Metaphysical & Cavalier
John Donne
John Donne (1572–1631) was an English poet and cleric, the foremost of the metaphysical poets.
His verse — by turns erotic, witty, and devout — moved from the love poems of his youth to the religious sonnets of his years as Dean of St Paul's.
Poems (216)
- THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE.
- ANNVNCIATION.
- NATIVITIE.
- TEMPLE.
- CRVCIFYING.
- RESVRRECTION.
- ASCENTION.
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- Pyramus and Thisbe.
- Niobe.
- A burnt ship.
- Fall of a wall.
- A lame begger.
- A selfe accuser.
- A licentious person.
- Antiquary.
- Disinherited.
- Phryne.
- An obscure writer.
- Raderus.
- Mercurlus Gallo-Belgicus.
- Elegie II.
- Elegie III.
- Elegie IV.
- Elegie V.
- Elegie VI.
- Elegie VII.
- Elegie VIII.
- THE STORME.
- THE CALME.
- To Sr Henry Wotton.
- The Crosse.
- Elegie on the Lady Marckham.
- Elegie on Mris Boulstred.
- To Sr Henry Goodyere.
- To Mr Rowland Woodward.
- To Sr Henry Wootton.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- To Sr Edward Herbert. at Iulyers.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- To the Countesse of Huntingdon.
- To M. I. W.
- To M. T. W.
- To M. T. W.
- To M. C. B.
- To M. S. B.
- To M. B. B.
- To M. R. W.
- To M. I. L.
- To M. I. P.
- To E. of D. with six holy Sonnets.
- To Sir H. W. at his going Ambassador to Venice.
- To M. M. H.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens.
- To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614.
- An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day.
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- VII:
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- Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne.
- Obsequies to the Lord Harringtons brother.
- Elegie.
- Elegie.
- Elegie.
- Elegie on Prince Henry.
- Psalme 137.
- Resurrection, imperfect.
- An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton.
- An Epitaph upon Shakespeare.
- Sapho to Philaenis.
- The Annuntiation and Passion.
- Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward.
- THE LITANIE.
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- A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day.
- Witchcraft by a picture.
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- The Apparition.
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- The good-morrow.
- Song.
- Womans constancy.
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- The Sunne Rising.
- The Indifferent.
- Loves Vsury.
- The Canonization.
- The triple Foole.
- Lovers infinitenesse.
- Song.
- The Legacie.
- A Feaver.
- Aire and Angels.
- Breake of day.
- The Anniversarie.
- A Valediction of my name, in the window.
- Twicknam garden.
- Valediction to his booke.
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- Loves growth.
- Loves exchange.
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- The Dreame.
- A Valediction of weeping.
- Loves Alchymie.
- The Flea.
- The Curse.
- An Anatomy of the World.
- A Funerall ELEGIE.
- OF THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE.
- The Extasie.
- Loves Deitie.
- Loves diet.
- The Will.
- The Funerall.
- The Blossome.
- The Primrose.
- The Relique.
- The Dampe.
- The Dissolution.
- A Ieat King sent
- Negative love.
- The Prohibition.
- The Expiration.
- The Computation.
- Elegie.
- Elegie to the Lady Bedford.
- Elegie.
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- A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany.
- CHAP. II.
- Chap. III.
- CAP. IV.
- CAP. V.
- Satyre II.
- Satyre III.
- Satyre IIII.
- Satyre V.
- A Hymne to God the Father:
- To the deceased Author, Upon the Promiscuous printing of his Poems, the Looser sort, with the Religious.
- On the death of Dr DONNE.
- On Doctor Donne, By Dr C. B. of O.
- An Elegie upon the incomparable Dr DONNE.
- An Elegie upon Dr Donne.
- Sonnet: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay
- Sonnet: As due by many titles, I resign
- Sonnet: Oh! might these sighs and tears return again
- Sonnet: I am a little world, made cunningly
- Sonnet: If faithful souls be alike glorified
- Absence, Hear Thou My Protestation
- The broken heart
- A Valediction: forbidding mourning
- Farewell to Love
- A Lecture upon the Shadow
- Sonnet. The Token
- Selfe Love
- Hero and Leander
- Cales and Guyana
- Sir Iohn Wingefield
- The Lier
- Elegie I: Iealosie
- Elegie XI: The Bracelet
- Elegie XII: His parting from her
- Elegie XIII: Iulia
- Elegie XIV: A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife
- Elegie XVI: On his Mistris
- Elegie XVII: Variety
- Elegie XVIII: Loves Progress
- Elegie XIX: Going to Bed
- Elegie XX: Loves Warre
- Eclogue. 1613. December 26
- Satyre I
- Vpon Mr. Thomas Coryats Crudities
- H: W: in Hiber: belligeranti
- To Mr R. W. (Zealously my Muse)
- To Mr R. W. (Muse not that by thy mind)
- To Mr E. G. (Even as lame things)
- To Mr R. W. (Kindly I envy)
- To the praise of the dead, and the Anatomie
- The Harbinger to the Progresse
- Epitaph on Himselfe
- Omnibus
- To the Lady Magdalen Herbert: of St. Mary Magdalen
- La Corona: Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise
- Holy Sonnet: Since she whom I lov'd hath payd her last debt
- Holy Sonnet: Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and cleare
- Holy Sonnet: Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet in one
- Vpon the translation of the Psalmes by Sir Philip Sydney, and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sister
- Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne
- To Mr Tilman after he had taken orders
- The Lamentations of Ieremy: Chap. I
- Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse
- A Sheafe of Snakes used heretofore to be my Seal
- Translated out of Gazæus: Vota Amico facta
- Break of Day