Selected Poems

John Donne

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780486277882
• eBook ISBN:
  9780486153599
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

Considered by many critics the foremost English "metaphysical" poet, John Donne (1572–1631) earned renown for both sacred and secular verse, his love poems in the latter genre ranking among his most original and popular works. Brilliant and wide-ranging, Donne's verse is distinguished by its passion, insight, and inspired use of striking metaphors or "conceits." This volume contains a rich selection of the poet's best work, including, from the Songs and Sonnets: "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"; from the Elegies: "On His Mistress" and "To His Mistress Going to Bed"; a selection from the Holy Sonnets (including "Death Be Not Proud"); "Good Friday. 1613. Riding Westward," "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" and many more.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Note
• Table of Contents
• The Good Morrow
• Song
• Woman’s Constancy
• The Undertaking
• The Sun Rising
• The Indifferent
• The Canonization
• The Triple Fool
• Song
• The Legacy
• A Fever
• Air and Angels
• Break of Day
• The Anniversary
• A Valediction: of My Name, in the Window
• Twickenham Garden
• A Valediction: of Weeping
• The Flea
• The Curse
• A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day
• Witchcraft by a Picture
• The Bait
• The Apparition
• The Broken Heart
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
• The Ecstasy
• Love’s Deity
• The Funeral
• The Blossom
• The Relic
• A Lecture upon the Shadow
• A Burnt Ship
• Fall of a Wall
• Cales and Guiana
• An Obscure Writer
• The Liar
• Elegy I: Jealousy
• Elegy II: The Anagram
• Elegy V: His Picture
• Elegy IX: The Autumnal
• Elegy XVI: On His Mistress
• Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed
• An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine Being Married on St. Valentine’s Day
• Satire I
• Satire III
• To Mr. Christopher Brooke
• To Mr. Rowland Woodward
• To the Countess of Bedford on New Year’s Day
• Elegy on the Lady Markham
• La Corona
• Holy Sonnets
• Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
• A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s Last Going into Germany
• Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
• A Hymn to God the Father
• Alphabetical List of Titles
• Alphabetical List of First Lines
• DOVER · THRIFT · EDITIONS