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About John Donne

English metaphysical poet and cleric in the Church of England. Known for his vivid imagery, intellectual complexity, and inventive use of conceits.

More poems by John Donne

• Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud — John Donne
• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the First — John Donne (1812)
• A Hymn To God The Father — John Donne
• Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified — John Donne
• Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow — John Donne
• Air And Angels — John Donne
• Celestial Music — John Donne
• Holy Sonnet I: Tho Has Made Me — John Donne

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More Humor & Wit poems

• A Sea Dirge — Lewis Carroll
• Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot; or, Prologue to the Satires. — Alexander Pope
• Epitaph. Another, on the Same. — Alexander Pope
• If Loue be blind — John Milton
• Mac Flecknoe — John Dryden
• No, Thank You John — Christina Rossetti
• Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff — John Keats
• Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) — Lord Alfred Tennyson

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