Quote #13

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

More from John Donne

  1. She is all states, and all princes, I, Nothing else is.
  2. The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and pro…
  3. Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
  4. As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
  5. Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
  6. I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry.
  7. And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
  8. Who are a little wise, the best fools be.

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