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John Donne's Poetry, by title

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  • A Burnt Ship
    Out of a fired ship, which by no way
    But drowning could be rescued from the flame,
    6 lines, 7 comments
  • A dialogue between Sir Henry Wootton and Mr. Donne
    [W.]
    IF her disdain least change in you can move,
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • A Fever
    Oh do not die, for I shall hate
    All women so, when thou art gone,
    28 lines, 3 comments
  • A Hymn To Christ At The Author's Last Going Into Germany
    In what torn ship soever I embark,
    That ship shall be my emblem of thy Ark;
    33 lines, 1 comment
  • A Hymn To God The Father
    Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,
            Which was my sin, though it were done before?
    19 lines, 8 comments
  • A Jet Ring Sent
    Thou art not so black as my heart,
    Nor half so brittle as her heart, thou art ;
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • A Lame Beggar
    I am unable, yonder beggar cries,
    To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies.
    2 lines, 1 comment
  • A Lecture Upon The Shadow
    Stand still, and I will read to thee
    A lecture, love, in love's philosophy.
    26 lines
  • A Licentious Person
    Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call ;
    For, as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
    2 lines, 2 comments
  • A Litany
    THE FATHER.
    388 lines
  • A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day
    'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,
    Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks;
    45 lines
  • A Self Accuser
    Your mistress, that you follow whores, still taxeth
    you ;
    3 lines
  • A Sheaf Of Snakes Used Heretofore To Be My Seal, The Crest Of Our Poor Family
    ADOPTED in God's family and so
    Our old coat lost, unto new arms I go.
    21 lines
  • A Valediction of my Name in the Window
    I.
    MY name engraved herein
    77 lines, 1 comment
  • A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
    As virtuous men pass mildly away,
    And whisper to their souls, to go,
    36 lines, 6 comments
  • A Valediction: Of Weeping
    Let me pour forth
        My tears before thy face, whilst I stay here,
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • Air and Angels
    Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee,
    Before I knew thy face or name;
    28 lines
  • An Anatomy Of The World...
    AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD Wherein, by occasion of the untimely death of
    Mistress Elizabeth Drury, the frailty and the decay of this wh
    483 lines
  • An Obscure Writer
    Philo with twelve years' study hath been grieved
    To be understood ; when will he be believed?
    2 lines
  • Annunciation
    Salvation to all that will is nigh;
    That All, which always is all everywhere,
    13 lines
  • Antiquary
    If in his study he hath so much care
    To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.
    2 lines
  • Ascension
    Salute the last and everlasting day, 
    Joy at th' uprising of this Sun, and Son, 
    13 lines
  • Break of Day (another of the same)
    'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be?
    O wilt thou therefore rise from me?
    18 lines
  • Break Of Day!
    STAY, O sweet, and do not rise ;
    The light that shines comes from thine eyes ;
    6 lines
  • Community
    Good we must love, and must hate ill,
    For ill is ill, and good good still ;
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • Confined Love
    Some man unworthy to be possessor
    Of old or new love, himself being false or weak,
    21 lines
  • Crucifying
    By miracles exceeding power of man,
    He faith in some, envy in some begat, 
    13 lines
  • Daybreak
    STAY, O sweet and do not rise!
    The light that shines comes from thine eyes;
    6 lines
  • Death Be Not Proud
    Death be not proud, though some have called thee
    Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • Disinherited
    Thy father all from thee, by his last will,
    Gave to the poor ; thou hast good title still.
    2 lines
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