Poems of John Donne
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1/ THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ENDOWED BY THE DIALECTIC AND PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETIES PR22U5 .A5 C5 1901, v. 2 UNIVERSITY OF N.C. AT CHAPEL HILL 10001490423 This book is due at the LOUIS R. WILSON LIBRARY on the last date stamped under "Date Due." If not on hold it may be renewed by bringing it to the library. DATE DS. T DATE DUE RET DUE KL1 '1 fit o n tHGf ..1. _ r\ *C\ n \j n f 1 All -"\ a« »/*V JAN23 9! 1 1 7QQ2 ArK V) r POEMS OF JOHN DONNE. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/poemsofjohndonne02donn_0 POEMS .tf** C 6~ OF )*0 I JOHN DONNE^ E. K. CHAMBERS. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE S AINTSBURY. NEW EDITION. VOL. II. LONDON: NEW YORK: A. H. BTJLLEN, CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 18 Cecil Court, W.C. i53~7 Fifth Avenue. xgoj^ 1901. Richard Clay &,Sons, Limited, London & Bungay. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE Table of Contents ... vii Letters to Several Personages— To Mr. Christopher Brooke : The Storm I „ „ „ The Calm 4 To Sir Henry Wotton ... 7 To Sir Henry Goodyere 10 To Mr. Rowland Woodward .. ... 12 To Sir Henry Wotton 14 To the Countess of Bedford 15 To the Countess of Bedford 17 To Sir Edward Herbert. 20 To the Countess of Bedford 22 To the Countess of Bedford, on New Year's Day 26 To the Countess of Huntingdon ... ... 29 To M[r] Ifzaak] W[alton] ... 32 To M[r] T. W 33 To M[r] T. W 34 Incerto ... 35 To M[r] Qhristopher] B[rooke] 35 To M[r] S[amuel] B[rooke] 36 To M[r] B[asil] B[rooke] 37 To M[r] R. W[eodward] *. 38 To M[r] I. U 39 To M[r] I. Pir 40 To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going Am- bassador to Venice 41 : riii CONTENTS PAGIS To M[rs] M[agdalenl H[erbert] 43 To the Countess of Bedford 45 To the Countess of Huntingdon 48 To the Countess of Bedford 53 To the Lady Carey, and Mistress Essex Rich ; from Amiens 54 To the Countess of Salisbury 57 To the Countess of Bedford ... ... 60 Sappho to Philaenis .. ... ... ... 61 To Ben Jonson 64 J To SirTho. Rovve ... 65 De Libro cum mutuaretur : Doctissimo Amicissimocjue v. D. D. Andrews ... 66 Commendatory Verses— Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat's Crudities ... 68 Amicissimo et meritissimo Benj : Jonson in Volponem ... ... ... ... 71 Epicedes and Obsequies— Elegy on Prince Henry ... ... ... 72 Obsequies of the Lord Harrington ... 77 Elegy on the Lady Markham ... ... 86 Elegy on Mistress Boulstred ... ... 89 Elegy on Mistress Boulstred ... ... 92 Death 93 Elegy on the L[ord] C[hancellor] 96 A Hymn to the Saints, and to Marquis Hamilton 98 Elegy on Himself 100 Elegy 101 An Anatomy of the World— The First Anniversary To the Praise of the Dead, and the Ana- # tomy : [By Joseph Hall] 102 CONTENTS ix PAGE An Anatomy of the World : the First Anni- versary ... ... ... ... ... 104 A Funeral Elegy 121 The Second Anniversary The Harbinger to the Progress : [By Joseph Hall] 125 An Anatomy of the World ; or, the Pro- gress of the Soul : the Second Anni- versary ... ... ... ... ... 127 The Progress of the Soul— Epistle 146 The Progress of the Soul : First Song ... 148 Satires— Satire i. 175 Satire ii 180 Satire iii. : Of Religion 185 Satire iv 190 Satire v 199 Satire vi 203 Satire vii.: To Sir Nicholas Smyth ... 205 Epigrams— Hero and Leander ... , 210 Pyramus and Thisbe ... ... ... 210 Niobe j. ... 210 A Burnt Ship 210 Fall of a Wall 210 A Lame Beggar 211 A Self-accuser 211 A Licentious Person 211 Antiquary 211 Disinherited « 211 Phryne 211 An Obscure Writer 211 x CONTENTS PAGE Klockius 212 Raderus 212 Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus ... ... ... 212 Ralphius ... ... ... 212 Notes to Vol. II. ... ... 213 Appendices A. Doubtful Poems— Absence 249 Love's War ... ... ... ... ... 250 On a Flea on his Mistress's Bosom ... 252 The Portrait 253 Love-Sonnet (i.) ... ... 254 (") • - 254 A Warning ... 255 To the Young Gentlewomen ... ... 256 Believe your Glass ... ... ... ... 257 Fortune never Fails ... ... ... 258 To Mrs. Boulstred ... 260 To a Painted Lady ... 261 Love's Power ... ... ... ... 264 Love and Reason ... ... ... ... 265 To a Lady of a Dark Complexion ... 267 Borrowing ... ... 268 Supping Hours ... 269 The Smith ... ... 269 The Lady and her Viol ... ... 269 A Paradox ... ... ... ... ... 270 Sun, Begone 270 If She Deride 271 Love and Wit ... 272 Dr. Donne's Farewell to the World ... 