"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...












And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

More John Donne quotes
"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...
"At the round earth's imagined corners blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberless infinitiesOf souls, and to your scattered ...
"I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying so.
"Love's mysteries in souls do grow,But yet the body is his book.
"Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting da...
"Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
"My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares, And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, Where can we finde two better hemispheares Without sharpe ...
"How blest am I in this discovering thee!To enter in these bonds is to be free;Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be. Full nakedness! All joys ar...
"True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this i...
"If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.