Collected Poems of John Donne : Volume 6, The Reader's Library

By Donne, John

Description
A complete and unabridged e-edition of the collected verse of John Donne. Donne, 1572–1631, was born in London, England, and, as evidenced by the verse collected here, is one of the great English language poets and thinkers in modern history illuminating the human condition through a verse marked for its argument, metaphysical conceit, metaphorical illuminations, and deep passions, whether they be focussed on love, God (two of Donne's favorite foci), or some other theme. While his poetry is dense, it is also inspiring, wise, and an essential and vital piece in the evolution of western verse. Volume 6 in The Reader's Library Series. ISBN: 978-1-932023-48-0 https://www.facebook.com/williamralpheditions

Summary
A complete and unabridged e-edition of the collected verse of John Donne.

Excerpt
"Batter my heart, three person’d God..." Batter my heart, three person’d God; for, you As yet but knock, breath, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’rthrow me,’and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurpt Town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but oh, to no end. Reason your Viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captiv’d, and proves weak or untrue, Yet dearly’I love you and would be lov’d fain, But am betroth’d unto your enemy, Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for I Except you’enthral me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Table of Contents
Contents Introduction SONGS AND SONNETS The Flea The Good-Morrow Song ("Goe, and catch a falling starre...") Woman's Constancy The Undertaking The Sun Rising The Indifferent Love's Usury Canonization The Triple Fool Lovers' Infiniteness Song ("Sweetest Love, I doe not goe...") The Legacy A Feaver Air and Angels Breake of Day The Anniversary A Valediction of My Name, in the Window Twicknam Garden Valediction to His Book Community Love's Growth Love's Exchange Confined Love The Dream A Valediction of Weeping Love's Alchymy The Curse The Message A Nocturnal upon St. Lucie's Day Being the Shortest Day Witchcraft by a Picture The Bait The Apparition The Broken Heart A Valediction Forbidding Mourning The Extasie Love's Deity Love's Diet The Will The Funeral The Blossom The Primrose, Being at Mountgomery Castle upon the Hill, on Which It Is Situate The Relique The Damp The Dissolution A Jeat Ring Sent Negative Love The Prohibition The Expiration The Computation The Paradox Farewell to Love A Lecture upon the Shadow EPIGRAMS Epigrams ELEGIES Elegie I Elegie II Elegie III Elegie IV Elegie V Elegie VI Elegie VII Elegie VIII Elegie IX Elegie X Elegie XI Elegie XII Elegie XIII Elegie XIV Elegie XV Elegie XVI Elegie XVII Elegie XVIII To His Mistress Going to Bed EPITHALAMIONS An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine, Being Married on St. Valentines Day Eclogue at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inne SATYRES Satyre I Satyre II Satyre III Satyre IV Satyre V LETTERS TO SEVERAL PERSONAGES The Storme The Calme To Sir Henry Wootton (Sir, More Than Kisses...) To Sir Henry Goodyere To Mr. Rowland Woodward To Sir Henry Wootton (Here's No More Newes than Vertue...) To the Countess of Bedford (Reason Is Our Soul's Left Hand...) To the Countess of Bedford (You Have Refin'd Me...) To Sir Edward Herbert, Now Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Being at the Siege of Julyers To the Countess of Bedford (T'have Written Then, When You Writ...) To the Countess of Bedford On New-Years Day To the Countess of Huntingdon (Man to God's Image; Eve...) To M(r.) I(zaak) W(alton) To M. T. W. (Hast thee harsh verse...) To M. T. W. (Pregnant Again with Th'Old Twins...) Incerto To M(r.) C(hristopher) B(rooke) To M(r.) S(amuel) B(rooke) To M(r.) B(asil) B(rooke) To M(r.) R(owland) W(oodward) To M. I. L. To M. I. P. To the E(arl) of D(oncaster), with Sixe Holy Sonnets To Sir H(enry) W(otton), at His Going Ambassadour to Venice To M(rs.) M(agdalen) H(erbert) To the Countess of Bedford (Honour Is So Sublime Perfection...) To the Countess of Huntingdon (That Unripe Side of Earth...) To the Countess of Bedford Begun in France, but Never Perfected A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs. Essex Riche, from Amyens To the Countess of Salisbury, August, 1614 To the Countess of Bedford (You That Are She...) Sapho to Philænis ANATOMIE OF THE WORLD An Anatomy of the World A Funeral Elegie Of the Progress of the Soul EPICEDES AND OBSEQUIES Elegie on the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Lady Lucy, Countess of Bedford An Elegie on the Lady Markham Elegie on Mistris Boulstred Elegie on His Mistress Elegie On Himself Elegie Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat's Crudities Sonnet: The Token Elegie on the L(ord) C(hancellor) DIVINE POEMS The Progress of the Soul Holy Sonnets Divine Meditations The Cross Resurrection Imperfect An Hymn to the Saints, and to Marquess Hamylton The Annuntiation and Passion Goodfriday, 1613, Riding Westward The Litanie Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sydney, and the Countess of Pembrook His Sister To Mr. Tilman after He Had Taken Orders A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the Most Part According to Tremelius Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness A Hymn to God the Father A POEM IN LATIN To Mr. George Herbert, with One of My Seal, of the Anchor and Christ About the Editor Also from William Ralph Press