Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNEWithout outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNELove is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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 DONNEFor God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNESo in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNEArt is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEWhat if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNEAs soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNEAsk not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNEI wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
JOHN DONNESleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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 DONNEThy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
JOHN DONNEFor love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
JOHN DONNELove, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE