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For good, and well, must in our actions meet; / Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

—The First Anniversary ll. 337–8.

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John Donne

WORKS: The Poems of John Donne
This expertly edited two-volume edition of the master of metaphysical poetry features modernized spellings.; Bartlett’s Donne Quotations; Douglas’s Donne Quotations; Wood’s Donne Quotations
ANTHOLOGIZED SELECTIONS: Aire and Angels; Anniversarie; The Annuntiation and Passion; Ascention; At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow; Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you; The Blossom; Blossome; Daybreak; Death; Death; Death be not proud, though some have called thee; Dream; The Dream; Dreame; Ecstasy; Elegy; Expiration; Extasie; Funeral; The Funeral; Funerall; Goe, and catche a falling starre; Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward; Good Friday; Good-morrow; The Good Morrow; His Picture; Holy Sonnets; A Hymn to God the Father; A Hymne to God the Father; A Hymn to God the Father; Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse; A Hymne to Christ; Hymne to Christ at the Author’s Last Going into Germany; Lover’s Infiniteness; Lovers infinitenesse; Love’s Deity; Message; Nativitie; A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day; On his Mistris; Present in Absence; Prohibition; Psalme CXXXVII; Relique; Resvrrection; Satyre; Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear; Song; Song; The Soule; Stay, O Sweet; Sunne Rising; Sweetest love, I do not goe; Sweetest Love, I do not Go; That Time and Absence proves; This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint; Thou hast made me, And shall thy worke decay?; To Christ; To Sir H. W. at his going Ambassador to Venice; To the Countesse of Bedford; Twicknam garden; A Valediction: forbidding mourning; Valediction, Forbidding Mourning; A Valediction: of weeping; What if this present were the worlds last night?
WRITINGS ABOUT DONNE: “John Donne”
Chapter by Herbert J. C. Grierson with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.; Life of John Donne
Biography by Izaak Walton.

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