John Donne Selected Poems-5
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.
Some man uno be possessor
Of old or new love, himself being false or weak,
t his pain and shame would be lesser,
If on womankind his anger wreak ;
And thence a law did grow,
One mig one man know ;
But are otures so?
Are sun, moon, or stars by law forbidden
to smile ?
Are birds divorced or are they chidden
If te, or lie abroad a night?
Beasts do no jointures lose
they new lovers choose ;
But hose.
o lie in harbours,
And not to seek lands, or not to deal h all?
Or built fair trees, and arbours,
Only to lock up, or else to let them fall?
Good is not good, unless
A t possess,
But dote h greediness.
DEAR love, for nothee
ould I his happy dream ;
It heme
For reason, mucoo strong for fantasy.
t me
My dream t not, but continuedst it.
t so true t ts of thee suffice
to make dreams trutories ;
Enter tst it best,
Not to dream all my dream, lets act t.
As ligapers light,
t thy noise waked me ;
Yet I t thee
—For t trut first sight ;
But w my ,
And kne my ts beyond an angels art,
, w when
Excess of joy then,
I must confess, it could not c b