John Donne. 1896. The Poems of John Donne

Verse > John Donne > The Poems of John Donne

And therefore what thou wert, and who, / I bid love ask, and now / That it assume thy body, I allow, / And fix itself in thy lips, eyes, and brow.

—Air and Angels, ll. 11–14.

John
Donne

The Poems of John Donne

Edited by E. K. Chambers

With an Introduction by George Saintsbury

This expertly edited two-volume edition of the master of metaphysical poetry features modernized spellings and extensive notes.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record Preface Introduction Bibliographical Note

LONDON: LAWRENCE & BULLEN, 1896
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2012

The Printer to the Understanders To The Right Honourable William Lord Craven Hexastichon Bibliopolae Hexastichon ad Bibliopolam To John Donne Songs and Sonnets The Flea The Good-Morrow Song: Go and catch a falling star Woman’s Constancy The Undertaking The Sun Rising The Indifferent Love’s Usury The Canonization The Triple Fool Lovers’ Infiniteness Song: Sweetest love, I do not go The Legacy A Fever Air and Angels Break of Day [Another of the same] The Anniversary A Valediction of my Name, in the Window Twickenham Garden Valediction to his Book Community Love’s Growth Love’s Exchange Confined Love The Dream A Valediction of Weeping Love’s Alchemy The Curse The Message A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, being the Shortest Day Witchcraft by a Picture The Bait The Apparition The Broken Heart A Valediction Forbidding Mourning The Ecstacy Love’s Deity Love’s Diet The Will The Funeral The Blossom The Primrose The Relic The Damp The Dissolution A Jet Ring Sent Negative Love The Prohibition The Expiration The Computation The Paradox Song: Soul’s joy, now I am gone Farewell to Love A Lecture upon the Shadow A Dialogue between Sir Henry Wotton and Mr. Donne The Token Self-love Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs On the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine Eclogue: at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn Elegies I. Jealousy II. The Anagram III. Change IV. The Perfume V. His Picture VI. “O, let me not serve so, as those men serve” VII. “Nature’s lay idiot, I taught thee to love” VIII. The Comparison IX. The Autumnal X. The Dream XI. The Bracelet XII. “Come, Fates; I fear you not!” XIII. His Parting from Her XIV. Julia XV. A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife XVI. The Expostulation XVII. Elegy on his Mistress XVIII. “The heavens rejoice in motion” XIX. “Whoever loves, if he do not propose” XX. To his Mistress Going to Bed Divine Poems To the E[arl] of D[oncaster], with Six Holy Sonnets 1. La Corona 2. Annunciation 3. Nativity 4. Temple 5. Crucifying 6. Resurrection 7. Ascension To the Lady Magdalen Herbert Holy Sonnets I. “Thou hast made me, and shall Thy work decay?” II. “As due by many titles I resign” III. “O! might those sighs and tears return again” IV. “O, my black soul, now thou art summoned” V. “I am a little world made cunningly” VI. “This is my play’s last scene; here heavens appoint” VII. “At the round earth’s imagined comers blow” VIII. “If faithful souls be alike glorified” IX. “If poisonous minerals, and if that tree” X. “Death, be not proud, though some have called thee” XI. “Spit in my face, you Jews, and pierce my side” XII. “Why are we by all creatures waited on?” XIII. “What if this present were the world’s last night?” XIV. “Batter my heart, three-person’d God” XV. “Wilt thou love God as He thee?” XVI. “Father, part of His double interest” The Cross Resurrection, Imperfect The Annunciation and Passion Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward A Litany Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, His Sister Ode: Vengeance will Sit above our Faults To Mr. Tilman after he had Taken Orders A Hymn to Christ The Lamentations of Jeremy Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness A Hymn to God the Father To George Herbert A Sheaf of Snakes Used heretofore to be my Seal Translated out of Gazæus Notes to Volume I. Letters to Several Personages To Mr. Christopher Brooke: The Storm To Mr. Christopher Brooke: The Calm To Sir Henry Wotton To Sir Henry Goodyere To Mr. Rowland Woodward To Sir Henry Wotton To the Countess of Bedford To the Countess of Bedford To Sir Edward Herbert To the Countess of Bedford To the Countess of Bedford, on New Year’s Day To the Countess of Huntingdon To M[r]. I[zaak] W[alton] To M[r]. T. W. To M[r]. T. W. 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[r]. I. L. To M[r]. I. P. To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going Ambassador to Venice To M[rs]. M[agdalen] H[erbert] To the Countess of Bedford To the Countess of Huntingdon To the Countess of Bedford A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mistress Essex Rich, from Amiens To the Countess of Salisbury To the Lady Bedford Sappho to Philænis To Ben Jonson To Sir Tho. Rowe De Libro cum mutuaretur: Doctissimo Amicissimoque v. D. D. Andrews Commendatory Verses Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat’s Crudities Amicissimo et meritissimo Benj: Jonson: in Volponem Epicedes and Obsequies upon the Death of Sundry Personages Elegy upon the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry Obsequies of the Lord Harrington Elegy on the Lady Markham Elegy on Mistress Boulstred Elegy on Mistress Boulstred Death Elegy on the L[ord] C[hancellor] A Hymn to the Saints, and to Marquis Hamilton Elegy on Himself Elegy An Anatomy of the World The First Anniversary To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy: [By Joseph Hall] An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary A Funeral Elegy The Second Anniversary The Harbinger to the Progress: [By Joseph Hall] An Anatomy of the World; or, the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary The Progress of the Soul Epistle The Progress of the Soul: First Song Satires I. “Away, thou changeling motley humourist” II. “Sir, though—I thank God for it—I do hate” III. Of Religion IV. “Well; I may now receive, and die” V. “Thou shalt not laugh in this leaf, Muse” VI. “Men write that love and reason disagree” VII. To Sir Nicholas Smyth Epigrams Notes to Volume II. Appendices A. Doubtful Poems Absence Love’s War On a Flea on his Mistress’s Bosom The Portrait Love-Sonnet (I.) Love-Sonnet (II.) A Warning To the Young Gentlewomen Believe your Glass Fortune never Fails To Mrs. Boulstred To a Painted Lady Love’s Power Love and Reason To a Lady of a Dark Complexion Borrowing Supping Hours The Smith The Lady and her Viol A Paradox Sun, Begone If She Deride Love and Wit Dr. Donne’s Farewell to the World Notes to Doubtful Poems B. Poems hitherto Uncollected [To the Blessed Virgin Mary] To my Lord of Pembroke Of a Lady in the Black Mask A Letter written by Sir H[enry] G[oodyere] and J[ohn] D[onne], alternis vicibus To the Author [Thomas Coryat] In Eundem Macaronicum On Friendship The Constant Lover [An Ideal] The Lie [True Love] Notes to Poems hitherto Uncollected C. Spurious Poems D. The “Sheaf of Epigrams” of 1652 E. Ignatius his Conclave F. Lines Introductory to Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.

Shakespeare · Bible · Saints · Anatomy · Harvard Classics · Lit. History · Quotations · Poetry