The Complete Poetry & Selected Prose of John Donne by Donne, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright John Donne Contents Introduction by Denis Donoghue Poetry

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Dedication to the Edition of 1650

To John Donne To Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with M. Donnes Satyres To John Donne

Songs and Sonets

The Good-Morrow Song. “Goe, and catche a falling starre” Womans Constancy The Undertaking The Sunne Rising The Indifferent Loves Usury The Canonization The Triple Foole Lovers Infinitenesse Song. “Sweetest love, I do not goe” The Legacie A Feaver Aire and Angels Breake of Day The Anniversarie A Valediction: Of My Name, in the Window Twicknam Garden A Valediction: Of the Booke Communitie Loves Growth Loves Exchange Confined Love The Dreame A Valediction: Of Weeping Loves Alchymie The Flea The Curse The Message A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, Being the Shortest Day Witchcraft by a Picture The Baite The Apparition The Broken Heart A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning The Extasie Loves Deitie Loves Diet The Will The Funerall The Blossome The Primrose, Being at Montgomery Castle, Upon the Hill, on Which It Is Situate The Relique The Dampe The Dissolution A Jeat Ring Sent Negative Love The Prohibition The Expiration The Computation The Paradox Farewell to Love A Lecture Upon the Shadow Sonnet. The Token Selfe Love

Elegies and Heroicall Epistle

Elegie I. Jealosie Elegie II. The Anagram Elegie III. Change Elegie IV. The Perfume Elegie V. His Picture Elegie VI. Oh, let mee not serve so Elegie VII. Natures lay Ideot Elegie VIII. The Comparison Elegie IX. The Autumnall Elegie X. The Dreame Elegie XI. The Bracelet Elegie XII. His Parting from Her Elegie XIII. Julia Elegie XIV. A Tale of a Citizen and His Wife Elegie XV. The Expostulation Elegie XVI. On His Mistris Elegie XVII. Variety Elegie XVIII. Loves Progress Elegie XIX. To His Mistris Going to Bed Elegie XX. Loves Warre Heroicall Epistle. Sapho to Philænis

Epigrams

Hero And Leander Pyramus and Thisbe Niobe A Burnt Ship Fall of a Wall A Lame Begger Cales and Guyana Sir John Wingefield A Selfe Accuser A Licentious Person Antiquary Disinherited Phryne An Obscure Writer Klockius Raderus Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus Ralphius The Lier

Satyres

Satyre I. Away thou fondling motley humorist Satyre II. Sir; though (I thanke God for it) I do hate Satyre III. Kinde pitty chokes my spleene Satyre IV. Well; I may now receive, and die Satyre V. Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse Upon Mr. Thomas Coryats Crudities In Eundem Macaronicon

Infinitati Sacrum (Metempsychosis)

Epistle The Progresse of the Soule

Verse Letters to Severall Personages

The Storme. To Mr. Christopher Brooke The Calme To Sir Henry Wotton. “Sir, more than kisses” To Sir Henry Wootton. “Here’s no more newes, than vertue” Henrico Wottoni In Hibernia Belligeranti. “Went you to conquer?” To Mr. T. W. [Thomas Woodward?] “All haile sweet Poët” To Mr. T. W. [Thomas Woodward] “Haste thee harsh verse” To Mr. T. W. [Thomas Woodward] “Pregnant again with th’old twins Hope, and Feare” To Mr. T. W. [Thomas Woodward] “At once, from hence” To Mr. R. W. [Rowland Woodward] “Zealously my Muse” To Mr. R. W. [Rowland Woodward] “Muse not that by thy Mind” To Mr. C. B. [Christopher Brooke] “Thy friend, whom thy deserts” To Mr. E. G. [Edward Guilpin?] “Even as lame things thirst” To Mr. R. W. [Rowland Woodward] “If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be” 143 To Mr. R. W. [Rowland Woodward] “Kindly I envy thy songs perfection” To Mr. S. B. [Samuel Brooke] “O thou which to search out the secret parts” To Mr. I. L. “Of that short Roll of friends” To Mr. I. L. “Blest are your North parts” To Mr. B. B. “Is not thy sacred hunger of science” To the Countesse of Huntingdon. “That unripe side of earth” To Sir H[enry] W[otton] At His Going Ambassador to Venice. “After those reverend papers” To Mrs. M. H. [Magdalen Herbert] “Mad paper stay” To Sir Henry Goodyere. “Who makes the Past” To Mr. Rowland Woodward. “Like one who’in her third widdowhood” To the Countesse of Bedford. “Reason is our Soules left hand” To the Countesse of Bedford. “You have refin’d mee” To Sir Edward Herbert at Julyers. “Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee” To the Countesse of Bedford. “T’have written then, when you writ” To the Countesse of Bedford. On New-yeares day. “This twilight of two yeares” To the Lady Bedford. “You that are she” To the Countesse of Bedford. “Honour is so sublime perfection” To the Countesse of Bedford. Begun in France but never perfected. “Though I be dead, and buried” A Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche, From Amyens. “Here where by All All Saints invoked are” To the Countesse of Huntingdon. “Man to Gods image, Eve, to mans was made” To the Countesse of Salisbury. August, 1614. “Faire, great, and good”

Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs

Epithalamion Made at Lincolnes Inne An Epithalamion, or Mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines Day Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 Epithalamion

A Funerall Elegie and the First and Second Anniversaries

A Funerall Elegie To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomie An Anatomie of the World—The First Anniversary The Harbinger to the Progresse Of the Progresse of the Soule—The Second Anniversary

Epicedes and Obsequies Upon the Deaths of Sundry Personages and Epitaphs

Elegie on the L. C. [Lord Chamberlain] Elegie on the Lady Marckham Elegie on Mistris Boulstred Elegie. Death Elegie on the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford An Hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton

Epitaphs

Epitaph on Himselfe Omnibus

Divine Poems

To E. of D. [The Earl of Dorset?] With Six Holy Sonnets To the Lady Magdalen Herbert: Of St. Mary Magdalen Holy Sonnets

La Corona Annunciation Nativitie Temple Crucifying Resurrection Ascention

The Crosse Resurrection, Imperfect Upon the Annuntiation and Passion Falling upon One Day. 1608 The Litanie Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward Holy Sonnets

I. Thou hast made me, And shall thy worke decay? II. As due by many titles I resigne III. O might those sighes and teares returne againe IV. Oh my blacke Soule! V. I am a little world made cunningly VI. This is my playes last scene VII. At the round earths imagin’d corners VIII. If faithfull soules IX. If poysonous mineralls X. Death be not proud XI. Spit in my face you Jewes XII. Why are wee by all creatures waited on? XIII. What if this present were the worlds 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 XVII. Since she whom I lov’d hath payd XVIII. Show me deare Christ, thy Spouse XIX. Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet in one

Upon the Translation of the Psalmes By Sir Philip Sydney, and the Countesse of Pembroke His Sister To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors Last Going Into Germany The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the Most Part According to Tremelius A Hymne to God the Father Hymne to God My God, in My Sicknesse

Latin Poems and Translations

De Libro Cum Mutuaretur Impresso … Epigramma Amicissimo, Et Meritissimo Ben. Jonson To Mr. George Herbert, With One of My Seals, of the Anchor and Christ Translated Out of Gazæus

From Elegies Upon the Author

An Elegie Upon Dr. Donne [By Izaak Walton] An Elegie Upon the Death of the Deane Of Pauls, Dr. John Donne [By Thomas Carew]

Prose

From Juvenilia: Or Certaine Paradoxes, and Problemes Paradoxes

I. A Defence of Womens Inconstancy II. That Women Ought to Paint IV. That Good Is More Common Than Evil VI. That It Is Possible to Finde Some Vertue in Some Women VIII. That Nature Is Our Worst Guide X. That a Wise Man Is Known by Much Laughing XI. That the Gifts of the Body Are Better Than Those of the Minde XII. That Virginity Is a Vertue

Problemes

II. Why Puritans Make Long Sermons? V. Why Doe Young Lay-Men So Much Studie Divinity VI. Why Hath the Common Opinion Afforded Women Soules? VIII. Why Venus-Starre Onely Doth Cast a Shadow? IX. Why Is Venus-Star Multinominous, Called Both Hesperus and Vesper? XI. Why Doth the Poxe Soe Much Affect to Undermine the Nose? XVI. Why Are Courtiers Sooner Atheists Than Men of Other Conditions?

