"Dear love, for nothing less than theeWould I have broke this happy dream;It was a themeFor reason, much too strong for fantasy,Therefore thou wak'd'st...












More John Donne quotes
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
"Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat. If they be tw...
"That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
"Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.
"I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.
"For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
"If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
"If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.
"Love all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.
"At the round earth's imagined corners blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberless infinitiesOf souls, and to your scattered ...
"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
"All kings and all their favourites All glory of honours beauties wits The sun itself which makes time as they pass Is elder by a year now than...
"Go and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are,Or who cleft the devil's foot,Teach me to hear mermaids si...
"I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying so.