Quote #51
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
More from John Donne
- Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
- She, and comparisons are odious.
- Absence, hear thou my protestation Against thy strength, Distance, and length; Do what thou canst for alteration
- No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
- When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfacti…
- The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.
- Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
- Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.