Quote #68

What if this present were the world's last night?

More from John Donne

  1. One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
  2. Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.
  3. Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sle…
  4. Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear.
  5. Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthro…
  6. I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease.
  7. If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be dam…
  8. A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat.

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