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John Donne Quotes

«On a round ball / A workman that hath copies by, can lay / An Europe, Africa and an Asia, / And quickly make that, which was nothing, All.»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: Asia, copies, workman
«Since I am coming to that holy room, / Where, with thy quire of Saints for evermore, / I shall be made thy Music; As I come / I tune the instrument here at the door, / And what I must do then, think here before.»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: evermore
«Though she were true, when you met her,/ And last, till you write your letter, / Yet she / Will be / False, ere I come, to two, or three.»
Author: John Donne
«Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm / Nor question much / That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm.»
«Where can we find two better hemispheres/ Without sharp North, without declining West?»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: hemisphere, hemispheres
«By our first strange and fatal interview.»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: interview
«She is all States, and all Princes, I, / Nothing else is. / Princes do but play us.»
Author: John Donne
«Pictures in our eyes to get / Was all our propagation.»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: propagation
«All day, the same our postures were, / And we said nothing all the day.»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: postures
«Where, like a pillow on a bed, / A pregnant bank swelled up, to rest / The violet's reclining head, / Sat we two, one another's best.»

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