John Donne Quotes on Separation
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When I died last, and dear, I die As often as from thee I go.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
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Absence, hear thou my protestation Against thy strength, Distance, and length; Do what thou canst for alteration
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What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?