| John Donne (1572–1631). The Poems of John Donne. 1896. | | | | Appendix A. Doubtful Poems | | Love-Sonnet (I.) |
| | | O MADAM, you are of all women true, | |
| Nay virtue’s self, that’s more, for only you | |
| Are that which we imagine to be she; | |
| You, and but you, make virtue here to be; | |
| You, who by binding make us truly free, | 5 |
| Whose only bondman lives in liberty; | |
| You, in which happy word all things are meant | |
| Excepting wickedness and punishment. | |
| You, that are you, which I love more than I, | |
| In whom my soul can rest, yet I not die; | 10 |
| Nay lives, by being there, for that’s his place, | |
| I, but a cabinet that keeps your face | |
| Or model in my heart, for all that’s I | |
| May in your picture live, in you must die. | | | | |
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