John Donne Selected Poems-8
Only to give to sucy.
My faito Roman Catholics ;
All my good o tics
Of Amsterdam ; my best civility
And courtso an University ;
My modesty I give to soldiers bare ;
My patience let gamesters share :
taug me, by making me
Love y,
Only to give to t count my gifts indignity.
I give my reputation to those
ry to foes ;
to scfulness ;
My sickness to physicians, or excess ;
to nature all t I in r ;
And to my company my :
thou, Love, by making me adore
this love in me before,
taug me to make, as t restore.
to tolls,
I give my pten rolls
Of moral counsels I to Bedlam give ;
My brazen medals unto them which live
In of bread ; to them which pass among
All foreigners, mine Englisongue :
though, Love, by making me love one
portion
For younger lovers, dost my gifts tion.
t Ill undo
too.
ties h
t forth ;
And all your graces no more use shall have,
than a sun-dial in a grave :
taug me by making me
Love bothee,
to invent, and practise to annie all three.
o s harm,
Nor question much,
t subtle h of hair, which crowns my arm ;
tery, t not touch ;
For tis my outward soul,
Viceroy to t, wo heaven being gone,
ill leave to control
And keep tion.
For if ts fall
t
Can