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Poetry

John Donne

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Poetry
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A collection of John Donne’s poetry.

Poetry

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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Dedication
  4. Poetry
    1. Songs and Sonnets
      1. The Good-Morrow
      2. Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star
      3. Woman’s Constancy
      4. The Undertaking
      5. The Sun Rising
      6. The Indifferent
      7. Love’s Usury
      8. The Canonization
      9. The Triple Fool
      10. Lovers’ Infiniteness
      11. Song: Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go
      12. The Legacy
      13. A Fever
      14. Air and Angels
      15. Break of Day: ’Tis True, ’Tis Day; What Though It Be?
      16. The Anniversary
      17. A Valediction of My Name, in the Window
      18. Twickenham Garden
      19. A Valediction to His Book
      20. Community
      21. Love’s Growth
      22. Love’s Exchange
      23. Confined Love
      24. The Dream
      25. A Valediction of Weeping
      26. Love’s Alchemy
      27. The Flea
      28. The Curse
      29. The Message
      30. A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day
      31. Witchcraft by a Picture
      32. The Bait
      33. The Apparition
      34. The Broken Heart
      35. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
      36. The Ecstacy
      37. Love’s Deity
      38. Love’s Diet
      39. The Will
      40. The Funeral
      41. The Blossom
      42. The Primrose, Being at Montgomery Castle Upon the Hill, on Which It Is Situate
      43. The Relic
      44. The Damp
      45. The Dissolution
      46. A Jet Ring Sent
      47. Negative Love
      48. The Prohibition
      49. The Expiration
      50. The Computation
      51. The Paradox
      52. Farewell to Love
      53. A Lecture Upon the Shadow
      54. The Token
      55. Self-Love
    2. Epigrams
      1. Hero and Leander
      2. Pyramus and Thisbe
      3. Niobe
      4. A Burnt Ship
      5. Fall of a Wall
      6. A Lame Beggar
      7. Cales and Guyana
      8. Sir John Wingfield
      9. A Self-Accuser
      10. A Licentious Person
      11. Antiquary
      12. Disinherited
      13. Phryne
      14. An Obscure Writer
      15. Klockius
      16. Raderus
      17. Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
      18. Ralphius
      19. The Liar
    3. Elegies
      1. Elegy I: Jealousy
      2. Elegy II: The Anagram
      3. Elegy III: Change
      4. Elegy IV: The Perfume
      5. Elegy V: His Picture
      6. Elegy VI: O, Let Me Not Serve So, as Those Men Serve
      7. Elegy VII: Nature’s Lay Idiot, I Taught Thee to Love
      8. Elegy VIII: The Comparison
      9. Elegy IX: The Autumnal
      10. Elegy X: The Dream
      11. Elegy XI: The Bracelet
      12. Elegy XII: His Parting from Her
      13. Elegy XIII: Julia
      14. Elegy XIV: A Tale of a Citizen and His Wife
      15. Elegy XV: The Expostulation
      16. Elegy XVI: On His Mistress
      17. Elegy XVII: Variety
      18. Elegy XVIII: Love’s Progress
      19. Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed
      20. Elegy XX: Love’s War
      21. Heroical Epistle
    4. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs
      1. An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine Being Married on St. Valentine’s Day
      2. Eclogue
      3. Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn
    5. Satires
      1. Satire I
      2. Satire II
      3. Satire III
      4. Satire IV
      5. Satire V
      6. Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat’s Crudities
    6. Letters to Several Personages
      1. The Storm
      2. The Calm
      3. To Sir Henry Wotton: Sir, More Than Kisses, Letters Mingle Souls
      4. To Sir Henry Goodyere
      5. To Mr. Rowland Woodward: Like One Who in Her Third Widowhood Doth Profess
      6. To Sir Henry Wotton: Here’s No More News Than Virtue; I May as Well
      7. Henrico Wottoni in Hibernia Belligeranti
      8. To the Countess of Bedford: Reason Is Our Soul’s Left Hand, Faith Her Right
      9. To the Countess of Bedford: You Have Refined Me, and to Worthiest Things
      10. To Sir Edward Herbert, Now Lord Herbert Cherbury, Being at the Siege of Juliers
