John Donne

Quotes

• “Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; / For, thus friends absent speak.”

• “Go and catch a falling star, / Get with child a mandrake root, / Tell me where all 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.”

• “She, she is dead; she’s dead; when thou know’st this, / Thou know’st how dry a cinder this world is.”

• “If they be two, they are two so / As stiff twin compasses are two, / Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show / To move, but doth, if the other do.”

Books by John Donne in order

Books by John Donne in the order they were published, from Pseudo-martyr (1610) to John Donne Selected Poems (2003).

1. 1Pseudo-martyrPseudo-martyr1610
2. 2Poems of John DonnePoems of John Donne1633
3. 3Major WorksMajor Works2000
4. 4John Donne Selected PoemsJohn Donne Selected Poems2003
5. 5BiathanatosBiathanatos
6. 6Devotions upon Emergent OccasionsDevotions upon Emergent Occasions
7. 7Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's DuelDevotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
8. 8DonneDonne
9. 9Donne's SermonsDonne's Sermons
10. 10John Donne's PoetryJohn Donne's Poetry
11. 11Selected PoemsSelected Poems
12. 12Selected ProseSelected Prose
13. 13Sermons on the Psalms and GospelsSermons on the Psalms and Gospels
14. 14The Complete Poetry of John DonneThe Complete Poetry of John Donne
15. 15The Divine PoemsThe Divine Poems
16. 16The Elegies, and The Songs and SonnetsThe Elegies, and The Songs and Sonnets
17. 17The Essential DonneThe Essential Donne
18. 18The FleaThe Flea
19. 19The Love Poems of John DonneThe Love Poems of John Donne
20. 20The Sermons of John DonneThe Sermons of John Donne
21. 21The Songs and SonnetsThe Songs and Sonnets
22. 22The Works of John DonneThe Works of John Donne