Poems List

Ask me no more if east or west The Phoenix builds her spicy nest; For unto you at last she flies, And in your fragrant bosom dies.

Poems. To Celia, st. 5

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Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauty’s orient deep These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.

Poems [1640]. To Celia, st. 1

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Here lies a King that rul’d, as he thought fit The universal monarchy of wit; Here lies two flamens, and both those the best: Apollo’s first, at last the true God’s priest.

An Elegy upon the Death of Dr. Donne [1633]

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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Literature will neither yield thee bread, nor a stomach to digest bread with; quit it in God’s name .
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