John Donne- key quotations for love poems and critic quotes

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not so black as my heart
brittle as her heart
1 of 41
nothing sooner endless, nothing sooner broke
I am cheap
2 of 41
fling me away
yet- the volta
3 of 41
circle this fingers top
I am two fools I know
4 of 41
in whining poetry
But where's that wiseman?
5 of 41
narrow-crooked lanes
sea-water's fretful salt
6 of 41
grief brought to numbers
sing my pain
7 of 41
I which was two fools, do so grow three
who are a little wise, the best fools be
8 of 41
so let us melt
no tear floods
9 of 41
trepidation of the spheres
whose soul is sense
10 of 41
so much refined
like gold to airy-thinness beat
11 of 41
as shift, two compasses are two
thy soul the fixed foot
12 of 41
leans and harkens after it
grows erect
13 of 41
makes me end where I begun
Busy old fool
14 of 41
saucy pedantic wretch
call country
15 of 41
king will ride
rags of time
16 of 41
i could eclipse
indians of spice
17 of 41
princes do but play us
she is all states
18 of 41
all honors mimic
this bed thy centre, these walls they sphere
19 of 41
Here, take my picture
in my heart, where my soul dwells
20 of 41
weather-beaten i come back
My body's a sack of bones
21 of 41
rival fools
doth my worth decay
22 of 41
powdered blue
love less
23 of 41
milk
love's childish state
24 of 41
sun.... elder by a year now
all kings
25 of 41
only our love hath no decay
souls from thy graves removed
26 of 41
death were no divorce
sweet salt tears
27 of 41
none can do treason to us, except one of us two
the second of our reign
28 of 41
inmates
mark
29 of 41
our two bloods mingled be
nor loss of maidenhead
30 of 41
three lives
marriage temple
31 of 41
living walls of jet
clositered
32 of 41
cruel and sudden
blood of innoncence
33 of 41
as this flea's death took life from me
troth
34 of 41
sucked on country pleasures
seven sleepers den
35 of 41
one little room- microcosm
our waking souls
36 of 41
was not mixed equally
where can we find two better hemispheres?
37 of 41
none can die
John carey: love poet and religious supplicant
38 of 41
Stevie Davies, "misoygny graps thwe deep roots into the physche that genrates these poems"
the love poems are, "the dehuminsation of women"
39 of 41
Simon Schama, "Donne came as a rude surprise"- the flea
Donne emplys a geocentric
40 of 41
Richard Gill, "explores a refined and elevated language that souls might use"
G.F Walker, "time was not only a fascination for Donne"
41 of 41

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I am cheap

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nothing sooner endless, nothing sooner broke

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yet- the volta

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I am two fools I know

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But where's that wiseman?

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