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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

John Donne
Love, Country, Wonder
Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules contain Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt souls, doth mixe againe. Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke.

John Donne
Love, Moving, Soul

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

John Donne
Love, Lying, Bed
John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.213

The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

John Donne
Love, Heaven, Should
John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

John Donne
Love, Soul, Dull
John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.555

The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

John Donne
Love, Sex, Phoenix
John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.238, Harvard University Press

For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

John Donne
Love, Art, Darkness
John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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