《John Donne Selected Poems》第2章


or; if they do; deride ;
then you have done a braver thing 
than all the worthies did ; 
and a braver thence will spring; 
which is; to keep that hid。
the sun rising。
busy old fool; unruly sun; 
why dost thou thus;
through windows; and through curtains; call on us ? 
must to thy motions lovers seasons run ? 
saucy pedantic wretch; go chide 
late school…boys and sour prentices; 
go tell court…huntsmen that the king will ride; 
call country ants to harvest offices ;
love; all alike; no season knows nor clime; 
nor hours; days; months; which are the rags of time。 
thy beams so reverend; and strong 
why shouldst thou think ? 
i could eclipse and cloud them with a wink; 
but that i would not lose her sight so long。 
if her eyes have not blinded thine; 
look; and to…morrow late tell me; 
whether both th indias of spice and mine 
be where thou leftst them; or lie here with me。 
ask for those kings whom thou sawst yesterday; 
and thou shalt hear; 〃all here in one bed lay。〃 
shes all states; and all princes i ;
nothing else is ; 
princes do but play us ; pared to this; 
all honours mimic; all wealth alchemy。 
thou; sun; art half as happy as we; 
in that the worlds contracted thus ; 
thine age asks ease; and since thy duties be 
to warm the world; thats done in warming us。 
shine here to us; and thou art everywhere ; 
this bed thy center is; these walls thy sphere。
the indifferent。
i can love both fair and brown ;
her whom abundance melts; and her whom want betrays ;
her who loves loneness best; and her who masks and plays ;
her whom the country formd; and whom the town ;
her who believes; and her who tries ;
her who still weeps with spongy eyes;
and her who is dry cork; and never cries。
i can love her; and her; and you; and you ;
i can love any; so she be not true。
will no other vice content you ?
will it not serve your turn to do as did your mothers ?
or have you all old vices spent; and now would find out others ?
or doth a fear that men are true torment you ?
o we are not; be not you so ;
let me—and do you—twenty know ;
rob me; but bind me not; and let me go。
must i; who came to travel thorough you;
grow your fixd subject; because you are true ?
venus heard me sigh this song ;
and by loves sweetest part; variety; she swore;
she heard not this till now ; and that it should be so no more。
she went; examined; and returnd ere long;
and said; 〃alas ! some two or three
poor heretics in love there be;
which think to stablish dangerous constancy。
but i have told them; since you will be true;
you shall be true to them whore false to you。 〃
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John Donne Selected Poems…3
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loves usury。
for every hour that thou wilt spare me now;
i will allow;
usurious god of love; twenty to thee;
when with my brown my gray hairs equal be。
till then; love; let my body range; and let
me travel; sojourn; snatch; plot; have; forget;
resume my last years relict ; think that yet
wed never met。
let me think any rivals letter mine;
and at next nine
keep midnights promise ; mistake by the way
the maid; and tell the lady of that delay ;
only let me love none ; no; not the sport
from country grass to confitures of court;
or citys quelque…choses ; let not report
my mind transport。
this bargains good ; if when im old; i be
inflamed by thee;
if thine own honour; or my shame and pain;
thou covet most; at that age thou shalt gain。
do thy will then ; then subject and degree
and fruit of love; love; i submit to thee。
spare me till then ; ill bear it; though she be
one that love me。
the canonization。
for gods sake hold your tongue; and let me love ;
or chide my palsy; or my gout ;
my five gray hairs; or ruind fortune flout ;
with wealth your state; your mind with arts improve ;
take you a course; get you a place; 
observe his honour; or his grace ;
or the kings real; or his stampd face 
contemplate ; what you will; approve; 
so you will let me love。
alas ! alas ! whos injured by my love? 
what merchants ships have my sighs drownd?
who says my tears have overflowd his ground? 
when did my colds a forward spring remove? 
when did the heats which my veins fill 
add one more to the plaguy bill?
soldiers find wars; and lawyers find out still 
litigious men; which quarrels move; 
though she and i do love。
calls what you will; we are made such by love ; 
call her one; me another fly;
were tapers too; and at our own cost die; 
and we in us find th eagle and the dove。 
the phoenix riddle hath more wit 
by us ; we two being one; are it ;
so; to one neutral thing both sexes fit。 
we die and rise the same; and prove 
mysterious by this love。
we can die by it; if not live by love; 
and if unfit for tomb or hearse
our legend be; it will be fit for verse ; 
and if no piece of chronicle we prove; 
well build in sonnets pretty rooms ; 
as well a well…wrought urn bees
the greatest ashes; as half…acre tombs; 
and by these hymns; all shall approve 
us canonized for love ;
and thus invoke us; 〃you; whom reverend love 
made one anothers hermitage ;
you; to whom love was peace; that now is rage ;
who did the whole worlds soul contract; and drove 
into the glasses of your eyes ;
so made such mirrors; and such spies;
that they did all to you epitomize—
countries; towns; courts beg from above 
a pattern of your love。〃
the triple fool。
i am two fools; i know; 
for loving; and for saying so
in whining poetry ;
but wheres that wise man; that would not be i;
if she would not deny ?
then as th earths inward narrow crooked lanes
do purge sea waters fretful salt away;
i thought; if i could draw my pains
through rhymes vexation; i should them allay。
grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce;
for he tames it; that fetters it in verse。
but when i have done so;
some man; his art and voice to show;
doth set and sing my pain ;
and; by deligh
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