| John Donne (1572–1631). The Poems of John Donne. 1896. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | Lovers’ Infiniteness |
| | | IF yet I have not all thy love, | |
| Dear, I shall never have it all; | |
| I cannot breathe one other sigh, to move, | |
| Nor can intreat one other tear to fall; | |
| And all my treasure, which should purchase thee, | 5 |
| Sighs, tears, and oaths, and letters I have spent; | |
| Yet no more can be due to me, | |
| Than at the bargain made was meant. | |
| If then thy gift of love were 1 partial, | |
| That some to me, some should to others fall, | 10 |
| Dear, I shall never have thee all. 2 | |
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| Or if then thou gavest 3 me all, | |
| All was but all, which thou hadst then; | |
| But if in thy heart since there be or shall | |
| New love created be by other men, | 15 |
| Which have their stocks entire, and can in tears, | |
| In sighs, in oaths, and letters, 4 outbid me, | |
| This new love may beget new fears, | |
| For this love was not vow’d by thee. | |
| And yet it was, thy gift being general; | 20 |
| The ground, thy heart, is mine; 5 what ever shall | |
| Grow there, dear, I should have it all. | |
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| Yet I would not have all yet. | |
| He that hath all can have no more; | |
| And since my love doth every day admit | 25 |
| New growth, thou shouldst have new rewards in store; | |
| Thou canst not every day give me thy heart, | |
| If thou canst give it, then thou never gavest it; | |
| Love’s riddles are, that though thy heart depart, | |
| It stays at home, and thou with losing savest it; | 30 |
| But we will have 6 a way more liberal, | |
| Than changing hearts, to join them; 7 so we shall | |
| Be one, and one another’s all. | |
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