John Donne Selected Poems Author:John Donne, D. J. Enright (Editor) Go and catch a falling star. — Get with child a mandrake root. — Tell me, where all the past years are. — Or who cleft the devil's foot. — Teach me to hear mermaids singing. — Or to keep off envy's stinging. — And find — What wind — Serves to advance an honest mind. — --from "Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star)" — From "The Flea," a sly and witty sonnet of... more » seduction, to his celestial and holy "A Hymn to Christ," John Donne's poems capture both love and death, earthly and heavenly passion. Here are his most beautiful songs and sonnets; elegies and epithalamiums (poems in honor of a bride and groom); satires, verse letters, and poems of the Divine--a portrait of Donne's range and magnificence. These more than 65 works include "The Good-Morrow," "Airs and Angels," "A Nocturnal View on St. Lucy's Day," "The Bait," and "Upon the Annunciation and Passion."
This is a Barnes & Nobel Poetry Library selection.« less