tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20859305.post116114353896763417..comments2006-10-19T00:06:57.166-05:00Comments on The-Poetry-Place: A Valediction, forbidding Mourning, by John DonneStephen Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16207641562001375125noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20859305.post-1161232161167032982006-10-18T23:29:00.000-05:002006-10-18T23:29:00.000-05:00My favorite poems by Donne: NEGATIVE LOVE....My favorite poems by Donne:<BR/><BR/> NEGATIVE LOVE.<BR/> by John Donne<BR/><BR/>I never stoop'd so low, as they<BR/>Which on an eye, cheek, lip, can prey;<BR/>Seldom to them which soar no higher<BR/>Than virtue, or the mind to admire.<BR/>For sense and understanding may<BR/>Know what gives fuel to their fire;<BR/>My love, though silly, is more brave;<BR/>For may I miss, whene'er I crave,<BR/>If I know yet what I would have.<BR/><BR/>If that be simply perfectest,<BR/>Which can by no way be express'd<BR/>But negatives, my love is so.<BR/>To all, which all love, I say no.<BR/>If any who deciphers best,<BR/>What we know not—ourselves—can know,<BR/>Let him teach me that nothing. This<BR/>As yet my ease and comfort is,<BR/>Though I speed not, I cannot miss.<BR/><BR/><BR/>And this one:<BR/><BR/>BATTER my heart, three person'd God; for, you <BR/>As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; <BR/>That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee,'and bend <BR/>Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new. <BR/>I, like an usurpt towne, to'another due, <BR/>Labour to'admit you, but Oh, to no end, <BR/>Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend, <BR/>But is captiv'd, and proves weake or untrue. <BR/>Yet dearely'I love you,'and would be loved faine, <BR/>But am betroth'd unto your enemie: <BR/>Divorce mee,'untie, or breake that knot againe; <BR/>Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I <BR/>Except you'enthrall mee, never shall be free, <BR/>Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee.Arturo Vasquezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09674281914540496859noreply@blogger.com