John Donne Selected Poems-5
unto thee ;
And to love new ,
As princes do in times of action get
Neaxes, and remit t in peace,
No er se this spring抯 increase.
LOVE, any devil else but you
ould for a given soul give sometoo.
At court your fellows every day
Give t of rsmanship, or play,
For their own before ;
Only I hing, 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 to draw
A non obstante on natures law ;
tives, they inhere
In thine ; none should forswear
Except t he Loves minion were.
Give me thy weakness, make me blind,
Bothine, in eyes and mind ;
Love, let me never kno this
Is love, or, t love childish is ;
Let me not kno others know
t s t so
A tender shame make me mine own new woe.
If t t just,
Because I t motions trust ;
Small toiff, till great s
Enforce tion not ;
Such in Loves warfare is my case ;
I may not article for grace,
Love at last to shis face.
this face, by which he could command
And cry of any land,
t comes,
Can call voers, dead from tombs,
And melt bot once, and store
Deserts ies, and make more
Mines in than quarries were before.
For th me,
Yet kills not ; if I must example be
to future rebels, if th unborn