John Donne Selected Poems-第4章
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at their brightest; but to conclude
of longitudes; what other way have we;
but to mark when and where the dark eclipses be?
munity。
good we must love; and must hate ill;
for ill is ill; and good good still ;
but there are things indifferent;
which wee may neither hate; nor love;
but one; and then another prove;
as we shall find our fancy bent。
if then at first wise nature had
made women either good or bad;
then some wee might hate; and some choose ;
but since she did them so create;
that we may neither love; nor hate;
only this rests; all all may use。
if they were good it would be seen ;
good is as visible as green;
and to all eyes itself betrays。
if they were bad; they could not last ;
bad doth itself; and others waste ;
so they deserve nor blame; nor praise。
but they are ours as fruits are ours ;
he that but tastes; he that devours;
and he that leaves all; doth as well ;
changed loves are but changed sorts of meat ;
and when he hath the kernel eat;
who doth not fling away the shell?
loves growth。
i scarce believe my love to be so pure
as i had thought it was;
because it doth endure
vicissitude; and season; as the grass ;
methinks i lied all winter; when i swore
my love was infinite; if spring make it more。
but if this medicine; love; which cures all sorrow
with more; not only be no quintessence;
but mixd of all stuffs; vexing soul; or sense;
and of the sun his active vigour borrow;
love抯 not so pure; and abstract as they use
to say; which have no mistress but their muse ;
but as all else; being elemented too;
love sometimes would contemplate; sometimes do。
and yet no greater; but more eminent;
love by the spring is grown ;
as in the firmament
stars by the sun are not enlarged; but shown;
gentle love deeds; as blossoms on a bough;
from loves awakened root do bud out now。
if; as in water stirrd more circles be
produced by one; love such additions take;
those like so many spheres but one heaven make;
for they are all concentric unto thee ;
and though each spring do add to love new heat;
as princes do in times of action get
new taxes; and remit them not in peace;
no winter shall abate this spring抯 increase。
loves exchange。
love; any devil else but you
would for a given soul give something too。
at court your fellows every day
give th art of rhyming; huntsmanship; or play;
for them which were their own before ;
only i have nothing; which gave more;
but am; alas ! by being lowly; lower。
i ask no dispensation now;
to falsify a tear; or sigh; or vow ;
i do not sue from thee to draw
a non obstante on natures law ;
these are prerogatives; they inhere
in thee and thine ; none should forswear
except that he loves minion were。
give me thy weakness; make me blind;
both ways; as thou and thine; in eyes and mind ;
love; let me never know that this
is love; or; that love childish is ;
let me not know that others know
that she knows my paines; lest that so
a tender shame make me mine own new woe。
if thou give nothing; yet thou rt just;
because i would not thy first motions trust ;
small towns which stand stiff; till great shot
enforce them; by wars law condition not ;
such in loves warfare is my case ;
i may not article for grace;
having put love at last to show this face。
this face; by which he could mand
and change th idolatry of any land;
this face; which; wheresoeer it es;
can call vowd men from cloisters; dead from tombs;
and melt both poles at once; and store
deserts with cities; and make more
mines in the earth; than quarries were before。
for this love is enraged with me;
yet kills not ; if i must example be
to future rebels; if th unborn
must learn by my being cut up and torn;
kill; and dissect me; love ; for this
torture against thine own end is ;
rackd carcasses make ill anatomies。
confined love。
some man unworthy to be possessor
of old or new love; himself being false or weak;
thought his pain and shame would be lesser;
if on womankind he might his anger wreak ;
and thence a law did grow;
one might but one man know ;
but are other creatures so?
are sun; moon; or stars by law forbidden
to smile where they list; or lend away their light?
are birds divorced or are they chidden
if they leave their mate; or lie abroad a night?
beasts do no jointures lose
though they new lovers choose ;
but we are made worse than those。
who eer riggd fair ships to lie in harbours;
and not to seek lands; or not to deal with all?
or built fair houses; set trees; and arbours;
only to lock up; or else to let them fall?
good is not good; unless
a thousand it possess;
but doth waste with greediness。
the dream。
dear love; for nothing less than thee
would i have broke this happy dream ;
it was a theme
for reason; much too strong for fantasy。
therefore thou wakedst me wisely ; yet
my dream thou brokest not; but continuedst it。
thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice
to make dreams truths; and fables histories ;
enter these arms; for since thou thoughtst it best;
not to dream all my dream; lets act the rest。
as lightning; or a tapers light;
thine eyes; and not thy noise waked me ;
yet i thought thee
—for thou lovest truth—an angel; at first sight ;
but when i saw thou sawst my heart;
and knewst my thoughts beyond an angels art;
when thou knewst what i dreamt; when thou knewst when
excess of joy would wake me; and camest then;
i must confess; it could not choose but be
profane; to think thee any thing but thee。
ing and staying showd thee; thee;
but rising makes me doubt; that now
thou art not thou。
that love is weak where fears as strong as he ;
tis not all spirit; pure and brave;
if mixture it of fear; shame; honour have ;
perchance as torches; which must ready be;
men light and put out; so thou dealst with me ;
thou camest to kindle; gost to e ; then i
will dream that hope again; but else would die。
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John Donne Selected Poems…6
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a valediction of weeping。
let me pour forth
my tears before thy face; whilst i stay here;
for thy face coins them; and thy stamp they bear;
and by this mintage they are something worth。
for thus they be
pregnant of thee ;
fruits of much grief they are; emblems of more ;
when a tear falls; that thou fallst which it bore ;
so thou and i are nothing then; when on a divers shore。
on a round ball
a workman; that hath copies by; can lay
an europe; afric; and an asia;
and quickly make that; which was nothing; all。
so doth each tear;
which thee doth wear;
a globe; yea world; by that impression grow;
till thy tears mixd with mine do overflow
this world; by waters sent from thee; my heaven dissolvèd so。
o ! more than moon;
draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere ;
weep me not dead; in thine arms; but forbear
to teach the sea; what it may do too soon ;
let not the wind
example find
to do me more harm than it purposeth :
since thou and i sigh one anothers breath;
whoeer sighs most is cruellest; and hastes the others death。
loves alchemy。
some that have deeper diggd loves mine than i;
say; where his centric happiness doth lie。
i have loved; and got; and told;
but should i love; get; tell; till i were old;
i should not find that hidden mystery。
o ! tis imposture all ;
and as no chemic yet th elixir got;
but glorifies his pregnant pot;
if by the way to him befall
some odoriferous thing; or medicinal;
so; lovers dream a rich and long delight;
but get a winter…seeming summers night。
our ease; our thrift; our honour; and our day;
shall we for this vain bubbles 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 bridegrooms 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 days rude hoarse minstrelsy; the spheres。
hope not for mind in women ; at their best;
sweetness and wit they are; but mummy; possessd。
the curse。
whoever guesses; thinks; or dreams; he knows
who is my mistress; wither by this curse ;
him; only for his purse
may some dull whore to love dispose;
and then yield unto all that are his foes ;
may he be scornd by one; whom all else scorn;
forswear to others; what to her he hath sworn;
with fear of missing; shame of getting; torn。
madness his sorrow; gout his cramps; may he
make; by but thinking who hath made him such ;
and may he feel no touch
of conscience; but of fame; and be
anguishd; not that twas sin; but that twas she ;
or may he for her virtue reverence
one that hates him only for impotence;
and equal traitors be she and his sense。
may he dream treason; and believe that he
meant to perform it; and confess