I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNEAsk not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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 DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNEFestive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNEBe more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEOur two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
JOHN DONNEI shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
JOHN DONNEDeath is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNEWe give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNEDeath be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
JOHN DONNEFor God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNEWhat if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNEGod affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNEAs soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE