Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
JOHN DONNELove was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
JOHN DONNEGod is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
JOHN DONNENature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNEDespair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNEOur critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNEI wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
JOHN DONNEHow much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNEI observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNEDoth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
JOHN DONNETake me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNEBe thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNEFull nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNEO Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNENothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
JOHN DONNEI count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
JOHN DONNE