John Donne Selected Poems-9
ger, desires to raise posterity.
Since so, my mind
S desire w no man else can find ;
Ill no more dote and run
to pursue things which had endamaged me ;
And wies be,
As men do whe summers sun
Gro,
tness, s.
Each place can afford shadows ; if all fail,
tis but applying o tail.
StAND still, and I o thee
A lecture, Love, in Loves philosophy.
t we ,
alking wo s
Along h us, which we ourselves produced.
But, no above our head,
e do tread,
And to brave clearness all things are reduced.
So loves did grow,
Disguises did, and shadows, flow
From us and our cares ; but nois not so.
t love attaind t degree,
ill diligent lest others see.
Except our loves at tay,
e sher way.
As t o blind
Othese which come behind
ill work upon ourselves, and blind our eyes.
If our loves faint, and erwardly decline,
to me thine
And I to tions shall disguise.
the morning shadows wear away,
But the day ;
But O ! loves day is s, if love decay.
Love is a groant light,
And minute, after noon, is night.
[.]
IF change in you can move,
You do not love,
For he fire,
You sell desire.
Love is not love, but given free ;
And so is mine ; so should yours be.
[D.]
, t o hers moan,
to mine is stone.