Characters, Essay, and conceited Newes

The Character of a Scot at the First Sight The True Character of a Dunce An Essay of Valour Newes from the Very Countrey From BIAΘANATOΣ From PSEUDO-MARTYR

Ignatius His Conclave From Essayes in Divinity

Five Prayers

From Letters

[To ——?] [To Sir Henry Wotton?] [To Sir Henry Wotton?] To Sir George More To Sir George More To Sir Thomas Egerton To Sir [Henry Goodyer] To Sir H[enry]. G[oodyer]. To Sir H[enry]. G[oodyer]. To Sir H[enry]. Goodere A V[uestra] Merced [To Sir Henry Goodyer?] To Sir H[enry]. G[oodyer]. [To the Countess of Bedford?] To the Prince [of Wales] To My Honoured Friend G[eorge]. G[arrard]. Esquire In Kindnesse Sent to an Absent Friend [To George Garrard?] To the Honorable Kt. Sir Edward Herbert With a Kind of Labour’d Complement, to a Friend of His To My Very True and Very Good Friend Sir Henry Goodere To Sir Robert Carre Now Earle of Ankerum, With My Book Biathanatos at My Going into Germany To His Mother: Comforting Her After the Death of Her Daughter To Sir H. [Goodyer?] To the R: Honorable Sir Thomas Roe, Ambassador for His Majestie of Great Britaine to the Grand Seignor To the Most Honourable and My Most Honored Lord, the Marquis of Buckingham To the Honourable Knight, Sir Robert Carre To a Lord, Upon Presenting of Some of His Work to Him To Sir Robert Carre Knight, When he was in Spain; about severall matters To the Honourable Lady the Lady Kingsmel Upon the Death of Her Husband To the Honourable Kt and My Most Honoured Friend Sir Henry Wotton, Provost of Eton To [Sir Thomas Roe?] To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Karre, At Court To Mrs. Cockaine, Occasioned by the Report of His Death [To Mrs. Cokain] [To Mrs. Cokain] To My Honoured Friend G[eorge]. G[arrard]. Esquire [To George Garrard] To My Noble Friend Mistress Cokain At Ashburne [To Mrs. Cokain]

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions From the Sermons and Death’s Duell

Preached On All-Saints Day Preached upon the Penitentiall Psalmes (Ps. xxxii) Preached upon the Penitentiall Psalmes (Ps. xxxii) Preached at St. Paul’s Preached at Whitehall Lincolns Inne Lincolns Inne Lincolns Inne Preached to the Nobility Preached Upon the Penitentiall Psalmes To the Lords upon Easter Day at the Communion The Hague Preached At Whitehall Whitehall. Before the King Preached at Whitehall Lincoln’s Inn. Sunday After Trinity St. Pauls. Christmas-day. At Whitehall. 1st Friday in Lent St. Paul’s. Easter Day Preached at the Spital Preached “At Hanworth, to my Lord of Carlile, and his Company, being the Earles of Northumberland, and Buckingham, etc.” St. Pauls Preached “To the Earle of Carlile, and his Company, at Sion.” Candlemas Day St. Paul’s. Easter day in the evening St. Paul’s. Christmas Day in the evening St. Paul’s. The Sunday after the Conversion of S. Paul Preached to the King’s Majestie at Whitehall “Denmark house, some few days before the body of King James was removed from thence, to his buriall” St. Paul’s. “The first of the Prebend of Cheswick’s five Psalmes” St. Paul’s. Whitsunday St. Dunstan’s. “The First Sermon after Our Dispersion by the Sickness” St. Paul’s. “The second of my Prebend Sermons upon my five Psalmes” St. Paul’s. Easter Day in the Evening “Preached to the King in my Ordinary Wayting at Whitehall” St. Paul’s. “In Vesperis.” “The third of my Prebend Sermons upon my five Psalmes” “Preached at the funeral of Sir William Cokayne, Knight, Alderman of London” To the King at White-Hall. The first Sunday in Lent St. Paul’s. Easter Day. To the King at Whitehall. A Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers, Late Wife of Sir John Danvers At the Earl of Bridgewaters house in London at the marriage of his daughter St. Paul’s. “The fifth of my Prebend Sermons upon my five Psalmes” St. Paul’s. Christmas Day Preached at Whitehall St. Paul’s. Easter Day Preached at Whitehall St. Paul’s. In the Evening St. Paul’s. In the evening. Upon the day of St. Paul’s Conversion Preached to the King at the Court Preached at St. Paul’s Crosse St. Paul’s. Christmas Day St. Paul’s. Conversion of St. Paul Whitehall. To the King Death’s Duell

Notes Index of Poetry Titles Index of Poetry First Lines A Note on the Text

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