— John Donne, buch Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed
No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed
Elegies
Quelle: The Complete English Poems
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„Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.“
No. 2, The Anagram, line 27
Elegies
Quelle: The Complete English Poems
„And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.“
Quelle: The Complete English Poems
„No man is an island, entire of itself.“
Quelle: No man is an island – A selection from the prose
„Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.“
The Extasy, line 71
Quelle: The Complete English Poems
„Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.“
Verse Letter to Sir Henry Woton, written before April 1598, line 1
Variante: More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
„I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite.“
— John Donne, buch Holy Sonnets
No. 5, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)
„Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.“
Quelle: No man is an island – A selection from the prose
The Anniversary, last stanza
Quelle: The Complete English Poems
„I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.“
Quelle: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
„For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.“
— John Donne, The Canonization
The Canonization, stanza 1
„What if this present were the world's last night?“
— John Donne, buch Holy Sonnets
No. 13, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)
