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  • Donne on Sunday

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    Posted on January 3rd, 2010sherryPoets

    The Pope excommunicated Martin Luther on this date in 1521 and the Irish have made blasphemy illegal, so maybe it’s time for a little John Donne.

    I don’t care much for this one at all. It is all cleverness, it seems to me.

    Divine Meditations

    17
    Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt
    To nature, and to hers, and my good is dead,
    And her soul early into heaven ravished,
    Wholly in heavenly things my mind is set.
    Here the admiring her my mind did whet
    To seek thee God; so screams do show the head,
    But though I have found thee, and thou my thirst hast fed,
    A holy thirsty dropsy melts me yet.
    But why should I beg more love, when as thou
    Dost woo my soul for hers; offering all thine:
    And dost not only fear lest I allow
    My love to saints and angels, things divine,
    But in thy tender jealousy dost doubt
    Lest the world, flesh, yea Devil put thee out.

    —John Donne, The Complete Poems (Penguin, 1971)

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