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
Donne, John
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
[Breake of day, _1633-69_, _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_
_no title or_ Sonnet, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_,
_O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96:_ A Songe. _A25_]
[1 day;] day, _1633_]
[5 in spight of _1633-39_, _1669_, _A25_, _JC_, _S96:_ in
dispight _1650-54_, _A18_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_,
_N_, _S_, _TC_]
[6 in despight _1633_, _1650-69:_ in spight _1635-39_
keepe] holde _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _S96_, _TC_]
[9 were] is _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_ _TC_]
[11 I lov'd] I love _JC_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]
[12 him, that had them _1633-54_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _S:_ him
that had them (_or_ it) _A25_, _B_, _C_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_,
_TC:_ her, that had them, _1669:_ her that hath them _B_, _JC_
(it), _S96_]
[15 foule,] foole, _H40_]
[18 as when ... doth _1633_, _1669_, _A25_, _C_, _D_, _H40_,
_H49_, _Lec_, _S_, _S96:_ as if ... should _A18_, _B_, _JC_,
_L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC:_ as when ... should _1635-54_]
_The Anniversarie._
All Kings, and all their favorites,
All glory of honors, beauties, wits,
The Sun it selfe, which makes times, as they passe,
Is elder by a yeare, now, then it was
When thou and I first one another saw: 5
All other things, to their destruction draw,
Only our love hath no decay;
This, no to morrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs from us away,
But truly keepes his first, last, everlasting day. 10
Two graves must hide thine and my coarse,
If one might, death were no divorce.
Alas, as well as other Princes, wee,
(Who Prince enough in one another bee,)
Must leave at last in death, these eyes, and eares, 15
Oft fed with true oathes, and with sweet salt teares;
But soules where nothing dwells but love
(All other thoughts being inmates) then shall prove
This, or a love increased there above,
When bodies to their graves, soules from their graves remove. 20
And then wee shall be throughly blest,
But wee no more, then all the rest;
Here upon earth, we'are Kings, and none but wee
Can be such Kings, nor of such subjects bee.
Who is so safe as wee? where none can doe 25
Treason to us, except one of us two.
True and false feares let us refraine,
Let us love nobly, and live, and adde againe
Yeares and yeares unto yeares, till we attaine
To write threescore: this is the second of our raigne. 30
[The Anniversarie. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ _no
title_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_,
_S:_ Ad Liviam. _S96_]
[3 times, as they passe, _1633_, _1669_ (_which brackets_
which ... pass), _MSS.:_ times, as these pass, _1635-54:_
time, as they pass, _Chambers, who attributes to 1633, 1669_]
[12 divorce. _Ed:_ divorce, _1633-69_]
[17 love _Ed:_ love; _1633-69_]
[20 to their graves] to their grave _1635-39_]
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