Monday, November 28, 2011

Meet John Donne


Here are some prime cuts from John Donne:

I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.

- from "The Triple Fool"

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
- from "Elegy II: The Anagram"

Any man's death diminishes me, because
I am involved in Mankind; And therefore
never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.

- from "Meditation XVII"


Click here for more on John Donne, the great poet, lawyer, world explorer, chaplain, preahcer, womanizer, and [eventual] family man.