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John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England.

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List of poems by John Donne 191 total

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Air And Angels
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No Man Is An Island
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The Broken Heart
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For whom the Bell Tolls
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Death Be Not Proud
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The Canonization
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Daybreak
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Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed
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Elegy III: Change
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Self-Love
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An Anatomy Of The World...
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Love's Growth
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Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
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Annunciation
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A Litany
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Community
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The Primrose
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The Undertaking
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La Corona
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The Flea
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The Ecstasy
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Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
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Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, to Vex Me
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The Bait
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Love's Usury
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Elegy VIII: The Comparison
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Witchcraft By A Picture
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A Hymn To God The Father
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Negative Love
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Love's Exchange
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The Paradox
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The Will
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An Obscure Writer
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The Dissolution
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A Fever
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Farewell to Love
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A Lecture Upon The Shadow
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Temple
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Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God
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The Legacy
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Elegy XVIII: Love's Progress
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Nativity
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Holy Sonnet XIII: What If This Present Were The World's Last Night?
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Holy Sonnet IV: Oh my black soul!
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Crucifying
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The Sun Rising
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Elegy II: The Anagram
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A Burnt Ship
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Twickenham Garden
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Love's Alchemy
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Pyramus and Thisbe
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Elegy VII
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Hero and Leander
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Song
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The Prohibition
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Raderus
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ElegyXI: The Bracelet
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Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud
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Fall of a Wall
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Ascension
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Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
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Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree
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Valediction to his Book
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A Lame Beggar
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Epithalamion Made At Lincoln's Inn
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Elegy XX (Alternate) Love's War
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Holy Sonnet II: As Due By Many Titles I Resign
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Go and Catch a Falling Star
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The Damp
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Elegy X: The Dream
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Satire II
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
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The Annunciation And Passion
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Elegy XVI: On His Mistress
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Niobe
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Break of Day
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Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One
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Elegy XVI: The Expostulation
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Holy Sonnet XVIII: Show me, dear Christ
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A Jet Ring Sent
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Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Made Cunningly
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A Valediction: of Weeping
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Holy Sonnet XII: Why Are We
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Love's Infiniteness
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Song: Go and catch a falling star
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Eclogue
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That Time and Absence proves Rather helps than hurts to loves
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A Self Accuser
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To The Countess Of Bedford I
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Confined Love
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Death
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Elegy:The End of Funeral Elegies
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Holy Sonnet X
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Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God
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To Mr. Rowland Woodward
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Satire III
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The Token
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Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jewes
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Holy Sonnet XII: Why Are We By All Creatures Waited On?
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Elegy XX: To His Mistress Going to Bed
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The Curse
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Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jews, And Pierce My Side
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A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, Being The Shortest Day
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TO Mr.T.W.
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To Sir Henry Wotton II
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Love's Deity
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Antiquary
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Elegy IV: The Perfume
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The Anniversary
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To His Mistress Going to Bed
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To The Countess Of Bedford II
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Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God
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Holy Sonnet XIII: What If This Present
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Oh my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned
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Woman's Constancy
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Elegy IX: The Autumnal
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Good Morrow
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Ressurection
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Elegy I: Jealousy
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Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart
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Resurrection, imperfect
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To The Praise Of The Dead And The Anatomy
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Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God, As He Thee? Then Digest
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The Calm
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Elegy XII
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The Triple Fool
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Ode
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Holy Sonnet XVIII: Show me, dear Christ, thy Spouse, so bright and clear
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Satire IV
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Holy Sonnet VI: This Is My Playes Last Scene
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Elegy VI
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The Message
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Sonnet Cycle For Lady Magdalen
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Klockius
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Phryne
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Love's Diet
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A dialogue between Sir Henry Wootton and Mr. Donne
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Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One
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Satire I
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The Computation
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A Hymn To Christ At The Author's Last Going Into Germany
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On The Progress Of The Soul...
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To The Lady Magdalen Herbert, Of St. Mary Magdalen
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The Indifferent
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A Sheaf Of Snakes Used Heretofore To Be My Seal, The Crest Of Our Poor Family
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Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified
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Holy Sonnet X:Death be not proud
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To Sir Henry Goodyere
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Elegy XIII: His Parting From Her
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From ‘The Cross’
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Holy Sonnet III: O Might Those Sighes
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The Blossom
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The Relic
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Holy Sonnet ?
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Holy Sonnet XIV
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To mr. I. P.
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At the round earth's imagin'd corners
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Holy Sonnet II: As Due by Many Titles
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Sweetest Love, I do not go
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Holy Sonnet VII: At the Round Earth's
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The Expiration
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Holy Sonnet XVI: Father, Part Of His Double Interest
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TO Mr.I.L.
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Hym To God, My God In My Sickness
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The Dream
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TO Mr. Samuel Brooke
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Elegy V: His Picture
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Elegy XVII: On His Mistress
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A Licentious Person
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The Funerall
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Holy Sonnet V: I Am a Little World
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Holy Sonnet XVII: Since She Whom I Loved
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To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders
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A Valediction Of Weeping
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The Apparation
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To The Earl Of Doncaster
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Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow
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Upon The Translation Of The Psalms By Sir Philip Sidney And The Countess Of Pembroke, His Sister
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Disinherited
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HOLY SONNETS: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
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To George Herbert,
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Satire V
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Translated Out Of Gazaeus,
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Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithfull Soules
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To Sir Henry Wotton At His Going Ambassador To Venice
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Break of Day (another of the same)
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Elegy XIV: Julia
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The Harbinger
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Ralphius
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On the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine Being Married on St. Valentine's Day
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Holy Sonnet XVI: Father
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  • dougb.72572
    The Holy Sonnets by John Donne are most helpful and reassuring…Douglas Blair
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • person_u
    Donne's development of thought and critical appreciation of Twickenham Garden cannot be neglected. It's a masterpiece of English literature.
    LikeReply2 years ago

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