273 Notes to Doubtful Poems 275 B. Poems hitherto Uncollected— [To the Blessed Virgin Mary] ... ... 284 CONTENTS PAGE To my Lord of Pembroke .. 285 Of a Lady in the Black Mask 286 A Letter written by Sir H[enry] G[oodyere] and J[ohn] D[onne], alternis vicibus To the Author [Thomas Coryat] ... In Eundem Macaronicum ... On Friendship The Constant Lover ... ... [An Ideal] The Lie [True Love] ... Notes to Poems hitherto Uncollected C. Spurious Poe7iis D. The Sheaf of Epigrams of"1652 E. Ignatius his Conclave F. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions List of First Lines —— ; LETTERS TO SEVERAL PERSONAGES. THE STORM. TO MR. CHRISTOPHER BROOKE, FROM THE ISLAND VOYAGE WITH THE EARL OF ESSEX. Thou which art I— 'tis nothing to be so Thou which art still thyself, by these shalt know Part of our passage ; and a hand or eye By Hilliard drawn is worth a history By a worse painter made ; and, without pride, When by thy judgment they are dignified, My lines are such. 'Tis the pre-eminence Of friendship only to impute excellence. England, to whom we owe what we be and have, Sad that her sons did seek a foreign grave io —For Fate's or Fortune's drifts none can soothsay Honour and misery have one face, and way !. 2. 1635, by this 1. 11. 1669, gainsay 1. 12. So 1633, 1669 ; 1635, one way VOL. II. I ; 2 DONNE'S POEMS. From out her pregnant entrails sigh'd a wind, Which at th' air's middle marble room did find Such strong resistance, that itself it threw Downward again ; and so when it did view How in the port our fleet dear. time did leese, Withering like prisoners, which lie but for fees, Mildly it kiss'd our sails, and fresh and sweet —As to a stomach starved, whose insides meet, 20 Meat comes—it came ; and swole our sails, when we So joy'd, as Sarah her swelling joy'd to see. But 'twas but so kind as our countrymen, Which bring friends one day's way, and leave them then. Then like two mighty kings, which dwelling far Asunder, meet against a third to war, The south and west winds join'd, and, as they blew, Waves like a rolling trench before them threw. Sooner than you read this line, did the gale, till felt, Like shot, not fear'd our sails assail ; 30 And what at first was call'd a gust, the same Hath now a storm's, anon a tempest's name. Jonas, I pity thee, and curse those men Who, when the storm raged most, did wake thee then. Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill. But when I waked, I saw that I saw not I, and the sun, which should teach me, had forgot East, west, day, night ; and I could only say, If th' world had lasted, now it had been day. 40 1. it 40. So 1633, 1669 ; 1635, had yet been day VERSE LETTERS. 3 Thousands our noises were, yet we 'mongst all Could none by his right name, but thunder, call. Lightning was all our light, andat rain'd more Than if the sun had drunk the sea before. Some coffin'd in their cabins lie, equally Grieved that they are not dead, and yet must die ; And as sin-burden'd souls from grave will creep At the last day, some forth their cabins peep, And trembling ask, " What news ? " and do hear so As jealous husbands, what they would not know. 50 Some sitting on the hatches would seem there With hideous gazing to fear away fear. f^Then note they the ship's sicknesses, the mast Shaked with an ague, and the hold and waist With a salt dropsy clogg'd, and all our tacklings Snapping, like too-too-high-stretch'd treble strings. And from our tatter'd sails rags drop down so, As from one hang'd in chains a year ago. /• /Even our ordnance, placed for our defence, Strives to break loose, and 'scape away from thence. 60 Pumping hath tired our men, and what's the gain ? Seas into seas thrown, we suck in again ; Hearing hath deafd our sailors, and if they Knew how to hear, there's none knows what to say. / 1. 42. 1669, by this 1. 49. So 1635 ; 1633, tremblingly 1. 54. So 1635 ; 1633, this ague 1. 56. So 1635 ; 1633, like too high stretched; 1669, like to too-high-stretched 1. 59. 1635, Yea, e'en ; 4 DONNE'S POEMS. Compared to these storms, death is but a qualm, Hell somewhat lightsome, the Bermudas calm. Darkness, light's eldest brother, his birthright Claims o'er the world, and to heaven hath chased light. All things are one, and that one none can be, Since all forms uniform deformity 70 Doth cover ; so that we, except God say Another Fiat, shall have no more day. So violent, yet long, these furies be, That though thine absence starve me, I wish not thee. THE CALM. Our storm is past, and that storm's tyrannous rage A stupid calm, but nothing it, doth 'suage.