《John Donne Selected Poems》第11章


so these extremes shall neer their office do ;
love me; that i may die the gentler way ;
hate me; because thy loves too great for me ;
or let these two; themselves; not me; decay ;
so shall i live thy stage; not triumph be。
lest thou thy love and hate; and me undo;
o let me live; yet love and hate me too。 
the expiration。
so; so; break off this last lamenting kiss;
which sucks two souls; and vapours both away ;
turn; thou ghost; that way; and let me turn this;
and let ourselves benight our happiest day。
we ask none leave to love ; nor will we owe
any so cheap a death as saying; 〃go。〃
go ; and if that word have not quite killed thee;
ease me with death; by bidding me go too。
or; if it have; let my word work on me;
and a just office on a murderer do。
except it be too late; to kill me so;
being double dead; going; and bidding; 〃go。〃
the putation。
for my first twenty years; since yesterday;
i scarce believed thou couldst be gone away ; 
for forty more i fed on favours past; 
and forty on hopes that thou wouldst they might last ; 
tears drownd one hundred; and sighs blew out two ;
a thousand; i did neither think nor do; 
or not divide; all being one thought of you ;
or in a thousand more; forgot that too。
yet call not this long life ; but think that i
am; by being dead; immortal ; can ghosts die ? 
the paradox。
no lover saith; i love; nor any other 
can judge a perfect lover ; 
he thinks that else none can or will agree;
that any loves but he ;
i cannot say i loved; for who can say 
he was killd yesterday。
love with excess of heat; more young than old; 
death kills with too much cold ;
we die but once; and who loved last did die; 
he that saith; twice; doth lie ;
for though he seem to move; and stir a while;
it doth the sense beguile。 
such life is like the light which bideth yet
when the lifes light is set;
or like the heat which fire in solid matter
leaves behind; two hours after。 
once i loved and died ; and am now bee 
mine epitaph and tomb ;
here dead men speak their last; and so do i ;
love…slain; lo ! here i die。 
song。
souls joy; now i am gone;
and you alone;
—which cannot be;
since i must leave myself with thee;
and carry thee with me—
yet when unto our eyes
absence denies
each others sight;
and makes to us a constant night;
when others change to light ;
o give no way to grief;
but let belief
of mutual love
this wonder to the vulgar prove;
our bodies; not we move。
let not thy wit beweep
words but sense deep ;
for when we miss
by distance our hopes joining bliss;
even then our souls shall kiss ;
fools have no means to meet;
but by their feet ;
why should our clay
over our spirits so much sway;
to tie us to that way?
o give no way to grief; &c。
farewell to love。
whilst yet to prove 
i thought there was some deity in love; 
so did i reverence; and gave 
worship ; as atheists at their dying hour 
call; what they cannot name; an unknown power; 
as ignorantly did i crave。 
thus when 
things not yet known are coveted by men; 
our desires give them fashion; and so 
as they wax lesser; fall; as they size; grow。 
but; from late fair; 
his highness sitting in a golden chair; 
is not less cared for after three days 
by children; than the thing which lovers so 
blindly admire; and with such worship woo ; 
being had; enjoying it decays ; 
and thence; 
what before pleased them all; takes but one sense; 
and that so lamely; as it leaves behind 
a kind of sorrowing dulness to the mind。 
ah cannot we; 
as well as cocks and lions; jocund be 
after such pleasures; unless wise 
nature decreed—since each such act; they say; 
diminisheth the length of life a day— 
this ; as she would man should despise 
the sport; 
because that other curse of being short; 
and only for a minute made to be 
eager; desires to raise posterity。 
since so; my mind 
shall not desire what no man else can find ; 
ill no more dote and run 
to pursue things which had endamaged me ; 
and when i e where moving beauties be; 
as men do when the summers sun 
grows great; 
though i admire their greatness; shun their heat。 
each place can afford shadows ; if all fail; 
tis but applying worm…seed to the tail。 
a lecture upon the shadow。
stand still; and i will read to thee
a lecture; love; in loves philosophy。
these three hours that we have spent;
walking here; two shadows went
along with us; which we ourselves produced。
but; now the sun is just above our head;
we do those shadows tread;
and to brave clearness all things are reduced。
so whilst our infant loves did grow;
disguises did; and shadows; flow
from us and our cares ; but now tis not so。
that love hath not attaind the highest degree;
which is still diligent lest others see。
except our loves at this noon stay;
we shall new shadows make the other way。
as the first were made to blind
others; these which e behind
will work upon ourselves; and blind our eyes。
if our loves faint; and westerwardly decline;
to me thou; falsely; thine
and i to thee mine actions shall disguise。
the morning shadows wear away;
but these grow longer all the day ;
but o ! loves day is short; if love decay。
love is a growing; or full constant light;
and his short minute; after noon; is night。
a dialogue between sir henry wotton and
mr。 donne。
'w。'
if her disdain least change in you can move;
you do not love;
for when that hope gives fuel to the fire;
you sell desire。
love is not love; but given free ;
and so is mine ; so should yours be。
'd。'
her heart; that weeps to hear of others moan;
to mine is stone。
her eyes; that weep a strangers eyes to see;
joy to wound me。
yet i so well affect each part;
as—caused by them—i love my smart。
'w。'
say her disdainings justly must be graced
with name of chaste ;
and that she frowns lest longing should exceed;
and rag
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