      11. To the Countess of Bedford: To Have Written Then, When You Writ, Seem’d to Me
      12. To the Countess of Bedford, on New Year’s Day
      13. To the Countess of Huntingdon: Man to God’s Image, Eve to Man’s Was Made
      14. To Mr. Thomas Woodward: All Hail, Sweet Poet, More Full of More Strong Fire
      15. To Mr. Thomas Woodward: Haste Thee, Harsh Verse, as Fast as Thy Lame Measure
      16. To Mr. Thomas Woodward: Pregnant Again with th’ Old Twins, Hope and Fear
      17. To Mr. Thomas Woodward: At Once from Hence My Lines and I Depart
      18. To Mr. Rowland Woodward: Zealously My Muse Doth Salute All Thee
      19. To Mr. Rowland Woodward: Muse Not That by Thy Mind Thy Body Is Led
      20. To Mr. Christopher Brooke: Thy Friend, Whom Thy Deserts to Thee Enchain
      21. To Mr. Edward Guilpin
      22. To Mr. Rowland Woodward: If, as Mine Is, Thy Life a Slumber Be
      23. To Mr. Rowland Woodward: Kindly I Envy Thy Song’s Perfection
      24. To Mr. Samuel Brooke
      25. To Mr. I. L.: Of That Short Roll of Friends Writ in My Heart
      26. To Mr. Basil Brooke
      27. To Mr. I. L.: Blest Are Your North Parts, for All This Long Time
      28. To Sir Henry Wotton at His Going Ambassador to Venice
      29. To Mrs. Magdalen Herbert
      30. To the Countess of Bedford: Honour Is So Sublime Perfection
      31. To the Countess of Bedford: Though I Be Dead and Buried, Yet I Have
      32. A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mistress Essex Rich, from Amiens
      33. To the Countess of Salisbury, August 1614
      34. To the Lady Bedford
    7. An Anatomy of the World
      1. The First Anniversary
        1. To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy
        2. An Anatomy of the World
        3. A Funeral Elegy
      2. The Second Anniversary
        1. The Harbinger to the Progress
        2. Of the Progress of the Soul
    8. Epicedes and Obsequies Upon the Death of Sundry Personages
      1. Elegy Upon the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry
      2. Obsequies of the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Countess of Bedford
      3. Elegy on the Lady Markham
      4. Elegy on Mistress Boulstred
      5. Elegy
      6. Elegy on the Lord Chancellor
      7. A Hymn to the Saints, and to Marquis Hamilton
    9. Epitaphs
      1. Epitaph on Himself
      2. Omnibus
    10. Infinitati Sacrum: Metempsychosis
      1. Epistle
      2. The Progress of the Soul
    11. Divine Poems
      1. To the Earl of Doncaster, with Six Holy Sonnets
      2. I: La Corona
      3. II: Annunciation
      4. III: Nativity
      5. IV: Temple
      6. V: Crucifying
      7. VI: Resurrection
      8. VII: Ascension
      9. To the Lady Magdalen Herbert, of St. Mary Magdalen
      10. Holy Sonnets
        1. I
        2. II
        3. III
        4. IV
        5. V
        6. VI
        7. VII
        8. VIII
        9. IX
        10. X
        11. XI
        12. XII
        13. XIII
        14. XIV
        15. XV
        16. XVI
        17. XVII
        18. XVIII
        19. XIX
      11. The Cross
      12. Resurrection, Imperfect
      13. The Annunciation and Passion
      14. Good-Friday, 1613, Riding Westward
      15. A Litany
      16. Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney, and the Countess of Pembroke, His Sister
      17. Ode: Vengeance Will Sit Above Our Faults; But Till
      18. To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders
      19. A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s Last Going Into Germany
      20. The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the Most Part According to Tremellius
        1. Chapter I
        2. Chapter II
        3. Chapter III
        4. Chapter IV
        5. Chapter V
      21. Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness
      22. A Hymn to God the Father
  5. Colophon
  6. Uncopyright

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SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE
2026-08-10
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2026-08-10
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  • Joakim Skovgaard (art)
  • Emma Sweeney (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, trc, tyg)
  • Robin Whittleton (pfr)
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