《John Donne Selected Poems》第8章


who will believe me; if i swear
that i have had the plague a year?
who would not laugh at me; if i should say
i saw a flash of powder burn a day?
ah; what a trifle is a heart;
if once into loves hands it e !
all other griefs allow a part
to other griefs; and ask themselves but some ;
they e to us; but us love draws ;
he swallows us and never chaws ;
by him; as by chaind shot; whole ranks do die ;
he is the tyrant pike; our hearts the fry。
if twere not so; what did bee
of my heart when i first saw thee?
i brought a heart into the room;
but from the room i carried none with me。
if it had gone to thee; i know
mine would have taught thine heart to show
more pity unto me ; but love; alas !
at one first blow did shiver it as glass。
yet nothing can to nothing fall;
nor any place be empty quite ;
therefore i think my breast hath all
those pieces still; though they be not unite ;
and now; as broken glasses show
a hundred lesser faces; so
my rags of heart can like; wish; and adore;
but after one such love; can love no more。
the ecstacy。
where; like a pillow on a bed; 
a pregnant bank swelld up; to rest 
the violets reclining head; 
sat we two; one anothers best。 
our hands were firmly cemented 
by a fast balm; which thence did spring ; 
our eye…beams twisted; and did thread 
our eyes upon one double string。 
so to engraft our hands; as yet 
was all the means to make us one ; 
and pictures in our eyes to get 
was all our propagation。 
as; twixt two equal armies; fate 
suspends uncertain victory; 
our souls—which to advance their state; 
were gone out—hung twixt her and me。 
and whilst our souls negotiate there; 
we like sepulchral statues lay ; 
all day; the same our postures were; 
and we said nothing; all the day。
if any; so by love refined; 
that he souls language understood; 
and by good love were grown all mind; 
within convenient distance stood; 
he—though he knew not which soul spake; 
because both meant; both spake the same— 
might thence a new concoction take; 
and part far purer than he came。 
this ecstasy doth unperplex 
(we said) and tell us what we love ; 
we see by this; it was not sex ; 
we see; we saw not; what did move : 
but as all several souls contain 
mixture of things they know not what; 
love these mixd souls doth mix again; 
and makes both one; each this; and that。 
a single violet transplant; 
the strength; the colour; and the size— 
all which before was poor and scant— 
redoubles still; and multiplies。 
when love with one another so 
interanimates two souls; 
that abler soul; which thence doth flow; 
defects of loneliness controls。
we then; who are this new soul; know; 
of what we are posed; and made; 
for th atomies of which we grow 
are souls; whom no change can invade。 
but; o alas ! so long; so far; 
our bodies why do we forbear? 
they are ours; though not we ; we are 
th intelligences; they the spheres。 
we owe them thanks; because they thus 
did us; to us; at first convey; 
yielded their senses force to us; 
nor are dross to us; but allay。 
on man heavens influence works not so; 
but that it first imprints the air ; 
for soul into the soul may flow; 
though it to body first repair。 
as our blood labours to beget 
spirits; as like souls as it can ; 
because such fingers need to knit 
that subtle knot; which makes us man ; 
so must pure lovers souls descend 
to affections; and to faculties; 
which sense may reach and apprehend; 
else a great prince in prison lies。
to our bodies turn we then; that so 
weak men on love reveald may look ; 
loves mysteries in souls do grow; 
but yet the body is his book。 
and if some lover; such as we; 
have heard this dialogue of one; 
let him still mark us; he shall see 
small change when were to bodies gone。
loves deity。
i long to talk with some old lovers ghost;
who died before the god of love was born。
i cannot think that he; who then loved most;
sunk so low as to love one which did scorn。
but since this god produced a destiny;
and that vice…nature; custom; lets it be;
i must love her that loves not me。
sure; they which made him god; meant not so much;
nor he in his young godhead practised it。
but when an even flame two hearts did touch;
his office was indulgently to fit
actives to passives。 correspondency
only his subject was ; it cannot be
love; till i love her; who loves me。
but every modern god will now extend
his vast prerogative as far as jove。
to rage; to lust; to write to; to mend;
all is the purlieu of the god of love。
o ! were we wakend by this tyranny
to ungod this child again; it could not be
i should love her; who loves not me。
rebel and atheist too; why murmur i;
as though i felt the worst that love could do?
love might make me leave loving; or might try
a deeper plague; to make her love me too ;
which; since she loves before; im loth to see。
falsehood is worse than hate ; and that must be;
if she whom i love; should love me。
。。
John Donne Selected Poems…8

loves diet。
to what a cumbersome unwieldiness 
and burdenous corpulence my love had grown;
but that i did; to make it less; 
and keep it in proportion; 
give it a diet; made it feed upon
that which love worst endures; discretion
above one sigh a day i allowd him not; 
of which my fortune; and my faults had part ; 
and if sometimes by stealth he got 
a she sigh from my mistress heart;
and thought to feast upon that; i let him see
twas neither very sound; nor meant to me。 
if he wrung from me a tear; i brined it so 
with scorn and shame; that him it nourishd not ;
if he suckd hers; i let him know 
twas not a tear which he had got ; 
his drink was counterfeit; as was his meat ;
for eyes; which roll towards all; weep not; but sweat。
whatever he would dictate i writ that;
but burnt her letters when she writ to me ;
and if that favour m
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