John

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
  Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till then?
  But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly?
  Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?
  T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee.                     5
  If ever any beauty I did see,
  Which I desir'd, and got, t'was but a dreame of thee.

  And now good morrow to our waking soules,
  Which watch not one another out of feare;
  For love, all love of other sights controules,                    10
  And makes one little roome, an every where.
  Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
  Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne,
  Let us possesse one world, each hath one, and is one.

  My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares,                     15
  And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest,
  Where can we finde two better hemispheares
  Without sharpe North, without declining West?
  What ever dyes, was not mixt equally;
  If our two loves be one, or, thou and I                           20
  Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.


    [SONGS AND SONETS. _1635-69: no division into sections, 1633_]

    [The good-morrow. _1633-69_, _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_
    _no title_, _A25_, _B_, _C_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_,
    _O'F_, _P_, _S:_ Elegie. _S96_]

    [2 lov'd? _1639-69:_ lov'd, _1633-35_]

    [3 countrey pleasures, childishly? _1633-54_, _D_, _H40_,
    _H49_, _Lec:_ childish pleasures seelily? _1669_, _A18_,
    _A25_, _B_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_]

    [4 snorted _1633-54_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _S96:_
    slumbred _1669_, _A18_, _A25_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TC_
    seaven sleepers _1633:_ seven-sleepers _1635-69_]

    [5 this,] as _1669_]

    [10 For _1633-69_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec:_ But _rest of
    MSS_.]

    [13 to other, worlds on _1633-54:_ to other worlds our _1669:_
    to others, worlds on _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _and other MSS_.]

    [14 one world _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ our world _rest of
    MSS_.]

    [17 better _1633_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec:_ fitter _1635-69_,
    _and rest of MSS_.]

    [19 was not] is not _1669_]

    [20-1 or, thou and I ... can die. _1633_, _D_, _H40_,
    _H49_, _Lec:_ or, thou and I ... can slacken, ... can die.
    _Chambers:_

                                    both thou and I
      Love just alike in all, none of these loves can die.

    _1635-69_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P:_
                                    or thou and I
      Love just alike in all, none of these loves can die.

    _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _L74_, _S96_, _TC_

                                    As thou and I _&c._

    _H40:_

                                    And thou and I _&c._

    _S_]




_Song._

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The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2): Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts

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