The Poetical Works of Dr John Donne Author:John Donne General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: Little Brown and Co. Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It... more » has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TO SIR HENRY GOODYERE. Who makes the past a pattern for next year, Turns no new leaf, but still the same things reads, Seen things he sees again, heard things doth hear, And makes his life but like a pair of beads. A palace, when 'tis that which it should be, Leaves growing, and stands such, or else decays ; But he which dwells there is not so; for he Strives to urge upward, and his fortune raise. So had your body her morning, hath her noon, And shall not better; her next change is night: But her fair larger guest, to whom sun and moon Are sparks, and short-lived, claims another right. The noble soul by age grows lustier, Her appetite and her digestion mend; We must not starve, nor hope to pamper her With woman's milk and pap unto the end. Provide you manlier diet; you have seen All libraries, which are schools, camps and courts; But ask your garners if you have not been In harvests too indulgent to your sports. For. last. Would you redeem it ? Then yourself transplant Awhile from hence. Perchance outlandish ground Bears no more wit than ours; but yet more scant Are those diversions there, which here abound. To be a stranger hath that benefit, We can beginnings, but not habits choke : Go, whither ? hence; you get, if you forget; New faults, till they prescribe in us, are smoke. Our soul, whose country's Heaven, and God her father, Into this world, corruption's sink, is se...« less