Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEBe more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEOnly our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
JOHN DONNELicence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNESo in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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 DONNEDeath comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNENo man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNEI throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
JOHN DONNEIf ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
JOHN DONNELove built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNEI shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
JOHN DONNEI count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
JOHN DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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 DONNELove, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNEBe thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE