John Donne Thou Quotations

But O alas, so long, so far / Our bodies why do we forbear? / They're ours, though they're not we, we are / The intelligences, they the sphere.

Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?

Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.

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.

Ride ten thousand days and nights,Till age snow white hairs on thee.

Rebel and Atheist too, why murmur I, / As though I felt the worst that love could do?

Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For reason, much too strong for fantasy, / Therefore thou waked'st me wisely; yet / My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.

When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.

When I died last, and, Dear, I die / As often as from thee I go, / Though it be but an hour ago, / And lovers' hours be full eternity.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, / Why dost thou thus, / Through windows, and through curtains call on us? / Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?

O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.

If our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.

Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere,/ This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere.

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, / And let our selves benight our happiest day.