No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
          (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, no. 6)

1. Air and Angels
2. The Anagram
3. An Anatomy of the World (The First Anniversary) (excerpt)
4. The Anniversary
5. Antiquary
6. The Apparition
7. The Autumnal
8. The Bait
9. The Blossom
10. The Bracelet
11. Break of Day
12. The Broken Heart
13. A Burnt Ship
14. Cales and Guyana
15. The Calm
16. The Canonization
17. Community
18. The Comparison
19. The Computation
20. Confined Love
21. The Curse
22. The Damp
23. Disinherited
24. The Dissolution
25. The Dream
26. The Ecstasy
27. Elegy IX: The Autumnal
28. Elegy V: His Picture
29. Epitaph on Himself
30. The Expiration
31. Fall of a Wall
32. Farewell to Love
33. The Fever
34. The Flea
35. The Funeral
36. Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
37. The Good-morrow
38. Hero and Leander
39. His Picture
40. Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
41. Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God
42. Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
43. Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
44. Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
45. Holy Sonnets: Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear
46. Holy Sonnets: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
47. Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene
48. Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
49. Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
50. A Hymn to God the Father
51. A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany
52. [Image and Dream]
53. The Indifferent
54. Jealousy
55. A Jet Ring Sent
56. Klockius
57. A Lame Begger
58. A Lecture upon the Shadow
59. The Legacy
60. The Liar
61. A Licentious Person
62. Lovers' Infiniteness
63. Love's Alchemy
64. Love's Deity
65. Love's Diet
66. Love's Exchange
67. Love's Growth
68. Love's Progress
69. Love's Usury
70. Manliness
71. Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
72. The Message
73. Nagative Love
74. Niobe
75. A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
76. An Obscure Writer
77. Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary (excerpt)
78. On His Mistress
79. The Paradox
80. The Perfume
81. Phryne
82. The primrose
83. The Prohibition
84. Pyramus and Thisbe
85. Raderus
86. Ralphius
87. [Recusancy]
88. The Relic
89. Satire III
90. Satire IV (excerpt)
91. A Self Accuser
92. Sir John Wingefield
93. Song: Go and catch a falling star
94. Song ("Stay, O sweet, and do not rise")
95. Song: Sweetest love, I do not go
96. The Sun Rising
97. To His Mistress Going to Bed
98. To Mr. I. L.
99. To Mr. Rowland Woodward
100. To Mr. S. B.
101. To Mr. T. W. [Pregnant again with th'old twins, Hope and Fear...]
102. To Sir Henry Goodyere
103. To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going Ambassador to Venice
104. To Sir Henry Wotton [Here's no more news, than virtue: I may as well...]
105. To Sir Henry Wotton [Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls...]
106. To the Countess of Bedford [Madam, Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right...]
107. To the Countess of Bedford [To have written then, when you writ, seem'd to me ...]
108. The Triple Fool
109. [Tutelage]
110. Twicknam Garden
111. The Undertaking
112. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
113. A Valediction: of My Name in the Window
114. A Valediction: of the Book
115. A Valediction: of Weeping
116. The Will
117. Witchcraft by a Picture
118. Woman's Constancy

Notes on Life and Works

All the poems by Donne included here, except "The First Anniversary" (1611) and "The Second Anniversary" (1612), were first published, after Donne's death, in the 1633 or 1635 editions of Poems, by J. D. Most of the non-religious poems may have been written by the time he was twenty-five.

Biographical information

Given name: John
Family name: Donne
Birth date: 1572
Death date: 31 March 1631
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: John Donne
          mother: Elizabeth Donne
          wife: Anne Donne (from December 1600)
          son: George Donne
          son: John Donne
          daughter: Constance Alleyn Harvey
          daughter: Margaret Bowles
          daughter: Elizabeth Donne
          daughter: Bridget Gardiner
Languages
          English
          French
          Italian
          Spanish
Education
          Hart Hall, Oxford: 23 October 1584
          Thavies Inn: 1591
          Lincoln's Inn: 6 May 1592
Religions
          Anglican
          Roman Catholic: 1573
Honours
          M.A., Oxford: 10 October 1610
          Gold medal, commemoration of the Synod of Dort: 19 December 1619
Patron: Lucy Harrington, Countess of Bedford
Literary period: Seventeenth century
Occupation: Divine
Residences
          Mitcham
          London: 1573
          Pyrford: 1600 to 1604
          Peckham: 1604
Illness: Typhoid fever: November 1623
Buried at: St. Paul's
First RPO edition: 1997