The Poems of John Donne is one volume paperback edition of the poems of John Donne (1572-1631) based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of his work from composition to circulation and reception. Donne’s output is tremendously varied in style and form and demonstrates his ability to exercise his rhetorical capabilities according to context and occasion. This edition aims to present the text of all his known poems, from the epigrams, songs and satires written for fellow young men about town, to the more mature verse-epistles and memorial elegies written for his patrons. The Longman Annotated English Poets series traditionally aims to present poems in chronological order; in this edition, however, the principle has been observed only within generic sections. This organisation reproduces the manner in which Donne’s original readers first encountered the poems in the various manuscripts of his elegies and satires that circulated in Donne’s lifetime. Volume One contains the Epigrams, Verse Letters to Friends, Love Lyrics, Love Elegies and Satires; Volume Two contains the religious poems, Wedding Celebrations, Verse Epistles to Patronesses, Commemorations, and the Anniversaries. The lyrics have been arranged alphabetically for ease of reference and because, in all but a few cases, precise date of composition is impossible to determine. Each poem has extensive editorial commentary designed to put the twenty-first century reader in possession of all that is necessary fully to appreciate Donne’s work. A substantial headnote sets each poem in its historical and literary context, while the annotations give detailed guidance on the wealth of classical and religious allusions and give full representation to the literary, historical and philosophical culture out of which the poems grew. In keeping with the traditions of the series, Donne’s own text has been modernised in punctuation and spelling except where to do so would alter or disrupt a rhyme.

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Epigrams Hero and Leander Pyramus and Thisbe Niobe Naue Arsa (A Burnt Ship) Caso d’un Muro (Fall of a Wall) Zoppo (A Lame Beggar) Calez and Guyana Il Cavaliere Giovanni Wingfield A Self-accuser A Licentious Person Antiquary The Ingler Disinherited The Liar Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus Phryne An Obscure Writer Klockius Martialis Castratus (Raderus) Ralphius Ad Autorem (Joseph Scaliger) Ad Autorem (William Covell) Verse letters to Friends To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Zealously my Muse’) To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Muse not’) To Mr Christopher Brooke To Mr Ingram Lister(‘Of that short roll of friends’) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘At once from hence’) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘All hail, sweet poet’) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘Pregnant again’) To my Lord of Derby To Mr Beaupré Bell (1) To Mr Beaupré Bell (2) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘Haste thee, harsh verse’) To Mr Samuel Brooke To Mr Everard Guilpin To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Kindly I envy thy song’s perfectïon’) To Mr Ingram Lister(‘Blest are your north parts’) To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Like one who in her third widowhead’) To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be’) The Storm The Calm To Mr Henry Wotton(‘Here’s no more news than virtue’) To Mr Henry Wotton(‘Sir, more than kisses’) Henrico Wotton in Hibernia Belligeranti To Sir Henry Wotton at his Going Ambassador to Venice Amicissimo et meritissimo Ben. Ionson in ‘Vulponem’ To Sir Henry Goodyer To Sir Edward Herbert at Juliers Upon Mr Thomas Coryat’s ‘Crudities’ In eundem Macaronicon A Letter Written by Sir Henry Goodyer and John Donnealternis vicibus To Mr George Herbert with my Seal of the Anchor and Christ To Mr Tilman after he had Taken Orders De libro cum mutuaretur impresso, ... D. D. Andrews Love Lyrics (‘Songs and Sonnets’) Air and Angels The Anniversary The Apparition The Bait