John Donne

John Donne

Summary

Portrait of John Donne John Donne,  Love's Alchemy

“ Our ease, our thrift, our honour, and our day,
Shall we for this vain bubble's shadow pay?
⁠Ends love in this, that my man
Can be as happy as I can, if he can
Endure the short scorn of a bridegroom's play?
⁠That loving wretch that swears,
'Tis not the bodies marry, but the minds,
⁠Which he in her angelic finds,
⁠Would swear as justly, that he hears,
In that day's rude hoarse minstrelsy, the spheres.
⁠Hope not for mind in women; at their best,
⁠Sweetness and wit they are, but mummy, possess'd.
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