Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE
JOHN DONNE
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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John DonneJohn Donne Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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John DonneJohn Donne And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
John DonneJohn Donne So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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John DonneJohn Donne The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
John DonneJohn Donne Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
John DonneJohn Donne I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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John DonneJohn Donne Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John DonneJohn Donne Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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