Love

The Computation.

by John Donne 1572–1631

Love

FOr the first twenty yeares, since yesterday,
I scarce beleev'd, thou could'st be gone away,
For forty more, I fed on favours past,
And forty'on hopes, that thou would'st, they might last.
Teares drown'd one hundred, and sighes blew out two,
A thousand, I did neither thinke, nor doe.
Or not divide, all being one thought of you;
Or in a thousand more, forgot that too.
Yet call not this long life; But thinke that I
Am, by being dead, Immortall; Can ghosts die?

MLA

Donne, John. “The Computation.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/donne/145/.

Chicago

Donne, John. “The Computation.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/donne/145/.

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