The Poems of John Donne

Robin Robbins is a fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. He has published numerous articles on the Renaissance period and produced a large scholarly edition of Sir Thomas Browne's 'Pseudoxia Epidemica'.

CONTENTS



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Religion........................................................................................................................................

Sonnet: 'Show me, dear Christ'



Of the Cross



La Corona

1. 'Deign at my hands'

2. Annunciation

3. Nativity

4. Temple

5. Crucifying

6. Resurrection

7. Ascension



To Mrs Magdalen Herbert: Of St Mary Magdalen

Upon the Annunciation when Good Friday Fell upon the Same Day

Sonnet: 'Oh, to vex me'

A Litany

Resurrection(imperfect)



Divine Meditations

1. 'Thou hast made me'

2. 'As due by many titles'

3. 'Oh might those sighs and tears'

4. 'Father, part of his double interest'

5. 'O my black soul!'




6. 'This is my play's last scene'

7. 'I am a little world'

8. 'At the round earth's imagined corners'

9. 'If poisonous minerals'

10. 'If faithful souls'

11. 'Death, be not proud'

12. 'Wilt thou love God'



Holy Sonnets

1. 'As due by many titles'

2. 'O my black soul!'

3. 'This is my play's last scene'

4. 'At the round earth's imagined corners'

5. 'If poisonous minerals'

6. 'Death, be not proud'

7. 'Spit in my face'

8. 'Why are we'

9. 'What if this present'

10. 'Batter my heart'

11. 'Wilt thou love God'

12. 'Father, part of his double interest'



Verses translated for Ignatius his Conclave



Good Friday: Made as I was Riding Westward that Day

To Mr George Herbert with my Seal of the Anchor and Christ

Sonnet: 'Since she whom I loved'

To Christ

Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney and

the Countess of Pembroke his Sister

At the Seaside, going over with the Lord Doncaster into Germany, 1619

The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremellius

Hymn to God my God in my Sickness

Wedding Celebrations .................................................................................................

Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn

An Epithalamion on the Lady Elizabeth and Frederick, Count Palatine

Eclogue and Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset

Verse epistles to Patronesses

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To Lady Bedford at New Year's Tide

To the Countess of Bedford('Reason')

To Mrs Magdalen Herbert('Mad paper, stay')

To the Countess of Bedford('You have refined me')

To the Countess of Bedford('Honour is so sublime perfection')

To the Countess of Huntingdon

To the Countess of Bedford('To've written then')

To the Honourable Lady the Lady Carey

To the Countess of Bedford('Your cabinet my tomb')

To the Countess of Bedford (begun in France)

To the Countess of Salisbury

Commemorations........................................................................................................................

Elegy: To the Lady Bedford('You that are she')

An Elegy upon the Death of Lady Markham

An Elegy upon the Death of Mistress Bulstrode: 'Death, I recant'

Elegy on Mistress Bulstrode[by Lady Bedford]

Elegy upon the Death of Mistress Bulstrode: 'Language, thou art too narrow'

Elegy on Prince Henry

Obsequies to the Lord Harington, Brother to the Countess of Bedford

A Hymn to the Saints and Marquis of Hamilton

The Anniversaries

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To the Praise of the Dead and 'The Anatomy'[by Joseph Hall]

The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World

A Funeral Elegy

The Harbinger to the Progress[by Joseph Hall]

The Second Anniversary: Of the Progress of the Soul

A Probable Attribution

Ignatius Loyolae _doeYuoeo

Dubia............................................................................................................................................

Sappho to Philaenis

The Expostulation

His Parting from her

Julia

A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife

Sir Walter Aston to the Countess of Huntingdon

The Token

Variety

Self-Love



Bibliography................................................................................................................................

Index of titles and first lines