The Blossom Break of Day The Broken Heart The Canonization Community The Computation Confined Love The Curse The Damp The Dissolution The Dream The Ecstasy The Expiration Farewell to Love A Fever The Flea The Funeral The Good-morrow Image and Dream The Indifferent To a Jet Ring Sent to me Lecture upon the Shadow The Legacy Love’s All (Love’s Infiniteness) Love’s Deity Love’s Diet Love’s Exchange Love’s Usury A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day The Message Mummy (Love’s Alchemy) Negative Love The Paradox Platonic Love (The Undertaking) The Primrose The Prohibition The Relic Song: ‘Go and Catch a Falling Star’ Song: ‘Sweetest Love, I do not Go’ Spring (Love’s Growth) The Sun Rising The Triple Fool TwickenhamGarden A Valediction Forbidding Mourning A Valediction: Of my Name in the Window A Valediction: Of the Book A Valediction: Of Weeping The Will Witchcraft by a Picture Woman’s Constancy Love Elegies The Bracelet The Comparison The Perfume Jealousy Love’s Recusant Love’s Pupil Love’s War To his Mistress Going to Bed Change The Anagram To his Mistress on Going Abroad His Picture On Love’s Progress Autumnal Satire Satyre 1(‘Away, thou changeling, motley humorist’) Satyre 2(‘Sir, though (I thank God f 2. Annunciation 3. Nativity 4. Temple 5. Crucifying 6. Resurrection 7. Ascension To Mrs Magdalen Herbert: Of St Mary Magdalen Upon the Annunciation when Good Friday Fell upon the Same Day Sonnet: ‘Oh, to vex me’ A Litany Resurrection(imperfect) Divine Meditations 1. ‘Thou hast made me’ 2. ‘As due by many titles’ 3. ‘Oh might those sighs and tears’ 4. ‘Father, part of his double interest’ 5. ‘O my black soul!’ 6. ‘This is my play’s last scene’ 7. ‘I am a little world’ 8. ‘At the round earth’s imagined corners’ 9. ‘If poisonous minerals’ 10. ‘If faithful souls’ 11. ‘Death, be not proud’ 12. ‘Wilt thou love God’ Holy Sonnets 1. ‘As due by many titles’ 2. ‘O my black soul!’ 3. ‘This is my play’s last scene’ 4. ‘At the round earth’s imagined corners’ 5. ‘If poisonous minerals’ 6. ‘Death, be not proud’ 7. ‘Spit in my face’ 8. ‘Why are we’ 9. ‘What if this present’ 10. ‘Batter my heart’ 11. ‘Wilt thou love God’ 12. ‘Father, part of his double interest’ Verses translated for Ignatius his Conclave Good Friday: Made as I was Riding Westward that Day To Mr George Herbert with my Seal of the Anchor and Christ Sonnet: ‘Since she whom I loved’ To Christ Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke his Sister At the Seaside, going over with the Lord Doncaster into Germany, 1619 The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremellius Hymn to God my God in my Sickness Wedding Celebrations Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn An Epithalamion on the Lady Elizabeth and Frederick, Count Palatine Eclogue and Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset Verse epistles to Patronesses To Lady Bedford at New Year’s Tide To the Countess of Bedford(‘Reason’) To Mrs Magdalen Herbert(‘Mad paper, stay’) To the Countess of Bedford(‘You have refined me’) To the Countess of Bedford(‘Honour is so sublime perfection’) To the Countess of Huntingdon To the Countess of Bedford(‘To’ve written then’) To the Honourable Lady the Lady Carey To the Countess of Bedford(‘Your cabinet my tomb’) To the Countess of Bedford (begun in France) To the Countess of Salisbury Commemorations Elegy: To the Lady Bedford(‘You that are she’) An Elegy upon the Death of Lady Markham An Elegy upon the Death of Mistress Bulstrode: ‘Death, I recant’ Elegy on Mistress Bulstrode[by Lady Bedford] Elegy upon the Death of Mistress Bulstrode: ‘Language, thou art too narrow’ Elegy on Prince Henry Obsequies to the Lord Harington, Brother to the Countess of Bedford A Hymn to the Saints and Marquis of Hamilton The Anniversaries To the Praise of the Dead and ‘The Anatomy’[by Joseph Hall] The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World A Funeral Elegy The Harbinger to the Progress[by Joseph Hall] The Second Anniversary: Of the Progress of the Soul A Probable Attribution Ignatius Loyolae _ðoèÝùóéò Dubia Sappho to Philaenis The Token Variety