John Donne Quotes about Heart

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The day breaks not, it is my heart.

John Donne

Heart, My Heart, Break

John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

John Donne

Heart, Cheerful, God Love

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

John Donne

Heart, Blow, Shining

Holy Sonnets no. 10 (published 1633)

Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.

John Donne

Fall, Heart, Thinking

John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.166, Harvard University Press

Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

John Donne

Heart, Mad, May

"John Donne: The Major Works".

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

John Donne

Love, Heart, Eye

John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.227, Harvard University Press