Selected Poems

by Donne, John

• ISBN13: 9780486277882
• ISBN10: 0486277887
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-23
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Rich selection of 73 works from the Songs and Sonnets, Elegies, Holy Sonnets and other verse forms by foremost English "metaphysical" poet. Included are "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "To His Mistress Going to Bed," "Death Be Not Proud," "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward," "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" and many more. Note. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.

Table of Contents

Songs and Sonnets
The Good Morrow	1	(1)
Song [``Go, and catch a falling star'']	1	(1)
Woman's Constancy	2	(1)
The Undertaking	3	(1)
The Sun Rising	4	(1)
The Indifferent	5	(1)
The Canonization	5	(2)
The Triple Fool	7	(1)
Song [``Sweetest love, I do not go'']	7	(2)
The Legacy	9	(1)
A Fever	9	(1)
Air and Angels	10	(1)
Break of Day	11	(1)
The Anniversary	12	(1)
A Valediction: of My Name, in the Window	13	(2)
Twickenham Garden	15	(1)
A Valediction: of Weeping	15	(1)
The Flea	16	(1)
The Curse	17	(1)
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day	18	(1)
Witchcraft by a Picture	19	(1)
The Bait	20	(1)
The Apparition	21	(1)
The Broken Heart	21	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	22	(1)
The Ecstasy	23	(2)
Love's Deity	25	(1)
The Funeral	26	(1)
The Blossom	27	(1)
The Relic	28	(1)
A Lecture upon the Shadow	29	(1)
Epigrams
A Burnt Ship	30	(1)
Fall of a Wall	30	(1)
Cales and Guiana	31	(1)
An Obscure Writer	31	(1)
The Liar	31	(1)
Elegies
Elegy I: Jealousy	31	(1)
Elegy II: The Anagram	32	(2)
Elegy V: His Picture	34	(1)
Elegy IX: The Autumnal	34	(2)
Elegy XVI: On His Mistress	36	(1)
Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed	37	(2)
Epithalamions
An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine Being Married on St. Valentine's Day	39	(3)
Satires
Satire I [``Away thou fondling motley humorist'']	42	(3)
Satire III [``Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids'']	45	(3)
Verse Letters
To Mr. Christopher Brooke	48	(3)
The Storm	48	(2)
The Calm	50	(1)
To Mr. Rowland Woodward [``Like one who in her third widowhood doth profess'']	51	(1)
To the Countess of Bedford on New Year's Day	52	(2)
Epicedes and Obsequies
Elegy on the Lady Markham	54	(2)
Divine Poems
La Corona	56	(3)
Holy Sonnets	59	(7)
[``Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?'']	59	(1)
[``As due by many titles I resign'']	59	(1)
[``O might those sighs and tears return again'']	60	(1)
[``Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned'']	60	(1)
[``I am a little world made cunningly'']	61	(1)
[``This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint'']	61	(1)
[``At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'']	61	(1)
[``If faithful souls be alike glorified'']	62	(1)
[``If poisonous minerals, and if that tree'']	62	(1)
[``Death be not proud, though some have called thee'']	62	(1)
[``Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side'']	63	(1)
[``Why are we by all creatures waited on?'']	63	(1)
[``What if this present were the world's last night?'']	64	(1)
[``Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you'']	64	(1)
[``Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest'']	64	(1)
[``Father, part of his double interest'']	65	(1)
[``Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt'']	65	(1)
[``Show me dear Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear'']	65	(1)
[``Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one'']	66	(1)
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward	66	(2)
A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany	68	(1)
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	69	(1)
A Hymn to God the Father	70	(1)
Alphabetical List of Titles	71	(4)
Alphabetical List of First Lines	75