The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7, Part 1: The Holy SonnetsJohn Donne, Gary A. Stringer, Paul A. Parrish Praise for previous volumes: This is the 4th volume of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne to appear. This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time through 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorial sequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the scribal collection -- which contains unique authorial versions of several of the sonnets -- inscribed by Donne's friend Rowland Woodward in the Westmoreland manuscript. |
Contents
XCV | 133 |
XCVI | 146 |
XCVII | 157 |
XCVIII | 168 |
XCIX | 176 |
C | 178 |
CI | 186 |
CII | 201 |
IX | ciii |
X | 5 |
XIV | 6 |
XVI | 7 |
XVIII | 8 |
XXI | 9 |
XXIV | 10 |
XXV | 11 |
XXIX | 12 |
XXXI | 13 |
XXXIV | 14 |
XXXVII | 15 |
XL | 16 |
XLII | 17 |
XLIII | 18 |
XLV | 19 |
XLIX | 20 |
L | 21 |
LV | 22 |
LVII | 23 |
LX | 24 |
LXII | 25 |
LXIV | 26 |
LXVIII | 27 |
LXIX | 31 |
LXXIII | 35 |
LXXIV | 39 |
LXXV | 43 |
LXXVI | 47 |
LXXVII | 50 |
LXXVIII | 54 |
LXXIX | 58 |
LXXX | 62 |
LXXXI | 66 |
LXXXII | 70 |
LXXXIII | 73 |
LXXXIV | 75 |
LXXXV | 78 |
LXXXVI | 82 |
LXXXVII | 86 |
LXXXVIII | 88 |
LXXXIX | 92 |
XC | 96 |
XCI | 100 |
XCII | 102 |
XCIII | 111 |
XCIV | 116 |
CIII | 221 |
CV | 261 |
CVI | 276 |
CVIII | 285 |
CIX | 293 |
CX | 311 |
CXI | 319 |
CXII | 327 |
CXIII | 333 |
CXV | 341 |
CXVI | 348 |
CXVII | 360 |
CXVIII | 367 |
CXX | 375 |
CXXI | 382 |
CXXII | 384 |
CXXIII | 388 |
CXXV | 405 |
CXXVI | 416 |
CXXVIII | 424 |
CXXIX | 431 |
CXXXI | 444 |
CXXXII | 452 |
CXXXIII | 465 |
CXXXIV | 475 |
CXXXV | 479 |
CXXXVI | 484 |
CXXXVII | 489 |
CXXXVIII | 492 |
CXXXIX | 499 |
CXL | 504 |
CXLI | 514 |
CXLII | 519 |
CXLIII | 530 |
CXLIV | 537 |
CXLV | 540 |
CXLVI | 544 |
CXLVII | 546 |
CXLVIII | 549 |
CXLIX | 582 |
CL | 591 |
CLI | 594 |
CLII | 596 |
CLIII | 598 |
CLIV | 599 |
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Page 16 - Death, be not proud . . ." Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...
Page 262 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 105 - Or wash it if it must be drowned no more: But oh it must be burnt! alas the fire Of lust and...
Page 14 - All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes Shall behold God and never taste death's woe. But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space, For if above all these my sins abound, 'Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace, When we are there; here on this lowly ground, Teach me how to repent; for that's as good As if Thou hadst seal'd my pardon with Thy blood.
Page 362 - There is no health in my flesh, because of thy displeasure : neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sin.
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Page 107 - Thou art slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then ? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Page 107 - Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
Page 11 - As due by many titles I resign Myself to thee, O God, first I was made By thee, and for thee, and when I was decayed Thy blood bought that, the which before was thine; I am thy son, made with thyself to shine, Thy servant, whose pains thou hast still repaid.