Donne

Famous quotes containing the word donne:

    This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint
    My pilgrimages last mile; and my race
    Idly, yet quickly runne, hath this last pace,
    My spans last inch, my minutes last point,
    And gluttonous death, will instantly unjoynt
    My body, and soule, and I shall sleepe a space,
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    Sweetest love, I do not go
    For weariness of thee,
    Nor in hope the world can show
    A fitter love for me;
    But since that I
    Must die at last, ‘tis best
    To use myself in jest
    Thus by feigned deaths to die.
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost
    Who died before the god of love was born.
    I cannot think that he who then loved most,
    Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn.
    —John Donne (1572–1631)