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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Does absence make the heart grow fonder? John Donne, our poet who believes so strongly in the united souls of lovers, asks himself what happens to this harmony when th...
The Ecstasy: A Dialogue of One
When you love someone, do you love them with your soul, mind, or body? Is love by one of the faculties superior to that of the others? John Donne meditates on this the...
Since She Whom I Lov'd Hath Paid Her Last Debt: A Holy Thirsty Dropsy
Is it possible to have enough love to be content? Can a Christian be content with God's love, being that God is infinite, or will he always crave more of God? And what...
Start Close In: The Ground You Know
Can you know others without knowing yourself? This is the question which David Whyte interrogates in "Start Close In," as he examines what it means to cross over into ...
Pied Beauty: Dappled Things
We tend to think of beauty in terms of purity and proportion, but Hopkins upends those conventional ideas in "Pied Beauty." Instead, he proposes that God "fathers-fort...